Looking Ahead.(Brief Article)

Tape-Disc Business, January, 2001

More consolidation forecast for 2001.

What's in store for the media manufacturing industry in 2001? It does not take a rocket scientist (and no one has ever accused me of being a rocket scientist) to figure out that the industry will continue through difficult times throughout the next year.

Cinram's Dave Rubenstein said in a presentation at last month's IRMA Marketing Summit what most everyone else has been saying privately the past few months: the last six months of 2000 were not particularly good for most CD and DVD replicators (see related story, p. 63). Based on discussions I've had with various industry executives since the IRMA conference, my guess is that some of Rubenstein's figures may have been slightly exaggerated, but nonetheless, the...

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