When Slow Growth Is Not an Option, Make a Full-Speed Assault

The Globe and Mail, Derek DeCloet, 16 July 2005Bill Ryan has a little list. He keeps 10 or 15 names on it, each one a competitor he would like to conscript in TD Banknorth Inc.'s march across the northeastern United States.A small New Jersey-based bank named Hudson United Bancorp has been on Mr. Ryan's list for years. So in March, when he ran into Hudson chief executive officer Ken Neilson at a