-----Original Message----- From: Ray Rogers <earthsoda@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Jun 20, 2005 11:42 PM To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [pure-silver] Re: The Oriental Rumor --- Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: ----- Original Message ----- > Which rumor do you mean, the one about Kodak > discontinuing everything or the one about Ilford > making Oriental? The Oriental Rumor. The very idea of a manufacturer buying another manufacturers product, repackaging it under their own label and selling it... with the true manufacturers permission, is odd. Repackaging is common between manufacturers and distributors but I don't think it is at all common between two rival manufacturers. Perhaps someone knows of specific exceptions or examples... if so they will make interesting reading! ------ Ray In addition to this Ilford announced it would no longer sell its products for rebranding by dealers such as Freestyle. The figured out they were competing with themselves. For years Freestyle sold Ilford film under the house brand Arista. I don't think they ever sold Ilford paper under this name. I used a lot of Arista paper and it definitely was not Ilford. I think the current stuff is made by Kentmere and maybe others also. I looked at Oriental paper there when shopping a couple of weeks ago. It seems to me the labels stated it was made in Japan. I don't think its rebranded paper. Freestyle still has a fair variety of papers. -- Richard Knoppow dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Los Angeles, CA, USA ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.