Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/09

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Digital M
From: "Frank Filippone" <red735i@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 10:29:27 -0800

A corporate merger or acquisition would save Leica.  Who is interested in a
niche market player in an area that is changing tremendously away from the
market niche?    Hasselblad is now owned by a foreign conglomerate /
distributor.  They were in my opinion, much more mainstream than Leica.   A
takeover would be interesting, but I foresee that like Hermes, the acquirer
will be interested in the name, not throwing $$$ at the company to make it
viable.

Back to my ideas.....  Outsourcing digital bodies and offering Leica glass
for Nikon and Canon and Minolta and, and, and bodies.

Frank Filippone
red735i@earthlink.net


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