[Leica] Leica Solms LUG LHSA Buyout

[philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)]

Some very hard ball bargaining I suppose.


> From: <mak@teleport.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 09:44:36 -0800 (GMT-08:00)
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>, Leica Users Group
> <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica Solms LUG LHSA Buyout
> 
> Marc James Small and other Lawyers out there...could LHSA/LUG buy Leica? 
> What
> would it take?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Filippone <red735i@earthlink.net>
> Sent: Feb 17, 2005 9:36 AM
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica Solms reports 50% loss what does this mean?
> 
> Yes and no.  Deep doo-doo, yes; unhappy stockholders, yes; for sale, ? soon
> to be no more, kinda, not in its present form.  Something must change.
> 
> Hermes must have lost patience, or is losing patience.
> 
> Thought... a LUG buyout of Leica.  If we were successful.....
> 
> Marketing would be listening to the various forums to supply it with and
> respond to customer inputs,
> Worldwide Passport warranty service with Passport warrantees avbailable WW
> and serviced WW, no exceptions,
> I could have an MP with a rational rewind knob, at rational prices instead
> of gouged prices,
> Ted could have a Leica digital R body yesterday,
> Seth could have unlimited special editions in teeny tiny quantities,
> Doug could have the Canon bodies that Ted no longer needs,
> We could all have a digital M by contracting Cosina to do the deed.
> Nikon and Canon mount R Leica lenses would be available tomorrow, AF to
> follow,
> No more Null series bodies or other wacko ideas of past glory, that lose
> money,
> 
> Others?
> 
> 
> Frank Filippone
> red735i@earthlink.net
> 
> 
> 
>  He said that a salesman at Keeble-Shuchat told him Leica was on the 
> "block"
> soon to be no more...Does this financial announcement from Solms validate
> that comment?
> 
> 
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