Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/21
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That's not true. A lot of German corporations refuse to trade American-style
transparency for the ability to trade on the U.S. market. The standards for
trading stocks publicly in Germany are quite low compared to ours. Or so says
my Bavarian friend working at Andersen Consulting in Munich.
In a message dated 1/21/00 2:30:46 AM, chucko@siteconnect.com writes:
<< Leica's a publicly-traded corporation, so any buy-out or merger offer would
have been announced to the public---I don't think German law is any
different from American law in that respect.
Chuck Albertson
Seattle, Wash.
>
> If I were to guess, I would say that Leica has been
> bought out by or merged into another company, or a
> change in top management is about to occur.
>
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Subject: RE: [Leica] Something BIG is happening
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 22:09:02 -0800
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