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- From: Jason Neus
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- Subject: Re: News Article: Escom in financial trouble
- Date: 5 Mar 1996 01:48:12 GMT
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- In article <4hf1i4$ae2@toad.stack.urc.tue.nl> leon@stack.urc.tue.nl (Leon Woestenberg) writes:
- >
- > I found this article in a dutch national newspaper ("De Volkskrant") in
- > last Saturday's (2-Mar-96) edition, on page 2. It reports on the
- > announcement of the 1995 financial results of Escom - the company that
- > bought Commodore and the Amiga. The Amiga knowledge and technology is
- > brought under in Amiga Technologies, a daughter firm of Escom.
- >
- > [ARTICLE HEADER]
- > Computershop chain Escom is in trouble. Friday the German company, one of
- > the biggest PC-suppliers in Europe, announced that over the year 1995 a
- > loss of 125 million German Marks (DM) was booked. Shareholders and banks
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- I'm not too worried about this. I'm sure a HUGE portion of this can be
- attributed to the purchase of commodore and it's belongings. This
- purchase would account for a large outflow of cash.
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