An April 17 market JP Morgan report has the following figures: Pentax DSLR market share: 5% Pentax Digital Camera market share: 3%
Operating profit margin on compact digital cameras: Canon 20.1% Nikon 1.6% Casio 8.5% Pentax 1.9% Olympus 9.2% Operating profit margin for DSLR's (not listed for Pentax). Canon 47.5% Nikon 22.9% Tom C. >From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Pentax Update - Shakeup in the Works (again) >Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:33:56 -0400 > >Funny, the market share of DSLRs is supposed to be much higher. I >expect mis-information being used used as an attack. Reuters doesn't >give a source for that 2.3% figure anywhere do they. Most likely they >got that number from a party trying to sway shareholder sentiment. It's >always a good bet to depend on reporters laziness. > >Tom C wrote: > > http://tinyurl.com/2la524 > > > > >From Reuters... > > > > The move to overthrow Pentax's current management comes after Watanuki >told > > Sparx in a meeting last week that he rejected the earlier merger plan >though > > he hadn't mapped out an alternative to Hoya's proposal, the source said. > > > > Although Watanuki has denied that he was opposed to the merger plan with > > high-tech glass maker Hoya, local media have reported that the majority >of > > the Pentax board, including the new president, went against Urano for >having > > been open to the possible sale of the company's camera business. > > > > Pentax, which had been a pioneer in cameras with removable lenses for > > professionals and advanced amateurs, has lost out in the shift to >digital > > devices. Its market share in the global digital camera market stands at >just > > 2.3 percent. > > > > > > > > > > >-- >Entropy Seminar: The results of a five yeer studee ntu the sekend lw uf >thurmodynamiks aand itz inevibl fxt hon shewb rt nslpn raq liot. > > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
