Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/11/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]They have raised PE money from Blackstone mainly to 'expand', i.e.open Leica stores, in Emerfing Markets, mainly China for the time being. This is why prices are going up in my view - Blackstone wants to maximise profits in the short to medium term so that exit would not be an issue - so to this end they are starting to price the product, not at what can sustain sales over a long period, but at what the market can bear right now. As for the long term implications, as Keynes pointed out long ago, in the long term we are all dead.(-: Cheers Jayanand On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:38 AM, dnygr <dnygr at cshore.com> wrote: > When companies start to raise their prices outrageously higher, it > sometimes reflects that the end is near. What one is seeing is a milking of > a cash cow and lasts until the cow is dry. Then the company folds. That > business model does not seem to fit Leica, but.... > Is there any truth to the rumor that Leica is going to follow Apple's > model and start openign "Leica Stores?" > Cheers, > Doug > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >