[Leica] Re: Leica 3rd quarter Results

["Kone Moriamou" <Mkone@utopia.poly.edu>]

Th approximate figures reported by a VIP at Leica were:

R bodies: 7,000/annum
M bodies: 15,000/annum

I suspect these numbers are inflated a bit.

Now I hope you understand why new products are so few and far between.

Regards,
Akhil
- -----Original Message-----
From: Tom Burke <tom@thbtotley.co.uk>
Date: Friday, March 02, 2001 2:53 PM
Subject: RE: Leica 3rd quarter Results


>
>Xavier Colmant wrote:
>
>> How long Leica will be able to maintain the R line?
>
>But how great are the volumes? If, for example, the R range was selling
>an order of magnitude more than M, then that drop, while bad news, would
>not be enough to kill the line - it would stil be selling in quantity.
>
>Do we know what the actual sales volumes are for each line? I should
>have thought that one problem with the M line, from Leica's point of
>view, is that there are so many of them out there, still working
>perfectly and not that different from the current model. I wonder what
>the turnover of second-hand M's is, compared to sales of new
>M6-TTLs.....
>
>Tom Burke