We're all reading the same info so I suspect anything unclear is unclear to all.
It looks like Hoya is taking the medical stuff and Ricoh is taking the camera stuff. Details will likely emerge as we approach the scheduled takeover/conversion date in October. On Friday, July 1, 2011, John Celio <[email protected]> wrote: > Can anyone tell for certain if Hoya is keeping Pentax's medical division for > themselves? I'm pretty sure that's a big source of Pentax's revenue, and it > would really suck if they lost it. > > John > > -- > http://www.jacelio.com > -----Original Message----- From: Godfrey DiGiorgi > Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 12:23 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Is Ricoh Going to Buy Pentax???????? > > Seems to be a done deal by the Hoya press release. I just hope it's > not bad news for Ricoh owners. That would be an annoyance. > > On Thursday, June 30, 2011, P. J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ricoh left the SLR business years ago. I really hate to say this but, this > looks too much Konica buying up Minolta, and we all know how that turned out. > Minolta users were lucky that Sony was looking to enter the DSLR market. > > If Hoya wasn't big enough to keep Pentax a going concern, how the hell is > Ricoh going to do it? > > On 7/1/2011 1:35 AM, Miserere wrote: > > I'm not even joking! > > http://www.1001noisycameras.com/2011/06/ricoh-buying-pentax-according-to-reuters-japan-sources.html > > If true...wow.... > > > —M. > > \/\/o/\/\ --> http://WorldOfMiserere.com > > http://EnticingTheLight.com > A Quest for Photographic Enlightenment > > > > > -- > Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom! > > --Marvin the Martian. > > > -- > 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. > > > > -- > Godfrey > godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com > > -- > 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. > > -- > 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. > -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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.
