25 Jan
2010
25 Jan
'10
2:29 p.m.
On Monday 25 January 2010, Jens M Andreasen wrote:
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 09:25 +0000, Victor Lazzarini
wrote:
Please, don't forget that the audio/video market isn't the only one they are
heavily involved in. My next door neighbor is in the graphic arts business
and supplies probably 50% of the fancy paint and decal business to the race
car owners for a couple of states in all directions, and also makes a large
proportion of the local signage. His tools include a couple of Roland decal
cutters that cost him into the 6th digit to buy, and which still cost him
somewhere in the low 5th digit for maintenance contracts per year. Not to
mention expendables that probably run well towards the 6th digit a year.
So they are worth more than what the audio folks might consider just for what
the audio folks know about them.
What 16 thousand million? Who said there was no
money in electronic
music instruments?
Yes it does sound a bit excessive, doesn't it? According to the same
website, Roland is selling for $40 billion. This includes their Video
gear though.
And then again, Yamaha is selling for only $4 billion, which is highly
surprising compared to the two others?! Did something get lost in
translation? Are these figures really Taiwan or Hong Kong dollars? Yen?
Roland is publically traded and hence publish their key data, which
tells us that their sales for 2009 were at ¥100,506,864,000 (Yen!) which
then again still translates to around a billion US dollars - but nowhere
near the forty like it was quoted in the link I gave yesterday.
Sorry ... Roland: $1 billion
http://www.corporateinformation.com/Company-Snapshot.aspx?cusip=C39242560
Yamaha: $4 billion
http://www.corporateinformation.com/Company-Snapshot.aspx?cusip=C39283560
Kawai: $1/2 billion
http://www.corporateinformation.com/Company-Snapshot.aspx?cusip=C392AK960
My guess is that KORG would be selling maybe like Kawai? (while of
course targetting an entirely different market.)
In any case, $16 billion does not sound reasonable.
... And now back to our regular programming:
"How to make useful musical instruments out of the techno-trash others
have thrown in the dumpster?"
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Take it easy, we're in a hurry.
On 24 Jan 2010, at 15:06, Jens M Andreasen
wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-01-24 at 17:46 +0300, Louigi Verona wrote:
>> I read about this Korg OASYS ...
>>
>> ... Proprietary world is so full of wasted efforts, imho.
>
> The 290 employees at KORG is raking in a cool $16,419.7 million in
> annual sales from their efforts, so they might deviate just slightly
> from our most humble opinions.
>
> :-D
>
> http://www.hoovers.com/company/Korg_Inc/rfcjhyi-1.html
>
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