On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 08:53:35AM -0500, Mark Roberts wrote: > Tom C wrote: > > >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 focusing on the more > profitable > >parts of the business. Who knows how this will play out? > > Probably like that horrible takeover when Mitsubishi bought Nikon <g>
Precisely. After all, Hoya have owned Tokina for quite some time, and doesn't exactly seem to have relegated Tokina to the scrap heap. Pentax cameras were already a small part of a large company with diversified interests. Now they will be a part of a comany of three times the size, but they should still continue to exist as an independent product line. The people who might be worried would be in the areas where there was duplication of function (such as the medical imaging area). That's where some of the more doom-and-gloom scenerios may play out. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
