On Tuesday, October 4, 2005, at 11:39 AM, 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.
Here's a link to the Forbes story:
http://www.forbes.com/afxnewslimited/feeds/afx/2005/09/07/
afx2212074.html
Bob
