I think some grown up people are quite naive if they fail to realize that what drives ALL business IS money. Unless you have a non-for profit organization. Change of ownership sometime fail, but in most cases it does grow business, or brings business back to life. Having the ex-CEO of the company investing in it as a investor group leader, seems to be a good thing in my opinion. He knows what he is getting into, and he did lead a company that was successful, he would not invest in something if he would think it will fail. There is a place in the market for Horizon, and they have a nice share of this market. They will be around, no doubt.
Gerry