Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Do any of the fanboys want to explain to the more skeptical amongst us what >in all of yesterday's releases and PR blather suggest that the company is >taking a new tack that will give it a better chance to survive? Where's the >real news? B.D. Short term is OK as they've got money for survive. Long term they will be successfully if input in the company less the output along time is positive. That's if the sales opportunities are enough for getting profits. For increasing sales they need offer what people demand or create new necessities. Even Mercedes understood that and produced A small cars and so did BMW with compacts and most film companies are making a good change to digital. If there is not such sales opportunities or they cannot create them more and more money is just driven to the drain. More sales opportunities does mean look for new customers if the old ones do not guarantee affair figures that can produce profitability. If a M digital is not able of creating sales figures like that the project must be abandoned however this could be disgusting for us. New products with right marketing strategies need to be launched -if they got the enough RD for their development- and Leica people has to be trained in new industrial and commercial strategies. Someone in the list spoke about the members that wish not a good future for Leica. I sincerely believe that all of us will want a good future for them. The concern is that some of us do not believe that Leica -as a company- has the human resources and the flexibility for doing that and -accordingly- the future of the company is uncertain. I'd wish I was wrong. Regards Felix