Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sadf new Douglas, thanks for your information. I can be happy to keep an excellent Rolleiflex E Saludos Lluis El 23/07/2009, a las 1:15, Douglas Sharp escribi?: > Sad news > > Yesterday, the business section of the Hannoversche Allgemeine, our > local paper, reported that the last remaining employees of Franke & > Heidecke (formerly Rollei Fototechnik) in Braunschweig have now been > made redundant, > > The company filed insolvency in February and the liquidator now sees > little chance of the company recovering, as it has as good as no > assets (its premises are rented and the machinery is leased). > > He did, however, mention that certain parties are still interested > in maintaining the production of Rollei Professional cameras - who > they are was not disclosed, nor was how they intend to operate. > > Good news for the 16 apprentices at the factory, they have been > promised an opportunity to complete their apprenticeships at other > companies in the region. > > So, it looks like the professional segment of Rollei has now ended > its long history after a brave attempt to keep it afloat by messrs > Franke and Heidecke (descendants of the original founders of Rollei). > > The name of Rollei continues in the marketing organisation that was > spun off a few years ago to market Rollei-branded digitals > manufactured in Asia and moved to Berlin. > > Douglas > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information Lluis Ripoll luisripoll at telefonica.net http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/ http://photo.net/photos/lluisripoll Blog: http://lluisripollphotography.wordpress.com/ http://www.lrmusic.es