[Leica] Leica Camera AG could be bought by Chinese company

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

That just means the Blackstone is exiting, to be replaced by a Chinese
company. Possible, but from my contacts tell me, the Kaufmanns will sell
out, lock stock and barrel at the right price

Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 8:38 AM Sonny Carter via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> *I hit send too soon.  They felt it would be similar to the Mercedes Benz
> deal, not Chinese owned but significant investment, with Chinese holding
> nearly 20% of the parent company.*
>
>
> Regards,
> Sonny
> www.SonC.Com/Look
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2026 at 9:58 PM Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I saw a discussion on Petapixel regarding this, and they felt that not a
> > lot would change, that is, Leica would continue to be a hand built
> product
> > largely made in Germany.  That elevates Leica to the price points they
> ask
> > for the cameras and lenses.
> >
> > The speculation too was it seems more like it will be a buy in than a buy
> > out.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Sonny
> > www.SonC.Com/Look
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 9, 2026 at 9:39 PM Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <
> > lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> >
> >> It was inevitable, as Chinese tend to go overboard, like the Japanese of
> >> an
> >> era gone by, in paying for "trophy" aquisitions. I had heard from my
> >> investment banking contacts in London and Geneva that Leica had been put
> >> up
> >> for sale at the "right" (i.e. grossly overvalued) price.
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> Jayanand
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jun 10, 2026 at 12:13 AM Lluis Ripoll via LUG <
> >> lug at leica-users.org>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hello all,
> >> >
> >> > Did you hear something about this?
> >> >
> >> > <
> >> >
> >>
> https://www.notebookcheck.net/Bloomberg-Leica-Camera-AG-could-be-bought-by-Chinese-company.1313463.0.html
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> > Saludos
> >> > Lluis
> >> >
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