Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] multinationals
From: Bernard <4829.g23@g23.relcom.ru>
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 22:27:03 +0400

Guy Bennett wrote:

>
> it would be interesting to study the profit margins of such costume (or other)
> companies and compare them to actual consumer savings, and from the findings
> attempt to determine who was profitting most from this situation.
>
> i realize most consumers want 'the most for the least,' but it seems to me that
> this clichÈ is equally - if not more - true of those who cater to them. it seems
> that the companies are getting more most than the consumers.

Those companies which did not bend to consumer demand to move to cheap-labor areas,
have gone belly-up anytime during the past half century. Belly up = negative profit
margin. Moving abroad keeps the companies alive.

Bernard