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Re: [TenTec] Ten-Tec and the dealers

To: "Scott Rosenfeld [N7JI]" <ham@w3eax.umd.edu>
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Ten-Tec and the dealers
From: Bill NY9H <ny9h@attbi.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 11:22:07 -0600
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At 10:41 AM 1/31/03, Scott Rosenfeld [N7JI] wrote:
But then the Y-I-K call centers would have to be in Japan - and the time
differential alone would kill their US sales :)


Historically the Japanese have used agents... Icom when it started here in the states, I think was not totally owned by Icom Japan. I think there was some American ownership/partnership. It, in part, could be to limit their losses, until firmly established. Standard Radio for many years was owned by the LA based Thomas Family... ( Hi Mark !!) In fact if you we search on the Marantz name, you'll see how the Standard brand was built in a plant that was called MJI for Marantz Japan. They made the Heath talkies also. I think it started as a superscope factory, owned by the LA based Tushinsky family. They were the importers of the Sony tape recorder line. Later Sony started bringing in radios "TR-3 "and 5" tv sets. Then there were the Tani brothers who started TEAC.

oops  this is the TenTec reflector...  sorry...
bill   (who has  a lot of TenTec equipment)


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