[pure-silver] Re: AgfaPhoto Insolvency

Why not switched to someone left (like Ilford or Kodak), and support their
business before they also have a drop in sales? It doesn¹t help the industry
much if you make one dealer rich.
BTW, where is your Agfa Photo Club?





Regards



Ralph W. Lambrecht







On 2005-05-27 19:11, "Snoopy" <snoopy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Well, no more detailed news here. AGFA Photo was spun off the AGFA=20
> conglomerate in November of last year, a management buy-out for 175,5=20
> Million Euros (about 140 Million US dollars).
> 
> Apparently they had a massive caving in of film sales in the first quarter=
> =20
> of this year and this continued throughout April and May. Sales dropped by=
> =20
> over 18%...down to about 363 Million Euros (in 2004).
> 
> We at the AGFA Photo Club noticed because a lot of materialy were quietly=20
> being removed from the list, basically the Brovira Speed RC papers in fixed=
> =20
> gradation as well as fixed gradation baryt papers were gone. They only=20
> wanted to support multi-contrast (in RC anf FB).
> 
> Don=B4t know what will happen to Rodinal and the paper developers.
> 
> Incidentally I think this might also hit other film manufacturers because=20
> AGFA makes the 35mm-film CARTRIDGES for a lot of other film companies (also=
> =20
> Fuji, Kodak etc).
> 
> Me? I am going to buy a huge freezer and fill it with as much APX 100 as I=
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> can possibly fit. And another freezer for the paer I think...
> 
> Love
> Snoopy
> 
> At 15:13 27.05.2005, you wrote:
>> On 5/27/05, Claudio Bonavolta <claudio@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Not really good news from Agfa-Photo as they've announced insolvency.
>>> =3D20
>>> For those who read german (better than me and maybe can give more infos=
>  ?=3D
>> ):
>>> http://minilien.fr/a0jztp
>> 
>>    Well that really sucks. Ilford will be happy though.
>> 
>>    You can get a rough translation by piping the URL into:
>> http://www.google.ca/language_tools?hl=3D3Den
>> 
>>    But it's the same old story: "digital".
>> 
>>    *sigh*
>> 
>>    J
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --=3D20
>> Justin F. Knotzke
>> jknotzke@xxxxxxxxx
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