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- From: m9944@abc.se (Peter Karlsson)
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- Subject: Escom
- Date: 16 Apr 1996 09:56:45 +0200
- Organization: ABC-Klubben
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- MUNICH (96-04-11) - Financially troubled German PC retailer Escom AG sai
- late Thursday that it will sell its Amiga Technologies GmbH subsidiary to
- VisualInformation Services Corp. (VIScorp) of Chicago in a US$40 million
- transaction. Escom acquired the Commodore and Amiga computer technology,
- patents, intellectual properties and brand names in April 1995 for
- $10 million at a bankruptcy auction for Commodore International, which
- filed for liquidation in 1994.
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- Escom earlier this year itself reported losses of $85 million for 1995,
- prompting founder Manfred Schmitt to resign last month. Selling Amiga will
- allow Escom to better concentrate on its core business of PC retailing,
- Escom said in a statement.
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- VIScorp, which makes set-top boxes, will acquire the Amiga and Commodore
- technology and intellectual property, but not the Commodore brand names,
- Escom said.
- Escom in Heppenheim can be reached at +49 (6252) 709-0.
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