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Re: British Aviva now owns 15.1% of B&O

Flappo — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 03:44:25 GMT

Considering the glacial pace of bno r&d any increase in rapidity of product release is welcome imo.

They can't keep selling stuff from the 1990's to the chinese especially.

Re: British Aviva now owns 15.1% of B&O

symmes — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:43:51 GMT

The relationships between Mckinsey Consulting and Triumph Motorcycles and Aviva and the new CEO and the subset of the board that actually make decisions might very well be the most important ones.

Re: British Aviva now owns 15.1% of B&O

TripEnglish — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:01:54 GMT

One of the supposed changes made under Kalle was a sharp reduction in this timeframe. My understanding is that BV10 was brought to market in less than 12 months.

That being said, B&O's strength, to me, was being able to develop the tech to meet seemingly unrealistic or unnecessary characteristics of the designer. To this day the CD mech in the BeoSound 9000 is an amazing achievement that could very easily have been shot down in another corporate culture.

I think it's crucial that we have the ability to respond in a technical sense to the direction set forth by the CEO and designer. Just putting new tech in place may make things seem more current, but less revolutionary.

Re: British Aviva now owns 15.1% of B&O

expoman — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:03:55 GMT

TripEnglish:

The read internally (of course I don't speak for everyone) is that these are positive developments. Despite feeling bad for Kalle in that surreal video address, we're excited by everything that's going on.

The point that has been made before it takes two years for B&O to get a new concept to market. No matter how much Tue wants to change things he is stuck with Kalle's plans for at least the next twelve to eighteen months. Unless his plans are something completely different?

Re: British Aviva now owns 15.1% of B&O

Puncher — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:27:32 GMT

burantek:

The British are coming! The British are coming!

You're right to be frightened! We'd probably sell all the best bits and close everything else down - who wants the bother of actually making things these days

Re: British Aviva now owns 15.1% of B&O

burantek — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:10:38 GMT

The British are coming! The British are coming!

Re: British Aviva now owns 15.1% of B&O

Spiros — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:42:48 GMT

Being young brings new ideas and trends to a company (at least usually). I would only second to Trip's post concerning internal "news" about further development and expansion of the brand. I think we will see too many changes in the near future. Too bad I missed the ride of the stock!

Re: British Aviva now owns 15.1% of B&O

TripEnglish — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:21:11 GMT

The read internally (of course I don't speak for everyone) is that these are positive developments. Despite feeling bad for Kalle in that surreal video address, we're excited by everything that's going on.

Re: British Aviva now owns 15.1% of B&O

Electrified — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:09:22 GMT

expoman:
The stock market seems to really like the CEO change? The share price is up 8.82% this week and 19.35% this month? What do they see as so positive?

I am as dumbfounded as you are. I have a hard time finding anything positive about this. Perhaps they're responding to Tue being younger? Or perhaps it's just a matter of one investor buying and other investors tagging along on "gut feeling"?

British Aviva now owns 15.1% of B&O

expoman — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 10:45:28 GMT

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&sl=da&u=http://www.business.dk/tech-mobil/briter-mere-magtfulde-i-bo&rurl=translate.google.com&usg=ALkJrhg_VLAFBTisisuTl3E9T8zrfzOqsg

The stock market seems to really like the CEO change? The share price is up 8.82% this week and 19.35% this month? What do they see as so positive?