>From "The Nikkei Business DailyJun/01/2007 10:06 GMT" "Hoya's Suzuki previously implied that a sell-off of the camera business could be imminent, but he indicated otherwise at the Thursday press conference. "We can afford the camera operation if we focus on particular fields," he said."
"Within Pentax, a project to bolster the camera operation is quietly under way with a new focus on highly profitable digital SLRs. To concentrate its limited resources on most promising items, it will freeze for the time being development of medium format digital cameras, which tend to be costly. Meanwhile, it will rebuild its compact digital camera operation by concentrating on higher-performance models, among other measures." "Hoya will begin takeover proceedings in early June, at which time the real battle for survival will begin for Pentax's camera operations." -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
