I will gladly fund a few chewy brews if it gets the job done ... and a few wee
drams to boot!
Earl
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On 8/29/2004 at 7:02 PM Chris Barker wrote:
>I suspect you and he are right John.
>
>I noted from one of the news reports that Ilford is owned by a Venture
>Capital company. It is therefore likely that it will divest itself of
>Ilford to a less shareholder-minded concern. In many ways the UK-US
>culture of short-term shareholder satisfaction over long-term
>investment is the curse of our businesses. It is difficult to see how
>they could not make Ilford profitable (£40m loss last year), but a
>turnround artist should do the trick. I even had a daydream of doing
>it myself a couple of days ago. A neighbour is a company doctor who
>buys ailing companies cheaply and he tells me his techniques every now
>and then. I might go and buy him a chewy beer ... ;-)
>
>Chris
>On 29 Aug 2004, at 17:31, JOHN DUGGAN wrote:
>
>> Came back from a holiday in the States to about 2000!!
>> Olympus messages. Waded through them over a period of
>> 3 evenings...to learn that Ilford seems to be in
>> trouble :-(( Major upset as I love B+W and the money
>> I had saved for camera equipment :-) has just been
>> "invested" in a Leica M6 plus a Voigtlander body as
>> backup!
>> Talking to my friendly camera dealer has
>> re-assured me somewhat. His comments are that the
>> Ilford Galerie digital papers are market leaders. He
>> also thinks that their films and Multi-Grade papers
>> are so good that "someone will make them " even if
>> Ilford do not. I just hope he is right...
>>
>>
>> =====
>> Regards
>> John Duggan,
>> Wales, UK
>>
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