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...Leica’s watches enter a booming category....
...More acquisitions followed, including a successful hostile bid for Switzerland’s Leica Geosystems. Rollen says he made lots of mistakes, mostly by misjudging people....
...Leica’s Weibo account was deluged by posts attacking the company, with several saying Leica had put its partner Huawei in a bad situation....
...Along the way Hexagon took control of Leica Geosystems and Brown & Sharpe, becoming a leader in technology used to design, measure and position objects....
...— a collaborative project by Fotografie Forum and Leica Camera — celebrates 100 years of the Leica, following the course of photographic history from the avant-garde 1920s and 1930s through to contemporary...
...Leica increased sales by 57 per cent last year to €248.8m thanks to buoyant demand for its Leica M and Leica S camera systems....
...Beyond cars, he recently took on a personal project and designed a special edition camera – the Leica M9 “Titanium”, which was unveiled in 2010....
...With a battered Leica M9 digital camera slung around his neck, ever ready to take a photograph, the floppy-haired Joi Ito looks younger than his 45 years....
...The group plans to fold the business into its life sciences segment, alongside brand names including Leica and AB Sciex, boosting its revenues from healthcare to about 47 per cent of total sales....
...Leica’s special edition M9 Titanium () , crafted by a Volkswagen designer, is just arriving in dealers at an iris-watering price....
...Mr Dumas prioritised craftsmanship over fashion, a stance that led him to take a stake in Leica, the German camera maker. He also believed that a company was about more than making money....
...Analysts said the company, which makes equipment for the construction, manufacturing and geosystems sectors, generates about 70 per cent of its sales from China....
...The camera maker Leica revolutionised photography in 1925 when it introduced the compact camera....
...Hermès will continue to hold about €7m of Leica convertible bonds....
...Hexagon, the Swedish engineering group, has raised its hostile bid for Leica Geosystems by 31.4 per cent surpassing the offer from rival Danaher of the US last month....
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