Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/09

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Digital M
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 17:11:33 -0500

Good catch, Jerry - But the point remains the same - The company has
already been acquired and it appears not to have been saved. The only
thing that will save the company is producing quality products - which
it does - for which there is a strong market - which it does not now do.
;-)

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Jerry
Lehrer
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 4:05 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Digital M


BD

Wadda ya mean "forgetting"?  He clearly stated Hermes as the current
acquirer.

Jerry

"B. D. Colen" wrote:

> Aren't we forgetting that Leica has already been merged/acquired once 
> - by the scarf and handbag people.... ;-)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Frank 
> Filippone
> Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 1:29 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Digital M
>
> A corporate merger or acquisition would save Leica.  Who is interested

> in a niche market player in an area that is changing tremendously away

> from the
> market niche?    Hasselblad is now owned by a foreign conglomerate /
> distributor.  They were in my opinion, much more mainstream than 
> Leica. A takeover would be interesting, but I foresee that like 
> Hermes, the acquirer will be interested in the name, not throwing $$$ 
> at the company to make it viable.
>
> Back to my ideas.....  Outsourcing digital bodies and offering Leica 
> glass for Nikon and Canon and Minolta and, and, and bodies.
>
> Frank Filippone
> red735i@earthlink.net
>
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