SEAS of Norway bought by Sonavox

[winslow]

SEAS Fabrikker AS of Norway has recently been acquired by the management of SEAS and by Sonavox of China.

www.seas.no and www.sonavox.com


So announced in this month's issue of Voice Coil magazine.

[Paul Carmody]

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There goes the neighborhood...

[prighello]

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Ouch, Scanspeak and Seas back to back.

[Tin_Ears]

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Well, ya' gotta' at least give them some points for taste.;)

[NyxOne]

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Wow... Scanspeak and now Seas!

I wasn't totaly surprised when Scanspeak got sold but Seas ??? Realy!?

I think a need a beer... or two. :(

[Juhazi]

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Makes me think of getting more capital for R&D... - and more butter on bread for the management:p At least Volvo, Saab and Jaguar have got new wings from China and India!

http://seas.no/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22&Itemid=27

1984 The SEAS employees bought 10% of the shares in the company
1986 The employees fromed a holding company, Nexus, and bought the remaining 90% of the shares.

[AJ]

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It all depends on how the company is taken over. Quality 'could' easily remain the same if the current structure is left intact, and it could even get better.

[Jeff B.]

Re: SEAS of Norway bought by Sonavox

SEAS Fabrikker AS of Norway has recently been acquired by the management of SEAS and by Sonavox of China.

www.seas.no and www.sonavox.com


So announced in this month's issue of Voice Coil magazine.

In the Scanspeak thread I made reference that this was coming. There may be one more announcement too.

I would not expect the quality to change though.

[bobreimer]

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Hi,

Not sure if it makes a difference but I heard that it was Sonavox Canada who did the buying and since they already bought BASH (Indigo Data) located in Markham who knows.....

Bob

[doctormorbius]

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There goes the neighborhood...

You can say that again.

I really hate the new world order. Someone needs to just push the big red button and get it over with.

[ngjockey]

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Who's left... Visaton, Morel, Dynaudio, ??

[killa]

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People aren't buying the products due to price and the companies raise the price because, oh no! profit isn't as high as it was previously. But wait now even more people can't afford it so the company ends up going under and someone comes and buys their company. So it goes.

[Æ]

Re: SEAS of Norway bought by Sonavox

You can say that again.

I really hate the new world order. Someone needs to just push the big red button and get it over with.

I have, many times!

[andy19191]

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I would not expect the quality to change though.

The quality may even go up due to having access to a large company's R&D. I guess the most important question for us is will Scan-Speak and SEAS stop selling to the DIY community now there is less need to do so? If the brands are used to add value to the large companies top end exclusive ranges then stopping selling to competitors or selling at very high price are likely to be attractive moves.

[Wolf]

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There may be one more announcement too.

Yeah- wait for that hammer to fall....
Wolf