Listeria monocytogenes, for example, is a microbe that actually grows happily at refrigerator temperatures and is thus delighted with the new popularity of mass-produced foods that sit on refrigerator shelves in tidy plasticcartons.
Monti killed that deal on a theory called conglomeratization: By buying a maker of machinery that produces rival plastic bottles, Tetra Laval could in a few years leverage its lead position in cartons to also control plastic alternatives (glass bottles and tin cans are the packaging products still out of Tetra Laval's reach).