Done deal ? Ducati get MotoGuzzi [+Laverda] after all : http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040718/uksu002_1.html Least it stays Italian. CDIHL
I wonder how long it will be before we see a similar thing in bikes that there is in cars, with only 3 or 4 actual companies marketing heaps of different brands (all of which were once actual companies in their own right)? (Think General Motors.)
Already happening Yamaha is part owned by Toyota Kawasaki and Suzuki are sleeping together The Italians now seem to be all getting together just to compete on a stronger footing CDIHL
Thats the old days. Now is a public listed co. on the US and Italian stock markets The managment and major share holders are still Italian CDIHL
Yup, it was wholly owned by TPG (?Texas Pacific Group IIRC, US anyway) who bought it off Cagiva, and then floated about umm 4 years ago ? which obviously diluted their holding. JL