Thermo Electron Corp

Thermo Electron Corp.,the biggest maker of measurement instruments for medical laboratories,agreed to buy the radiation-monitoring products unit of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain for $30 million to gain European customers.Saint-Gobain (of France) is Europe's number 1 distributor of building materials,and its radiation monitoring unit did not support the company's mission statement.This means that:

A) Thermo Electron does not have a mission statement.
B) the radiation monitoring unit was a cash cow.
C) Saint-Gobain's mission dealt with providing building materials to its customers,not radiation measuring equipment.
D) Thermo Electron's mission statement was incomplete.
E) Saint-Gobain's mission statement was too broad.

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