Meliora wrote:

You are spot on. All engineers that worked on Eclipse and BeoLab50 has left the company. They where all laid off between may and October 2017. The company has no engineering left (only the aluminium factory that rumors say is for sale). In future the functions left will be design, purchasing, sourcing and some support functions left. Rest is RIP.

The future vision of B&O management is to run the business as a Beoplay business unit. That means all engineering in the future will happen at subcontractors in China and production will be handled by Chinese controlled Thyphany factory in Czech.

I will not buy B&O anymore because of this decission - I don't want a LG TV with a chinese speaker box attached. I think I would be better off with a LG TV with an LG soundbar. At least you know the two parts will be compatible.

I think BeoLab 90 and 50 are the last real Danish B&O icons.

The above was posted in the Eclipse thread. Can anyone confirmed whether this is true? 

If this is indeed the future will the products be "sourced", in which case B&O are still responsible for warranty/support etc., or "licensed" in which case total product liability is the licensee's in which case B&O are only printing their name on someone elses product for a fee.

Found this:

"Engineer Intern for Acoustics and Digital Signal Processing"
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I was unaware that so many people had been laid off..  

Talking about myself here.. As I get older, I get more suspicious, then I start looking at the story behind the story. 

Did Tue Mantoni see the certain demise of the company coming?  He got paid lots and lots of cheap shares instead of cash (I was told it was his decision) - and was this because his main aim was to inflate the share price, sell them, and make a fortune?  I mean, what a great signal of good intentions to want to be paid in shares. Looks good to everyone, doesn't it.  It's a PR thumbs-up, and a very shrewd move from a McKinsey trained and very savvy businessman with lots of contacts.

Inflating the share price means the board and the Bang and Olufsen families either had a chance to bail out of their shares for a good price, or the company would be an attractive purchase for someone as the books looked good. Maybe the books don't look good once you turn the pages, otherwise someone would have bought B&O by now? 

I'd love to know how many shares Tue has left, and how many of the family and boards shares have been sold.  I think that would reveal a few things.

As I've found out - to the cost of my own B&O business, the world has changed. AV has changed. B&O isn't the all-powerful name it once was, and that once great name has been ridden like a mule up a mountain for too long now. 

The Danish will always be great designers. No doubt. 

But, when people demand Danish design, Made in Denmark, at China prices, it all falls apart.

Lee

jimcaj wrote:

Found this:

"Engineer Intern for Acoustics and Digital Signal Processing"
link

link

 

Millemissen wrote:

jimcaj wrote:

Found this:

"Engineer Intern for Acoustics and Digital Signal Processing"
link

link

 

I find it great that they are hiring new people to further improve the work in the acoustic department in Struer.

Good news for us.....

....at least for those of us, who still stick to B&O ;-)

MM

Millemissen wrote:

I find it great that they are hiring new people to further improve the work in the acoustic department in Struer.

Good news for us.....

Puncher wrote:

Millemissen wrote:

I find it great that they are hiring new people to further improve the work in the acoustic department in Struer.

Good news for us.....

Are we to take it that recruiting a student for one semester's unpaid work is a sign that everything is fine and dandy on the mothership?

 

Well there is no concrete proof that everything isn't fine and dandy on the mothership. All because someone wrote something on the internet doesn't make it true.

BenSA wrote:

Well there is no concrete proof that everything isn't fine and dandy on the mothership. All because someone wrote something on the internet doesn't make it true.

In the interest of fairness and balance, I have to agree with this. Lots of things are said and written, and just because they're said (or written) doesn't mean they're true either.

Sometimes, when I look at B&O now, I wonder if I'm seeing the birth of a star - or the death of a galaxy...

I'll be the first to fling my hands in the air and say "I have no idea" when asked.

Lee

BenSA wrote:

Puncher wrote:

Millemissen wrote:

I find it great that they are hiring new people to further improve the work in the acoustic department in Struer.

Good news for us.....

Are we to take it that recruiting a student for one semester's unpaid work is a sign that everything is fine and dandy on the mothership?

 

Well there is no concrete proof that everything isn't fine and dandy on the mothership. All because someone wrote something on the internet doesn't make it true.

 

Which is why I asked if anyone could confirm whether it was true!