[LRflex] Re: Bad news at Leica

  • From: AMARD philippe <philippe.amard@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 12:10:27 +0100

On Sat, 6 Dec 2008 12:04:03 +0100
"FLAVIO GORI" wrote:
> i suppose that other luxury (and not so luxury) brands
>may be affected by
> worldwide crisis.not a real surprise on this time. here
>in italy we have a
> very freezed market. no one is buying anything. even
>foodstuffs markets are
> down sharply, not to mention cars, dresses, shoes
>markets.
> how about in your countries?
>
> flavio
>
>
Same here. We're all keeping our savings for the R9.2 D
Ciao da Strasbourg
Philippe
 

> 2008/12/6 Douglas Sharp
>
>> 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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