Re: [APML] Celestron still around

["Michael D. Turner" <mturner999@earthlink.net>]

At 08:30 PM 6/19/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>This is from the Celestron website.  Looks like they're PO'ed with Meade.

Um. Acquiring the assets of Celestron would be a (the!) major coup for 
Meade. Don't know much about the company or it's management, it's presently 
privately held by Tasco; no public info on its management but it seems that 
Mr. Lupica heads a management group bidding for Celestron's assets. This 
isn't a matter of being "PO'ed with Meade". It's a matter of survival. 
(1)The jobs of these guys, and maybe something they really believe in... 
(2) potential or real falloff of sales resulting from public perception 
that Celestron is no longer viable because of Tasco's problems.

The purpose of the message is to preserve sales/consumer confidence in the 
company...very much in jeopardy if the public perceives that C's products, 
and especially support might disappear.

I'd hate to see any shrinkage in competition in this tiny industry which 
has made astronomy so much more accessible to the general public in the 
last few years.

-Mike


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