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Subject: [Leica] What did Hermes pay for Leica in 2002?
From: mak at teleport.com (mak@teleport.com)
Date: Thu Feb 17 17:01:35 2005

Wasn;t it in the $20M range and the prospects for Leica success have 
declined since then...

--Original Message-----
From: Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au>
Sent: Feb 17, 2005 4:09 PM
To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Solms LUG LHSA Buyout

I'd agree, we want influence not work !!!

On 18/02/2005, at 10:57 AM, Richard wrote:

> Nah, we don't need to buy the whole company. Should 10% or more give 
> us enough clout to effect company changes? So now we are down to $4000 
> each :-)
>
> At 03:06 PM 2/17/2005, Marc James Small wrote:
>> Simply lots of bucks.  We are a group of roughly 2,500 persons.  The
>> purchase price would be probably in the range of $100 million.  So, 
>> if each
>> of us kicked in, say, $40,000, the company would be ours.
>>
>> So, where do we send our $40,000?  And what do we get for it?
>>
>> Marc
>
> // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, 
> please use richard at imagecraft.com)
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