-----Original Message----- >From: Ray Rogers <earthsoda@xxxxxxxxx> >Sent: Apr 1, 2008 2:14 AM >To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [pure-silver] Re: ARISTA paper is rebadged KENTMERE??? > > >--- Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> At 03:12 PM 3/31/2008, you wrote: >> >Hi all, >> > >> >I believe that somebody recently mentioned that that ARISTA paper >> >sold by FREESTYLE was rebadged (manufactured by) KENTMERE. Can >> >this be confirmed? >.... >> >> Some of it is but some Arista paper is made in Europe. I wil >> have to go down to the store and poke around to see what I can find >> out. I believe Kentmere was recently sold to Ilford. > > >??? > >It must still be early there Richard. > >Kentmere was in England... I say was because they have been absorbed by >Harman... >which is/was essentially the core B/W section of Ilford. > >Anyway, England is still part of Europe, I think. > >Unless someone has rebranded/repackaged that too! > >Ray > It would have been better, or at least clearer, if I had referred to continental rather than European manufacturers. I believe Kentmere is a place name as well as a company name, as is Ilford. As far as buy-outs I suspect that after a while everything will be owned by General Electric or Exxon which will then be bought out by the Saudi's. -- 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.