Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]ITT? The 60s? DITA BEARD!!!!!! :-) - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Christer Almqvist Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 4:07 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Voigtländer question >At 08:50 PM 7/30/03 +0200, Christer Almqvist wrote: >>Perhaps the family should have focused more on running the business >>than on how people spell their name? > >The family had not owned the company for thirty years when this press >release was issued They sold out at a premium early-on and have missed >the entire problem with the conversion to digital. (To be honest, a >number of the Voigtländer family are employed by Rolleiflex, and there >were a number of intermarriages between the Voigtländer and Franke and >Heidecke >families.) > >Marc Why on earth did they worry about the spelling of the company name at all then? Thirty years after they had sold it. While working for ITT in the sixties, a period when ITT bought a large number of family owned businesses, I came across a few guys who thought they could have both the money and a say in the company the just had sold. It seldom took them more than thirty DAYS to realize that things don't work like that even if you have been given a seat on the board a funny title like consultant or something like that (usually to keep the selling price down, we always thought). Thirty years... Chris - -- Christer Almqvist D 20255 Hamburg and / or F 50590 Regnéville sur Mer please look at my NEW b+w pictures at: http://www.almqvist.net/chris/dozen/ old pictures still at: http://www.almqvist.net/chris/new - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html