I automatically distrust any company/group/organization whose entire approach is to buy out a number of smaller groups in order to establish themselves in a business space. This isn't the actions of a company driven by a care for the industry, it's the actions of a company that wants to profit as hard as possible at all expenses and seeks to control enough resources to try to make themselves unavoidable to any other competitors that aren't under their umbrella.
As is standard, I hope they burn down, literally. Monopolists should get the firing squad every time. It never benefits consumers in the end.