[durasell]

Just remember, we're not talking about a company like Johnson & Johnson, we're talking about a country that has people/cheap labor coming out of its ears.

[Publius Valerius]

That's fine, but it would have to have the expertise to match the distribution system of, say, Wal-Mart, which it doesn't if it's a manufacturer. And query as to why it would want to invest that kind of capital in such a risky venture when it can continue to make a lot of money simply by selling to Wal-Mart. The profits really wouldn't be that much better than what they would be by selling to a distributer, so why take the risk? How do you justify that to your shareholders? Or a government ownership group?