not that I know much about the business world or camera markets but some thoughts FWIW ('cause really is the long future of pentax or hoya / pentax takeover held in the balance of what I post in this forum???...hmmm maybe
I heard a while back after one of the local banks announced more branch closures, that every time a bank closes a branch their share prices go up.
This seems to me be something similar to raise share prices before the next hoya bid stuff and seems to me just to what many businesses often do to raise share prices.
raise cash, cut costs and strip out the less profitable stuff, (all manufacturers have been complaining about p&s profits - I saw a year or so ago that nokia is the largest camera manufacturer in the world now without making a single camera - dont know if true but would likely be close)
announce that you are concentrating hard on high profit stuff with your lean, mean newly focused company and management team and then announce a swag of new products along those high profit product lines.
Whether any changes ever actually happen, or make a difference is another story, but the share price goes up.
Phil
estimated time of managing to purchase everything in my wish list (without new releases) - 3 years 6 months