Pros
The company was built by people who understood the markets and created innovative products that greatly advanced the business mostly during the 1990s and early 2000s.
Cons
The CEO was the 3rd generation of the original owner and senior management mostly consisted of his college friends. They made some good decisions but overall none of them would have elevated higher than middle management in any other corporation. The final death blow that forced the sale to CPI was their purchase of a warehouse full of Chinese ATMs that the company had no core competency to sell and support. Not to mention they entered a 30+ year old declining market. The CEO was forced into a Co-CEO position about a year prior to the sale probably to help guide the family out of a pending financial catastrophe.
