I saw a link to this was posted by Ned Bunnell on his blog last night. >From The Pentaximaging.com site: "LETTER TO PENTAX CUSTOMERS October 31, 2007 To our customers,
On October 29, 2007, HOYA Corporation and PENTAX Corporation, a consolidated subsidiary of HOYA announced that we have entered into a merger agreement with respect to a merger which will become effective on March 31, 2008. Following the merger, based on the common core technological foundation in optics, imaging, and materials, the new company will optimize its business portfolios, focusing on the life care, optics, information technology, eye care, imaging system areas. All PENTAX business divisions will be optimized within the same framework of the HOYA's other business divisions to strengthen its business. By doing so, better communication, prompt management decision, and proper resource allocation will be assured. We continue to devote our efforts to make even more outstanding the PENTAX brand even after the merger. PENTAX promises to provide more satisfactory products and service to our customers. So, we will ask your continuous support to PENTAX Corporation and the HOYA Corporation following the merger. Yours Sincerely, Nobuaki Tanishima Ned Bunnell President President PENTAX Corporation PENTAX Imaging Company 2-36-9,Maeno-cho 600 12th Street Suite 300 Itabashi-ku Golden, Colorado 80401 Tokyo 174-8639,Japan TEL: 303-799-8000 TEL: 81-3-3960-5151 FAX: 81-3-3960-5226" -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
