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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Troubador" data-source="post: 3696526" data-attributes="member: 109211">Its a good question CJ and I know some bino dealers who would love to see this happen. What have Zeiss been doing? There are two answers to this. On the product side they have developed and launched an HT-based range finder bino and developed the constant-angle-of-view Harpia scope. On the organisation side things don't look rosy at all and must be having an impact on product development. It was reported late last year that 140 jobs were being lost at Wetzlar and 80 transferred to Oberkochen 340 kilometres away. It doesn't take much imagination to conclude that plenty of folks holding those 'transferred' jobs will not wish to leave their home town and will be jumping ship to take up jobs elsewhere. If the deficit between the number of jobs that are ending and the number 'transferring' is to be filled by Oberkochen personnel taking on dual-function jobs (ie doing Sports Optics work as well as work on other products) there wiil be time needed for retraining and reorganising. Customer Service is staying in Wetzlar.I have been in 'restructuring' companies and as hard as a company might try there was always a severe impact on normal business activities. And of course public announcements like the one mentioned above by no means reveal all the internal goings-on that may have had impacts leading up to the momentous decision that was announced. It seems likely to me that the company has been struggling with the issues that led to this 'restructuring' announcement since Richard Schmidt left the company 4 years ago.The Oberkochen site is immensely impressive in scale and with its facilities and the quality of the product they turn out so the long-term future of Zeiss Sports Optics looks good but between now and then it seems there will inevitably be disruption to all activities.Lee</blockquote>

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