They sold the company they held since 1924 some 83 years for something in the range for 40 million. And a piss poor dounut and coffee shop, a while back sold for 40 million and he didn't have that many stores when Lew Horton's bought it. Not a whole lot of money when you really get down to it. Connecticut has become real anti business and manafacturing the last 40 or so years. And maybe they just got tired of all of it. Or maybe there was nobody else in the family to take over the business. Either way It was there company and guess what till we go Communist in the US, they had every right to do what ever they wanted with it. Heck Micro Soft just offered 48 billion for Yahoo! 40 million is chump change when you get right down to it. It will not even buy you a G-V.