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- From: Mat Bettinson <mat@cu-amiga.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: News Article: Escom in financial trouble
- Date: 05 Mar 96 19:38:04 GMT
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- Salutations Jason for on the 05 Mar 96, verilly did you scribe;
-
- JN> I'm not too worried about this. I'm sure a HUGE portion of this can
- JN> be attributed to the purchase of commodore and it's belongings. This
- JN> purchase would account for a large outflow of cash.
-
- Errr. 10 million (USD) is nothing. They're talking losses of 85 million.
-
- Yep, on friday they announced that the losses would be much higher. Not good
- news. Apparently they're in the process of getting loans from banks and
- selling 'licenses' <horror> and such forth to pay their way back to
- viability.
-
- This may, in part, count for the wild rumours circulating at the moment.
- It's giving me a headache sorting the truth from the crap.
-
- One thing IS for sure, it's quite possible Escom could sell the Amiga.
- They've been selling other assets and with such losses presented to the
- shareholders, they may be under presure to cut out any parts of the business
- that aren't firmly in profit. I'm afraid AT is definately one of those parts
- (not to be cut but not making a profit).
-
- Having said that, their shareprices rose greatly on Monday with the other
- financial stuff they've performed. Maybe they wont need to sell AT, maybe
- they have and it's not public knowledge yet. Whatever, these are certainly
- interesting times.
-
- Oh yes, everyone should check the AT home page. A new press release has some
- specs on the 'next' Amiga to be previewed at Cebit etc.
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