Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/03/01

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: M6 Suggestion Box...
From: msmall@roanoke.infi.net (Marc James Small)
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 23:05:17 -0500
Cc: thodge@charweb.org

Leica is no longer Swiss owned and this involvement was, in fact, of quite
brief duration.  The Wild concern, which finally bought the Leitz family out
in the early 1980's, was itself bought out by a Brit firm, Cambridge PLC, in
the late 1980's;  the Leica camera factory (Solms) management, in turn,
bought the factory from Cambridge in 1992 or so.  Thus, Leica is actually
self-owned again, for all intents and purposes, though they continue to
market together with the rest of the Leica group.

Marc
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