Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] film is dieing..... according to Kodak at least
From: Nathan Wajsman <belgiangator@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 08:16:19 -0800 (PST)

Duane,

Film may be dying, or it may not, but Kodak's woes
have little to do with it. If the problems in their
film business were due to digital, then their digital
business should be doing well, right? Well, it is
losing lots of money. If the reason is competition
from Fuji, then it is just poor execution on Kodak's
part. Let us remember that management of a struggling
company will always try to blame poor performance on
external factors. Current favorites on both sides of
the Atlantic include:

- - bad weather
- - good weather
- - the weak Euro
- - the strong dollar
- - unfair competition from the other side of the ocean
- - the apparent slowdown in the US economy 

and so on. Anything except poor or poorly executed
business strategy.

Nathan


- --- Birkey <dbirkey@uio.telconet.net> wrote: > Film is
slowly dying..... according to Kodak at
> least... I was watching
> MSNBC over lunch the other day and they mentioned
> how Kodak said that their
> profits and film sales were down.... part to
> competition from Fuji etc...
> and part to digital...  Hence their stock price has
> dropped some...SNIP
> 

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