Clarke Distribution Files Suit Against Thermador

Clarke Distribution of New England has filed an injunction against Bosch-Siemens Home Appliance over the canceling of Clarke's distributorship of Thermador and Gaggenau.  Clarke is deep into Sub-Zero's pants so why is a distributor with no long term BSH prospects suing BSH?  We have theories:

• Sub-Zero has not yet ramped up production of all the pretty appliances that Wolf just launched.  Clarke needs to sell something.
• Rumor has it that ex-BSH President Reinhart Metzger gave a verbal promise to cover Clarke's expenses for quality related product change-outs but the new management of BSH is failing to follow through.
• A more machiavellian but less likely reason could be to give Clarke 3 or 4 months to strangle Thermador sales during the Wolf launch.  We doubt this one.  Clarke folks are good folks.

LATE UPDATE OF DECEMBER 14:  BSH has reached an out of court settlement with Clarke, in which money changed hands.  We wish we knew the details of all of this.