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made an unsolicited offer to buy the company, but Banta's management considered it hostile. (Banta's stock price had recently fallen after the disastrous August 2006 earning call when
Streeter announced Banta was going to refocus on print instead of supply chain and when questioned about the shift
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she replied "we didn't see it coming" - from the low $ 40s in late July; it closed at a penny under $ 34 on August 8, but the news shot the price up to $ 46 the following day.) Instead, it accepted a $ 1.3 billion offer from major competitor
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