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- From amk@zikzak.in-berlin.de Tue May 3 11:50:09 1994
- From: amk@zikzak.in-berlin.de (Andreas M. Kirchwitz)
- Newsgroups: de.comp.sys.amiga.misc,de.comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Commodore: weitere Entlassungen -> TILT!
- Date: Sat, 30 Apr 1994 04:19:43 GMT
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- [jetzt will ich auch mal human gateway spielen, 2 messages folgen:
- einer handelt von den entlassungen, der andere... naja]
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- | From: brucef@access.digex.net (Bruce M. Franklin)
- | Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- | Subject: C= Is Shutting Down Worldwide
- | Date: 28 Apr 1994 22:22:48 -0400
- | Message-ID: <brucef.767585581@access3>
- |
- | This message was posted on the Genie Starship by a former Commodore
- | software engineer. He lives in West Chester and is well connected with the
- | company. This is grim news but the source of it can not be doubted.
- |
- | =======================START OF MESSAGE================================
- |
- |
- | On Wednesday, April 27, Commodore laid off 65% of it's remaining work force at
- | the West Chester, Pennsylvania location.
- |
- | There were also layoffs at that location the previous Friday. The total number
- | of employees there has dropped from approximately 65 to approximately 22.
- | Almost all of the remaining staff are in the engineering department. There are
- | a handful of people (from 2 to 5) in each of the software, hardware, and chip
- | design groups as well as a remaining sysadmin and technical people useful in
- | maintaining equipment.
- |
- | Commodore also closed its chip manufacturing plant in Norristown, PA, and
- | layed off it's 15 remaining employees.
- |
- | Sources inside Commodore say that there are currently only three staff members
- | in Commodre's U.K. office, two in the German office and only three at the
- | production facility in the Phillipines. All other non-U.S. facilities have
- | been, or are being, liquidated. (The state of the Canadian subsidiary was
- | unknown but is presumed to be on par with those in UK & Germany.)
- |
- | The remaining engineering staff believes it is being kept on in the hopes that
- | a buyer can be found for the technology and that the remaining staff woould be
- | in a position to hand over the technology (and possibly to follow the
- | technology to new employment).
- |
- | A remaining manager said (off the record) that they expect Commodore to last
- | "two, maybe three more weeks".
- |
- | ==========================END OF MESSAGE====================================
- |
- | Stick a fork in them, they're done. Commodore is going down the toilet
- | at last. It's a fair chance that somebody will buy the technology at the
- | soon to be held Commodore fire sale. Whether they will keep the Amiga
- | computer alive is another question. It's not likely to happen. As I
- | said this is grim news but it's time to set aside the usual .advocacy
- | fantasies and face cold reality.
- |
- |
- | ______________________________________________________________
- | | |
- | | B r u c e M. F r a n k l i n |
- | | brucef@access.digex.com |
- | |______________________________________________________________|
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- | From: osiddi1@umbc.edu (Omar Siddique)
- | Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- | Subject: Commodore goes under
- | Date: 29 Apr 1994 21:50:07 -0400
- | Message-ID: <2psdgfINNgvs@umbc9.umbc.edu>
- |
- | Commodore's gone. <sniff> Completely. Voluntary liquidation. Meaning
- | there won't be _anyone_ making the Amiga any more. ::sigh:: Reported
- | by three seperate news agencies, CBM apparently made this announcement just
- | this evening (April 29th, Friday).
- |
- | --cut here--
- |
- | Hot off the wires, after the close of business on Friday, Commodore
- | made an announcement. Here are the stories carried on PRNewswire,
- | AP News and Reuters for *StarShip* members information.
- |
- |
- |
- |
- | COMMODORE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED TO LIQUIDATE
- |
- | NEW YORK, April 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Commodore International Limited (NYSE:
- | CBU) announced today that its Board Of Directors has authorized the
- | transfer of its assets to trustees for the benefit of its creditors and
- | has placed its major subsidiary, Commodore Electronics Limited, into
- | voluntary liquidation. This is the initial phase of an orderly liquidation
- | of both companies, which are incorporated in the Bahamas, by the Bahamas
- | Supreme Court.
- |
- | CONTACT: Hock Tan, CFO of Commodore International Limited, 215-431-9160/
- |
- |
- | ###
- |
- |
- | Commodore Folds
- |
- | By DINAH WISENBERG BRIN
- | Associated Press Writer
- |
- | WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) -- Commodore International Ltd., a pioneer in the
- | personal computer industry, said late Friday it is going out of business.
- |
- | The company plans to transfer its assets to unidentified trustees "for the
- | benefit of its creditors" and has placed its major subsidiary, Commodore
- | Electronics Ltd., into voluntary liquidation.
- |
- | "This is the initial phase of an orderly voluntary liquidation of both
- | companies," Commodore said in a brief statement.
- |
- | Company executives could not immediately be reached Friday evening.
- |
- | The company last month reported an $8.2 million loss for the quarter ending
- | Dec. 31 on sales of $70.1 million. A year earlier, Commodore lost $77.2 million
- | on sales of $237.7 million in the same period.
- |
- | In the latest report, Commodore said financial limits had thwarted its
- | ability to supply products, leading to weakened sales. One of its new products,
- | the Amiga CD32 video game, had sold poorly in Europe, where the company did most
- | of its business.
- |
- | The company's net worth turned negative in the fiscal year ended last June
- | 30.
- |
- | Its stock, which had traded at around $3 per share before the quarterly
- | results were announced last month, closed unchanged at 87 1/2 cents per share on
- | the New York Stock Exchange Friday.
- |
- | "This is a company that briefly captured the attention of the American market
- | and didn't go where the market was going," said David Coursey, editor of the
- | newsletter P.C. Letter in San Mateo, Calif. "They just never managed to change
- | with the marketplace."
- |
- | While grabbing some market share and attention in the late 1970s, Commodore's
- | products were something between PCs and game machines "and never quite became
- | either," Coursey said.
- |
- | Commodore started 40 years ago as a typewriter repair company in the Bronx.
- | Its extension to the adding machine business paved the way for it to make
- | calculators and then personal computers by the mid-1970s.
- |
- | Commodore competed with Radio Shack for the first computers sold to homes and
- | co-founder Jack Tramiel became a highly-regarded figure in the fledgling PC
- | industry.
- |
- | By the early 1980s, it was overshadowed in the PC business by Apple Computer
- | Inc. and IBM. Software manufacturers didn't create as much software for
- | Commodore's Amiga line as it did for Apple and IBM-compatible machines.
- |
- | In recent years, most of Commodore's business was in Europe.
- |
- | NewTek Inc. of Topeka, Kan., created a product called Video Toaster that
- | converted Commodore's Amiga to a video-editing system. The $2,500 product was
- | popular with small advertising agencies and home hobbyists. The company's phones
- | were busy Friday night.
- |
- |
- | ###
- |
- |
- |
- | Commodore International <CBU.N> to liquidate
- |
- | NEW YORK, April 29 (Reuter) - Commodore International Ltd said it authorized
- | the transfer of its assets to trustees for the benefit of its creditors and
- | placed its major subsidiary, Commodore Electronics Ltd into voluntary
- | liquidation.
- | The company said this is the initial phase of an orderly liquidation of both
- | companies, which are incorporated in the Bahamas, by the Bahamas Supreme Court.
- | --New York Newsdesk 212-603-3310.
- |
- |
- | ###
- | --cut here--
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