Forum name, Change?

Pentaxophile
Posted 13/10/2011 - 16:22 Link
You can look at it like this - BMW bought Land Rover. Land Rover is enough of an iconic name that it isn't subsumed into the BMW brand, and Land Rover forums and fan groups still exist, and do not feel they have to start talking about BMW 1 Series or whatever.
snappychappy
Posted 13/10/2011 - 16:23 Link
Pentaxophile wrote:
You can look at it like this - BMW bought Land Rover. Land Rover is enough of an iconic name that it isn't subsumed into the BMW brand, and Land Rover forums and fan groups still exist, and do not feel they have to start talking about BMW 1 Series or whatever.
Very good point.
tyronet2000
Posted 13/10/2011 - 16:37 Link
Aren't a lot of Latin Americans called Rico ?

Perhaps Registered Owners will be sent a free sticker to cover up Pentax on their equipment

Regards
Regards
Stan

PPG
George Lazarette
Posted 14/10/2011 - 10:08 Link
I do think some people are being a bit dim.

PRICL is the name of a company, like Unilever.

Pentax is a brand, like Persil (which is owned by Unilever).

If Unilever sell Persil to Procter & Gamble, the latter are not going to give it a new name (Progsil, anyone?) and throw away the value of the brand.

Ricoh are not crazy. If they were, they would not have included the Pentax brand name as the first word in their new company name.

And nor did Hoya change the brand name, remember.

G
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Pentaxophile
Posted 14/10/2011 - 12:38 Link
Apropos of nothing really, I noticed this front-page image on Flickr - a celebration of the uniting of two great photographic brands?

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Or just coincidence?
Edited by Pentaxophile: 14/10/2011 - 12:38

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