Well. seeing that West Marien owns (or is owned by) Port Supply, and
bought out E&B Marine (which is still functional) and lord knows who
else is involved.

I'd say that West Marine is a "conglomerate" if not part of one....


Dave wrote:
As I suspected--a classic example of empty-headed blathering of buzzwords
with no knowledge of that the words mean. I'd suggest a quick search of the
term "conglomerate."