[rollei_list] Re: Grossly OT: Cornering the Silver Market

You're correct. The larger the business, in particular manufacturing 
businesses, the more difficult it is to shift to your focus and target the 
correct market. One of the major reasons is large corporations use few 
"focus groups" and base their marketing on these groups. 
These tactics often cause companies to add new products, and rather than 
change the ones they let them die an agonizing death. The more successful 
companies change the product and move quickly. Two examples, Kodak went from 
zero to #2 in digital cameras in a few years. They had 13% US market share 
in 2003 and grew to 18% in 2004. Not bad when you consider the culture 
change that had to be made. However, the lagging sales of other products 
drag down on profits. So film is slowly dying. 
Canon on the other hand has suspended all development for high-end film SLRs 
and has concentrated on digital SLRs. Plus they realized that they key was 
to develop their own image processor so they would not rely ona 3rd party as 
does Nikon and others. Today Canon is the top selling digital SLR, and among 
the top 3 in digital P&S cameras. 
 Peter K
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 On 6/15/05, Marc James Small <msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> 
> At 04:06 PM 6/15/05 -0700, Slobodan Dimitrov wrote:
> >Right next to the two hoarding morons from Texas.
> 
> 
> I suspect you are referring to the Bunker brothers, who attempted to do a
> Jay Gould clamp on the US silver market in 1980. One of them went to my
> college, I believe, Washington & Lee, but some time before I blackened the
> reputation of that institution forever. =20
> 
> They were hardly morons. They were simply adventurists who got caught out.
> Most family fortunes begin with some sort of larceny, in spirit if not de
> jure, and I have only the highest regard for a successful thief though,
> alas, I do not obtain regular employment from them, as my job as a crimnal
> defense attorney mandates that I only obtain employment from the allegedly
> unsuccessful ones ...
> 
> Now, if I would start playing golf, an unlikely development as I regard
> golf as the only negative product of the Scottish Highlands, mayhaps I
> would get more business from the descendants of these Robber Barons.
> 
> Marc
> 
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx=20
> Cha robh b=E0s fir gun ghr=E0s fir!
> 
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