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Phatnoise Inc. bought by Harmon Group
« on: August 24, 2005, 09:40:19 am »
We have new owners to deal with now - Harmon Group (famous for the Harmon Kardon and JBL brands)...

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050823005725&newsLang=en

Nice little earner for the guys who originally started Phatnoise from a university project!!!!

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Re: Phatnoise Inc. bought by Harmon Group
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2005, 12:25:21 pm »
Wow.

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Re: Phatnoise Inc. bought by Harmon Group
« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2005, 12:29:42 pm »
Gosh, what will that mean for Kenwood?


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Re: Phatnoise Inc. bought by Harmon Group
« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2005, 04:26:40 am »
These things have been in the works for months and months, they always are.. so I think perhaps this may have something to do with the kenwood keg 2.0 never coming out.

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Re: Phatnoise Inc. bought by Harmon Group
« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2005, 02:32:22 pm »
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These things have been in the works for months and months, they always are.. so I think perhaps this may have something to do with the kenwood keg 2.0 never coming out.


That's an interesting thought. Once Kenwood backed away from the Keg 2, it was never clear why Phatnoise didn't push the product to the open market. This could go a long way to explaining why they would sit on such a juicy product.