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Posted by Claudia on April 30, 2008, 7:05 am
Well,
if DMC floss does stop existence, what will we do?????
What are the alternatives?
Anchor? (Isn't that part of DMC????)
Madeira?
What????
Claudia
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Posted by on April 30, 2008, 8:14 am
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> Well,
> if DMC floss does stop existence, what will we do?????
> What are the alternatives?
> Anchor? =A0(Isn't that part of DMC????)
> Madeira?
> What????
> Claudia
Sorry if I've responded twice, I can't get my head around how this
thing works.
Achor is owned by Coats Crafts who are an intirely separate company.
I would have thought if there isn't a solution for DMC that they would
be considering looking at the threads business. The DMC brand is
enormous, particularly for threads, and something worth having. From
what I have heard there is little difference in the quality between
Anchor and DMC stranded cotton and they have a similar size range,
however, DMC must certainly have the lion's share of the market,
particularly if you consider worldwide sales.
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Posted by ellice on April 30, 2008, 9:20 am
On 4/30/08 8:14 AM, "spontare@superstitcher.com"
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>> Well,
>>
>> if DMC floss does stop existence, what will we do?????
>>
>> What are the alternatives?
>>
>> Anchor? (Isn't that part of DMC????)
>>
>> Madeira?
>>
>> What????
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>> Claudia
>
> Sorry if I've responded twice, I can't get my head around how this
> thing works.
>
> Achor is owned by Coats Crafts who are an intirely separate company.
> I would have thought if there isn't a solution for DMC that they would
> be considering looking at the threads business. The DMC brand is
> enormous, particularly for threads, and something worth having. From
> what I have heard there is little difference in the quality between
> Anchor and DMC stranded cotton and they have a similar size range,
> however, DMC must certainly have the lion's share of the market,
> particularly if you consider worldwide sales.
I don't know that worldwide DMC has a bigger share. Just depends on where
you are. I believe that there is some entity which has ownership in both
corporations, but that's just like having stock in 2 different automotive
brands.
IIRC Anchor is manufactured in Germany. Which doesn't mean that if DMC went
out they wouldn't buy some factories or equipment, but who knows. Coats has
a lot of other yarn and thread brands, around the world.
http://www.coatscrafts.com/
For floss, well, there is some stuff being done in Romania - the Valdani
floss, and Presencia which is from a company in Spain.
http://www.presenciausa.com/
Just guessing, but I'd think the French courts will allow the restructuring,
rather than the immediate loss of 1000 jobs. But, then again, who knows.
ellice
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Posted by on April 30, 2008, 9:31 am
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> I don't know that worldwide DMC has a bigger share. =A0Just depends on whe=
re
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> you are. =A0I believe that there is some entity which has ownership in bot=
h
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> corporations, but that's just like having stock in 2 different automotive
> brands.
Amazingling Coats Crafts owns 20% of DMC but due to the competitive
nature of the business I understand has no involvement.
However, getting discussions going I guess whould be easier, it
probably depends on how much cash DMC needs to keep going.
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> For floss, well, there is some stuff being done in Romania - the Valdani
> floss, and Presencia which is from a company in Spain.http://www.presencia=
usa.com/
Thanks - I'll look into this, so you say you've stitched with it, what
is it like? What is the demand from your point of view, what would be
the advantange for a customer?
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> Just guessing, but I'd think the French courts will allow the restructurin=
g,
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> rather than the immediate loss of 1000 jobs. =A0But, then again, who knows=
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French works councils ensure that reduancy packages are enormous, so
I'd
expect that even 200 cuts will cost a small fortune. I got the
impression that
the immediate issue was operational cash however, so they'd need an
injection
from somewhere.
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Posted by bungadora on May 1, 2008, 7:25 pm
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> Well,
> if DMC floss does stop existence, what will we do?????
> What are the alternatives?
> Anchor? =A0(Isn't that part of DMC????)
> Madeira?
> What????
> Claudia
Well, I might be stepping on a land mine here, but it seems to me it's
only important if you use charts and stitch by color number. I dunno.
Maybe it would force people to take chances and use colors using their
brain, or at least a color chart.
Dora
I just have to get at least one of those ads off the front page of
Google. They're really starting to bug me.
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> if DMC floss does stop existence, what will we do?????
> What are the alternatives?
> Anchor? =A0(Isn't that part of DMC????)
> Madeira?
> What????
> Claudia