Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/06

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Re: Leica and Hasselblad
From: "Roger Beamon" <roger@beamon.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 14:05:06 -0700

On 6 Sep 99, Marc James Small wrote, at least in part:

> At 02:56 PM 9/6/1999 -0400, Paul T Collura wrote:
> >
> >I thought that Rollei was bought by Samsung, the Korean Conglomerate.
> That would not make
> >them independent.
> 
> Well, they are independent.  The decisions which affect them are made in
> Braunschweig, not Seoul.  Samsung has been quite wonderful about giving
> Rollei much greater freedom than they enjoyed under Manderman.

Hmm, wonder what Bob Salomon would have to say about this?

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