Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I was just wondering if all of this stock will be floated or if a preferred
buyer is already available. Say, for example, a buyer that would have an
interest
in use of Leica technology (lenses ?) and in change of existing dealership
agreements.
Regards,
Roland.
--- "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@comcast.net> wrote:
> The alleged infusion of capital is to come from the sale of stock...Makes
> sense - after having your stock price drop through the floor, have your
> survival depend upon selling $25 million worth of new stock - but first
> raise your prices so that investors can see they are buying into a company
> that thinks it can stay afloat by selling rangefinder film cameras
> essentially unchanged since 1954 for $3200 a pop! Good sound business
> model.
>
>
> On 6/6/05 1:33 PM, "Der Eiserne Reiter" <ferider@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Funnily enough, the monkey story was also told by German author Wilhelm
> > Busch.
> >
> > Does anybody have a guess what the new dealership agreements will look
> > like ?
> > Also, why did the relationship with Panasonic not work out ?
> > Where will the money for the capital increase come from ?
> >
> > Just a few thoughts ...
> >
> > Roland.
> >
> > --- Feli <feli2@earthlink.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On Jun 6, 2005, at 9:21 AM, Slobodan Dimitrov wrote:
> >>
> >>> You never lived in Germany, have you. In the mini series Shaka Zulu,
> >>> there is a scene where a story is recounted on how to catch monkeys
> >>> with a gourd. You place something shiny in it for the monkey to grab.
> >>> The monkey doesn't know that letting go of the object would free it's
> >>> hand thus saving it from capture. It sure seems like a prescient
> >>> parable about Leica.
> >>> Slobodan Dimitrov
> >>
> >> Actually I grew up in Germany. I lived there for almost half my life,
> >> so I am intimately familiar with the idiosyncrasies of the culture.
> >>
> >> Raising prices is a stupid idea, but it's not an entirely unexpected
> >> move.
> >> ;-)
> >>
> >> feli
> >>>
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