Mercury wasn't acquired in a merger. It was a brand Edsel Ford developed to try to fill the niche between Ford and Lincoln. At times it has been very successful and is actually doing fairly well now with Milan and Mariner. It has survived more than seventy years. Paul On Dec 22, 2006, at 3:09 AM, P. J. Alling wrote:
> I certainly hope it works out better for Pentax than it's worked out > for > Mercury. > > John Celio wrote: >>> Well, guys, say goodbye to Pentax. My experience is this never does >>> the >>> smaller company any good. It winds up just be a name the bigger >>> company >>> uses for awhile with 3rd party products. Seems the doom sayers were >>> right and the rest of us wrong. >>> >> >> And yet here you are, becoming a "doom sayer." I seriously doubt >> Pentax is >> going away. It'll just be part of a larger company now, like Mercury >> is a >> part of Ford. Pentax will continue to make cameras as they always >> have, >> only now they have help from their new in-house partners, all of whom >> deal >> with camera-related equipment already. >> >> 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 >> >> -- >> http://www.neovenator.com >> http://www.cafepress.com/neovenatorphoto >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Things should be made as simple as possible -- but no simpler. > --Albert Einstein > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
