While no one tracks reverse mergers, a half-dozen companies from the Middle Kingdom--ranging from health care products to manufacturers of power-steering assemblies (see table, p. 44)--havecompleted them since last year.
On the bright side, the company plans to hike the menu prices in the second half of the year which could help reverse this trend and widen the margins.
In New Hampshire, for example, where Grizzly candidate Kelly Ayotte won the Republican primary, she did so with a reverse gender gap: winning roughly half of male voters and only one-third of the state's Republican women.