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EC blesses Samsung – Tosh storage unionGetaway vehiclePublished Thursday 4th March 2004 09:54 GMT The European Commission has waved through the merger of the optical disk drive operations of Toshiba and Samsung. It ruled yesterday that the proposed joint venture
In all markets, The Samsung-Tosh combine faces strong competitors, including Japanese/ South-Korean Hitachi LG joint venture, Taiwan's Lite-On, Japanese companies Panasonic and TEAC and a number of smaller competitors. Toshiba and Samsung are pooling their optical disk drive businesses to create a better getaway vehicle for them to flee the market, without losing too much face or money. Into the pot goes the development, design and marketing of CD drives and DVD drives, mostly made for PCs. Production is to be outsourced. ®
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