[Leica] Leica lens production

[hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson)]

And why not, since he put millions INTO the company???
But the reference in that report was that the minor shareholders
(represented by an 11 yr old girl at the meeting) requested that they not be
bought out and he has evidently agreed. The amount held by those others is
probably immaterial to the company's fortunes but taking the company private
presumably would have meant that the world could not see his financials.
Fair enough. In any event that is business or rather his business. I care
about the products. I have no clue what the dividends are nor looked.
I thought that I would just pass on those lens production figures for the
folks that are interested. I would guess that somebody like Canon or Nikon
would make those kinds of numbers in their morning tea breaks!

Cheers
Geoff

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On 17 August 2011 15:06, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> There are not many Leica shareowners, since Kaufmann owns more than 97% of
> the company. In that light, the dividend announcement simply means that he
> has decided to take around 5 million out of the company.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> On Aug 17, 2011, at 1:18 AM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:
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> > A member of the German part of the L Camera Forum posted this link to an
> > article from a local Wetzlar journal
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> http://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/topnews_aus_mittelhessen/543458_11-Jaehrige_fordert_Leica-Chef.html
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> > I just used Google to translate the general meaning and content for
> myself.
> > If you are a shareholder you got some good news I guess.
> >
> > One rather startling bit of information is that Leica Camera were
> completing
> > all of 63 lenses a day, now ramped up to 120 with plans to increase that
> to
> > 240 lenses.
> > That would be M and S together
> > These are tiny tiny numbers. I knew about and have seen the production
> > methods of course but seeing the actual numbers goes a long way to
> > explaining why the queues to get anything new at all are so slow
> following
> > the success of the M9.
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> > Cheers
> > Geoff
> >
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