Konica Minolta Canada was a wholly owned subsidiary of KM. They've now
got a Independant Distributer, but before it was directly owned.
-Adam
graywolf wrote:
First Minolta bought Textronics which made them broke. Then Konica
bought Minolta which probably made them broke. Wonder who will buy
Konica now? <GRIN>
OTOH, probably the only reason that they are not available in Canada is
that the independent distributor went belly up. As soon as they find a
new one they will most likely be back. This kind of thing happens in
markets too small for the company to set up their own distributorship.
Even in the US, remember when Honeywell was the Pentax distributor? When
they went out of the photography business Pentax had to take over
themselves. The US was too big a market to ignor.
graywolf
http://www.graywolfphoto.com
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P. J. Alling wrote:
Apparently Konolta is in worse shape than we thought. (Now here's
something to start a stampede away from a brand name).
Christian wrote:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0510/05100302nokmdcs_4ca.asp
"Sales and distribution of Digital/35mm cameras, film scanners,
binoculars, photo meters, and their accessories will however cease in
Canada."
What did the Canucks do this time? ;-) "No soup for you!"
Christian
