Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/06
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Americans to consider buying a new Leica.
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Sent: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 11:56:44 +0100
From: Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp@gmx.de>
To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>, LEG <leica@freelists.org>,
LeicaReflex <LeicaReflex@freelists.org>, MUG <MUGers@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [Leica] Bad news at Leica
> Morning all,
>
> Get out and buy M8s and lots of lenses!! :-)
>
> The local paper here in Hannover reports that Leica is running at a loss
> again.
>
> After moderate profits last year, the company made a net loss of 7.2
> milliion euros in the first half of the financial year 2008/2009 (in the
> same period of the previous year, they made a net profit of 6.5 million).
>
> Total revenues fell in the same period by more than 40 MEUR to 52 MEUR.
>
> A company spokesman reported that the figures are due to falling sales
> and development investments.
>
> Best from Hannover
> Douglas
>
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