Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/08/16

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Subject: [Leica] Leica lens production
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:06:55 +0200
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There are not many Leica shareowners, since Kaufmann owns more than 97% of 
the company. In that light, the dividend announcement simply means that he 
has decided to take around 5 million out of the company.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
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YNWA











On Aug 17, 2011, at 1:18 AM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:

> A member of the German part of the L Camera Forum posted this link to an
> article from a local Wetzlar journal
> <
> http://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/topnews_aus_mittelhessen/543458_11-Jaehrige_fordert_Leica-Chef.html
>> 
> 
> I just used Google to translate the general meaning and content for myself.
> If you are a shareholder you got some good news I guess.
> 
> One rather startling bit of information is that Leica Camera were 
> completing
> all of 63 lenses a day, now ramped up to 120 with plans to increase that to
> 240 lenses.
> That would be M and S together
> These are tiny tiny numbers. I knew about and have seen the production
> methods of course but seeing the actual numbers goes a long way to
> explaining why the queues to get anything new at all are so slow following
> the success of the M9.
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers
> Geoff
> 
> *Izzy for Prime Minister!*
> *Model superstar*
> **
> 
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