Well these days anything can happen. Am I surprised, not at all.spiny norman said:
spiny norman said:
gel said:Since I have bought my home cinema system Pioneer has gone right downhill and now B&W could follow suit!
*good*jjbomber said:gel said:Since I have bought my home cinema system Pioneer has gone right downhill and now B&W could follow suit!
... and the Apple share price has fallen for 10 days in a row. At least John Lewis are still alive.
Andy Clough said:Well personally I find it intriguing, this is far from your usual takeover of a small firm by a bigger one. I'm waiting to hear back from my contacts at B&W to see if I can find out more, here's what we know so far, based on the official press release:
http://www.whathifi.com/news/bowers-wilkins-sold-to-silicon-valley-start-undisclosed-sum
jjbomber said:A British hi-fi company is bought up by a foreign firm. Not sure how that is unexpected news. I was hoping for something along the lines of; BBB buys Man Ure scarf and hat, StrappedForCash votes Tory or even Gel reads an instruction manual.
tino said:Let's hope they don't move whatever manufacturing is done in the UK over to China.
gel said:Since I have bought my home cinema system Pioneer has gone right downhill
The_Lhc said:I wonder if anyone here will actually read the article in question. No redundancies are planned, the existing manufacturing base will remain, B&Ws majority owner will still be in charge and B&W will get access to the tech that will allow them to compete in the 21st century market. Seems like a win all round.
jjbomber said:gel said:Since I have bought my home cinema system Pioneer has gone right downhill and now B&W could follow suit!
... and the Apple share price has fallen for 10 days in a row. At least John Lewis are still alive.
expat_mike said:jjbomber said:gel said:Since I have bought my home cinema system Pioneer has gone right downhill and now B&W could follow suit!
... and the Apple share price has fallen for 10 days in a row. At least John Lewis are still alive.
The Apple share price was buoyed up by the assumption of ever increasing iPhone sales. It was inevitable that the sales would eventually fall, so investors have taken their profits, after 13 years of growth.
'Apple Inc on Tuesday posted its first-ever decline in iPhone sales and its first revenue drop in 13 years as the company credited with inventing the smartphone struggles with an increasingly saturated market.'
The_Lhc said:tino said:Let's hope they don't move whatever manufacturing is done in the UK over to China.
I wonder if anyone here will actually read the article in question. No redundancies are planned, the existing manufacturing base will remain, B&Ws majority owner will still be in charge and B&W will get access to the tech that will allow them to compete in the 21st century market. Seems like a win all round.
BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW said:jjbomber said:A British hi-fi company is bought up by a foreign firm. Not sure how that is unexpected news. I was hoping for something along the lines of; BBB buys Man Ure scarf and hat, StrappedForCash votes Tory or even Gel reads an instruction manual.
*biggrin* I think we all know gel will never ever read an instruction manual.
Our politics may be decidedly different, but I'll admit, on occasions, you can be quite funny.
A day in the life of most politicians...they moan and rail against unfortunate people on the dole sponging...politicians, councillors etc..biggest grasping spongers out there! Ps your mum must of had a nice evening listening to your ranting! Take her to the local little theatre to make up for listening to that diatribe! We all need to patronise these theatres..good productions! Cheap tickets..a convivial evening out!jjbomber said:BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW said:jjbomber said:A British hi-fi company is bought up by a foreign firm. Not sure how that is unexpected news. I was hoping for something along the lines of; BBB buys Man Ure scarf and hat, StrappedForCash votes Tory or even Gel reads an instruction manual.
*biggrin* I think we all know gel will never ever read an instruction manual.
Our politics may be decidedly different, but I'll admit, on occasions, you can be quite funny.
Thank goodness somebody got the joke. I was beginning to think that I was talking to myself.
I disagree with everyone on politics, becuse I hate them all. My mother is voting UKIP tomorrow, so I've spend all evening disecting the hypocrite Farage. The son of immigrants trying to stop immigration, paying his brother a million pound dividend and saying his hasn't another source of income, having his german immigrant wife working for him for free, while another UKIP member pays her salary on his expenses, claiming up to £15,000 a day expenses just for security when saying he is against the EU wasting money, the list is endless.
No more TVs due to high debt, sold its AV business to Onkyo.The_Lhc said:gel said:Since I have bought my home cinema system Pioneer has gone right downhill
Have they? In what way?
*biggrin*BIGBERNARDBRESSLAW said:jjbomber said:A British hi-fi company is bought up by a foreign firm. Not sure how that is unexpected news. I was hoping for something along the lines of; BBB buys Man Ure scarf and hat, StrappedForCash votes Tory or even Gel reads an instruction manual.
*biggrin* I think we all know gel will never ever read an instruction manual.
Our politics may be decidedly different, but I'll admit, on occasions, you can be quite funny.
gel said:No more TVs due to high debt
jjbomber said:Thank goodness somebody got the joke. I was beginning to think that I was talking to myself.