>>3571917>ceo directly states imaging division is in troubleEveryone knows the Imaging division has been in trouble for years now. This isn't new news and goes along with all of their outlook and strategy up to their last quarterly earnings statement. This is why I'm saying this FUD is very odd and seems untrustworthy, because the only quote from Takeuchi they included was saying that they'll address their personnel issue "in due course." Olympus added over 500 jobs in the Imaging division from 2018 through 2019. To me, this looks like hiring new talent to replace dead weight within the company, which Japanese firms are traditionally notorious for and which makes foreign investors unhappy.
The only concerning bit is about a sale being on the table, but yet, they suspiciously did not include any quote whatsoever to substantiate this. That's *exceptionally* suggestive that the CEO did not in fact say or imply this, and the journalists are writing a paid FUD piece. I mean, just for shits sake, I'd like your explanation why the most important news in a decade for Olympus Imaging, i.e. that it might be sold (or close down) at this point does not have a single statement to back it up, amidst a bunch of rumors of imminent demise, just 3 months after the CEO said explicitly that there were no plans to sell off the Imaging division, and their marginal rates have all been on target from their projections from 3 years ago when they started their capex expansion?
Just, none of this adds up. I'm open to any informed explanation how this is probably true though. I'm not married to Olympus or to MFT. It will just be a goddamn terribly sad day for me if they go belly up, because there really isn't a better overall system out there by a large margin
