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- From: CHEETAH@IUS.gun.de (Sven Tegethoff)
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- Organization: ReaLogic
- Subject: -> ESCOM SELLS AMIGA TECHNOLOGIES <-
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 13:27:48 +0200
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- ESCOM SELLS AMIGA
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- BOCHUM (rtr). Escom AG is going to sell it's subsidiary "Amiga Technologies
- GmbH" to the US-Company "Visual Informations Corp." for a price of
- $40.000.000. Escom announced, that both Companies have signed an agreement
- last Thursday [ April 11th ]. Escom said, that the sale is part of their
- goal to re-conentrate on their primary market, which is the computer retail
- trade.
-
- (Translated from the "Rheinische Post" of April 12th, 1996.)
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- I'm quite sure I've got everything right, but use this translation on your
- own risk anyway... original German article follows:
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- ESCOM VERKAUFT AMIGA
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- BOCHUM (rtr). Die Escom AG will ihre Tochter Amiga Technologies GmbH an die
- US-Gesellschaft Visual Informations Corp. verkaufen. Beide Unternehmen
- hΣtten eine AbsichtserklΣrung unterzeichnet, teilte Escom am Donnerstag
- [ 11. April ] mit. Als Kaufpreis wurden etwa 40 Millionen Dollar genannt.
- Mit dem Verkauf wolle sich Escom stΣrker auf sein KerngeschΣft, den
- Computer-Einzelhandel, konzentrieren, teilte das Unternehmen mit.
-
- (Rheinische Post vom 12.4.96)
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