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Originally Posted by 2stroke
I thought Tasco owned Celestron?
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http://www.celestron.com/portal/about-celestron ("Celestron Origins" tab):
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In April of 2005, SW Technology Corporation, current owner acquired the company. Celestron was provided access to a supply chain network with state of the art technology and many years of technical and manufacturing experiences. Backed with these competitive advantages, Celestron is now able to concentrate its resources towards offering an unprecedented level of customer satisfaction and a wide range of products to the market place.
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SW Technology Corporation is the US subsidiary of Synta:
http://investing.businessweek.com/re...capId=25009505
There are plenty of threads/pages about the acquisition online. This one is useful:
http://www.chuckhawks.com/celestron_...connection.htm
Here's a copy of the original news release, in case you're interested:
http://www.astronomyforum.net/celest...ade-synta.html
From what I can figure out: Tasco bought Celestron in 1998, but went into liquiduation in 2002. Bushnell's parent bought Tasco, except for the Celestron assets, which were bought by three of Celestron's managers. That lasted three years until the Synta sale.