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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Who owns who
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Date: 23 Sep 88 06:01:33 GMT
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In article <4188@louie.udel.EDU> (Brian E Whitman) writes:
>Well we chatted back and forth then he said something that I don't think is
>true.  He says that Commodore is owned by Pet.  At least 51% of there stock
>is held by Pet.  And that the office in PA is only the American home office.
>That the bases of the Company is in Europe under some third name.

Well Commodore can tell you better but looking at the CBM annual report can
give you some idea of who owns what and where and how. Basically, Pet is 
the name of one of Commodore's products, not a company. As far as I can 
tell the main parent company is Commodore Electronics Ltd in the Bahamas
(that's who Irving works for) and Commodore Business Machines is the US
sales and development organization (wholly owned etc etc) Canada has it's
own company and so do several countries in europe. Commodore-Amiga is another
entity too. Anyway, I believe that's why Commodore has a tough time getting
it's act together because it's more like a corporate herd (covy?) than 
something you could point at and say "That's Commodore."

Anyway, most of this stuff is available from various reports. If you are
interested in this stuff you should buy 10 or 20 shares (it cost less
than a memory card :-)) assign your proxy to Dale and then read all the
stuff they send you about where the best revenues are, how they think 
they are doing etc.

--Chuck McManis
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