Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/11/07

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Subject: [Leica] Kodak sold their digital division
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 19:45:02 -0600
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I also hope that is not the case in this instance.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 7:42 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Kodak sold their digital division


> Jim,
> Selling to private equity seldom is a winning situation. They are more
> concerned with stripping assets, or overloading the company with debt,
> paying themselves with the proceeds and moving on. Let us hope it is not 
> so
> in this case.
>
> Anyway: http://www.platinumequity.com/
>
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> 
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Dave.  From the tone of that article, it sounds like a win-win
>> situation.
>>
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Freedman" 
>> <dpfreedman at gmail.com>
>>
>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 6:22 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Kodak sold their digital division
>>
>>
>>
>>  http://www.kodak.com/ek/US/en/**Kodak_Sells_Image_Sensor_**
>>> Business_to_Platinum_Equity.**htm<http://www.kodak.com/ek/US/en/Kodak_Sells_Image_Sensor_Business_to_Platinum_Equity.htm>
>>>
>>> Dave F.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Was a buyer named anywhere in the article?  Leica, perhaps?
>>>>
>>>> Jim Nichols
>>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Forrest" <
>>>> photo.forrest at earthlink.net>
>>>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>>>> Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 5:59 PM
>>>> Subject: [Leica] Kodak sold their digital division
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