JOBO bankrupcy

voytek · Joined: 24 Nov 2009 Posts: 891

Sad news for analog camera users:
http://blog.nikonians.org/archives/2010/03/jobo_files_bankruptcy.html

MF-addicted · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 7:01 am Post subject:

I was shocked reading this.
When I was young, I started with darkroom equipment from JOBO and developped my first b&w films with their equipement.
Sorry to hear this, they lasted for more than 85 years Sad

Farside · Expire: 2013-12-27

Damn. Mind you, they weren't exactly cheap and it's only now that many who fancied Jobo gear can afford it used.

gcrimmins · Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 146 Location: Moscow, Idaho, USA

That's sad news, they seem to be a good company. It's not surprising, though, given that their focus for many years was on film processing equipment. Finding a niche in a digital world must be difficult for them. I wish them well..

--Geoff

voytek · Joined: 24 Nov 2009 Posts: 891

Maybe some company from far East will buy them out. And brand will not disappear from the world market

Sevo · Expire: 2012-12-03

I suppose their film related business will survive. Tanks and spare parts will, at a small level, keep enough jobs going for a long time that a management buyout would receive unemployment agency funding.

What killed them is their digital business - importing image tanks and digital picture frames is not a business with the scale and profit margin required to fulfil old obligations like pension funds from film boom days...

Sevo

rawhead · Expire: 2014-04-29

Now the *somewhat* affordable used Jobo stuff prices will likely skyrocket Sad