Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Noctilux Canada or Germany? > Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20010227120737.00942500@pop.infi-net.mindspring.com> > References: > > At 11:09 AM 2/27/2001 -0500, Steve LeHuray wrote: > >Mercedes now > >owns Chrysler an American company. > > Another minor nit: it would be safer to say that Daimler, the mother > company, owns both Mercedes and Chrysler. The deal was a merger, in any > event, not a buy-out. > > Marc Not really. Daimler bought out Chrysler lock, stock and barrel. See Bill Vlassic and Bradley A. Stertz's excellent book, "Taken for a Ride: How Daimler-Benz drove off with Chrysler" for fascinating story of this so-called "merger." Jim Bielecki