The Japanese printer manufacturer, Ricoh takes the cameratak under the Pentax name operates from Hoya. The expectation was that the lenzenmaker Hoya from Pentax would get rid of. Unknown is whether Ricoh is the brand name Pentax.
Ricoh is primarily known as a manufacturer of printers and copiers, but the company also brings compact cameras. The group is hardly active on the market for dslr’s and other high-end cameras with interchangeable lenses. In order to change, take Ricoh Pentax Imaging Systems.
Pentax was since 2007 in the hands of lenzenfabrikant Hoya, but that company wanted at the time, especially the medical technology of Pentax in their possession. The expectation had been that Hoya Pentax in the shop window. Hoya puts Pentax in a new company, called NewCo, and will sell on 1 October this year all the shares in that company at Ricoh. Unknown is whether Ricoh is the brand name Pentax, or the cameras under their own name to deliver. A consideration is not mentioned.