Thomson Grass Valley buys Canopus
Thomson has signed an agreement to acquire 33 1/3% of the issued and outstanding shares of Canopus and will launch a public tender offer for the remaining Canopus shares tomorrow.
Press release: http://www.thomson.net/EN/Home/Press...d-599c5de7c9ea Press conference now at: http://www.irwebcasting.com/051205/0...ee3/index.html |
Holy cow, knock me over with a feather! Man, I'm still down on the floor over here. Somebody help me up!
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I hope this is a good thing.
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It's like Avid buying Pinnacle.
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i had no idea canopus was for sale, at least now i'm going to get that viper plugin for edius i always wanted :)
any ideas what this means for all us grass valley users here (silence)...errr i mean edius users... |
Canopus isn't publicly traded (at least not yet), so I think this deal was brokered with T/GV strictly at Hiro's leisure. In other words, I doubt he was taking offers for it... who knows... I'm sure everyone will benefit though.
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Canopus has been listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange since 2002. Price jumped 12% yesterday. According to the press conference where this was announced and available on line here:
http://www.irwebcasting.com/051205/0...ee3/index.html about 45% of the shares are held by individuals. There is a lot more information here about the reasons for the deal and what is intended for the future. |
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