>From: "John Celio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Hoya owns and maintains a lot of brands, and there's no reason to think >they'd let a venerable brand like Pentax wither away just for kicks & >grins. > >John >
There's no reason to, but then there's Contax, Leica, Olympus, Minolta, Mamiya (maybe)... none of them took deliberate missteps but they are either huting or non-existent because of them. In the future Hoya Pentax will do as all businesses do, try to maximize profit, either by decreasing costs and increasing sales or by cutting losses and focussing on the more profitable parts of the business. Who knows how this will play out? For now, Pentax may have access to capital and relatively cheap glass. Tom C. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
