As I read it yesterday, Konica bought Minolta for 1.6B
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----- Original Message -----
From: <dolphans1@xxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 11:54 AM
Subject: [OM] What Is Olympus Corp Doing?
> Hey Guys, it's nice to nice Minolta is being agressive and competitive in
> the "real" camera world. They purchased Konica, on the negative flip side
of
> it, some employees will be losing their jobs, which is always a sad thing
to
> see in any case. Personally, in my opinion, I've never been in favor of
mergers
> or acquistions of any kind, because I feel it chokes off competition, but
> that's another story, because everyone is doing it.
>
> It would be nice to see Olympus team-up or align with someone, to make
them
> more of a force in the SLR camera market. "The Big Boys".
>
> Minolta, Konica will merge
> The Associated Press
>
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