In Japan, it is very common for a company to hold another company's stock. That's especially true when one company is a supplier to another company. It seems likely to me that this is true of Hoya and Tokina, though I don't know where a person could go to check on it.
Ira On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:57:36 -0700 (PDT) Rick Womer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you go to http://www.hoya.co.jp, Pentax is listed as a subsidiary but not > Tokina. Searching the site for "Tokina" gets zero hits. > > Wikipedia and a few other sites indicate that Hoya supplies glass to Tokina, > but that Tokina is an independent company. > > Rick > > http://photo.net/photos/RickW > -- Ira Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.