If called upon, I will serve.

That will be the end of bno. lol

I don't think Tue's the problem - its the useless designers they've chosen after the passing of DL - that's the problem

BeoBoy68 wrote:

Where is the astonishment Wouah! from B&O ? The audio range is empty now and TVs have dust and are overpriced. Only home speakers and products for luxury cars are fine. Shame & sad. Mantoni out !

Products for luxury cars could change quickly.  Burmester Audio of Germany will be the high end audio option for the new model S Mercedes Benz.  I had thought MB would have chosen B&O because AMG is using B&O.

There is still time.  All is not lost yet at B&O.  The new products might be really great.  The closing of the stores problem could ease as well as the euro problems.  Things could be much better in 6 months time.

As for a new music player, I wouldn't consider it even if it had a great design.  My music player will be a Mac Mini and iTunes connected to an HDMI port on a BV11 and Beolab 9s.  Almost all my iTunes files are in Apple lossless format.  There are other choices of course but my point is a stand alone music player is pointless and not very appealing.  I have already experienced a music player with my Beosound 5 which was about $6000 when I bought it.

On that salary he is milking the company. He must have had a good sales pitch at the time of appointment, and the Board must have been desperate.

There's a financial crisis coming and Cyprus is the beginning. These guys at the top with multi million salaries and bonuses aren't going to be there for too long. Too many top salaries have been justified by making comparisons with salaries in the banking industry....... Totally unsustainable.

Graham

I have to say that the only thing that I can see that is exceptional about many of the products today is the price. They are not sufficiently distinguished and I would be loathed to spend serious money on products from a company that may not be there in five years time, when the warantee is needed

"Mantoni should leave his place and made marathons only !"

Excuse me - is this some kind of crusade you are preparing for in this thread?

Grrr! Millemissen

The 2011/12 annual report gives the total Board and Management remuneration, including shares, as 3.5+ 19.3=22.8 DKK m. That's about $3.9m or £2.6m.

So maybe that US Reuters listed salary should be in Kroner and isn't in $ at all.

So is Tue on $8m or nearer $1.4m? The latter would still seem to be on the high side judging by the state of B&O!

Graham

vikinger wrote:

There's a financial crisis coming and Cyprus is the beginning. 

I'm dreading this. Our March sales are down on February (and February was a quiet month), which is unprecedented. Usually March is a decent month, the start of Spring, people feeling optimistic, tax bills behind the self-employed etc.

There is a lot of unknown wary pessimism around about the future. I read this morning that gas and food bills could rise by 30% over the next few months, due to the extended winter/cold weather. This plus uncertainty over places such as Cyprus, are causing people to be a little wary of committing to making big purchases.

Mind you, on the subject of purchases, I still want a black-framed BV10-32 and no-one can find me one.

vikinger wrote:

The 2011/12 annual report gives the total Board and Management remuneration...

I think that's their bonus, shares and so on. Their wage will be fixed, but they will be assigned a bonus, depending on their personal performance, company performance and so on. So, $3.9 million shared across the top level management.

I'd assume the figures linked to above, on Reuters,  includes everything from that financial year (basic fixed wage, bonus, share allocation etc) for each board member.