On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 10:12:25AM +0530, Bipin Gupta wrote: > Tom, sorry, to you and Paul again. Our childhood Folklore tells us Two > Sticks tied together are stronger than One. Obviously Two Businesses > amalgamated as one builds on the strengths of each other. > Your "Bastards" at Ricoh had a better choice: kept their dominance by > changing PENTAX - Ricoh to RICOH - Pentax, instead of throwing PENTAX > out completely.
I think you're overreacting a bit. This bit of history from the link mentioned earlier shows that Pentax has been the company name for all of about five of it's 60 year history. ...... : And, in fact, the Pentax name has been "just" a brand for most of its life, so in some ways this is a return the status quo. Here's a breakdown of how the Pentax name has been used over the years. Pre-1954, Pentax was a brand name of VEB Zeiss Ikon. (The name was formed as a contraction of "pentaprism", and Zeiss Ikon's Contax brand). >From 1954 until 2002, Pentax became a brand of Asahi Optical, after the latter >purchased the name. >From 2002 to 2007, Pentax was adopted as the company name for the first time >in its history. >From 2007 to 2011, Pentax returned to brand status under new owner Hoya. In 2011, it became a company in its own right again, but only briefly, before becoming Pentax Ricoh Imaging. By the way, one of my Bangaloran coworkers, who has a D5100 said that he wanted to buy a Pentax, but just couldn't get them in India. > What was gained? But much was LOST. > Paul, Paul, were you the smartest amongst Yeshuas Disciples? > I am still left scratching my head, even with my donkey years at the > corporate helm. > Regards. > Bipin - from that far away enchanting land. > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
