🚀 go-pugleaf

Let's see what Shimadzu Scientific Instruments' paid henchmen (Terry
L. Adams, Mark Thorson, M. A. Sonjariv, Sam Adams, Sam Adamson, David
Bostwick, Joel Polowin, Mark Thorsen, Don Quixote and Our Buddy
George) will have to say about this:


The Bottom Line for Shimadzu

...Shimadzu's annualized growth rate is an awful 2.02%... while Fitch
Ratings notes that Agilent's "bio-analytical measurement (BAM) segment
(just over one-third of fiscal 2007 revenues) will continue growing at
a double digit rate over the next few years." Not so at Shimadzu!
Full text available at: http://hosted-communications.tmcnet.com/news/2008/03/24/3344113.htm

Meanwhile...
The end of this fiscal year (31 March 2007) for Shimadzu Corporation
is
an excellent time to sum up the results in lost sales which Shimadzu
has missed out on, in part, due to the persistent presence of this
audacious homepage, namely the Shimadzu Consumer Alerts website. As
of
31 March 2007, we had received over 900 unsolicited responses from
prospective customers who had completed our website survey and stated
that they won't be doing business with Shimadzu. These responses
translate into the following lost dollar amounts for Shimadzu :-)


131 GC x $15,000 = $1,965,000
315 HPLC x $30,000 = $9,450,000
87 LC/MS x $100,000 = $8,700,000
182 GC/MS x $50,000 = $9,100,000
63 MALDI x $100,000 = $6,300,000
396 UV/Vis x $10,000 = $3,960,000
140 TOC x $25,000 = $3,500,000
27 AA x $25,000 = $675,000
208 Fluorescence x $10,000 = $2,080,000


The grand total comes to ~ $45,730,000 in lost sales for Shimadzu.
You
could say that we're proud of our accomplishments, but our work
continues to remain unfinished.... stay tuned!


n.b. The 45,730 million dollar figure is a very conservative
estimate.
The real cost that will never be known is from prospective customers
who have watched from the sidelines as horrified onlookers to an
automobile accident who wouldn't give Shimadzu the time of day at
this
point!

n.b. According to the Shimadzu Financial Summary for the year ended
March 31, 2007 Shimadzu net sales (when adjusted for inflation)
continued to lull below those figures reported for the year ended
March
31, 1992. 201,439 yen in FY1992 versus 262,432 yen in FY2007
translates
to a 30.30 increase in sales. That's 15 years of stagnant growth and
15
full years of substandard performance. That's also 15 plus years of
inferior products which customers have shunned in droves! Shimadzu
has
been growing at an annual rate of a puny 2.02% for the past 15 years
and they use advertising words like "productivity, functionality and
sensitivity." Sounds like a cart full of $HIT-madzu.... are you
buying
it.... their $HIT that is!

n.b. While most other analytical instrumentation vendors have
witnessed
double digit growth year after year, Shimadzu has watched their
numbers
decline by single digits thru most of the 1990s to actual losses for
fiscal years 2001 and 2002. They managed to break into the black
ink.... but only barely for 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. Do you
want this inferior crap in your lab?

Old saying: "You can pay me now, or you can pay me later" (it will
just
cost more later)!

Other HPLC companies pump promises.... Shimadzu just sells SH*T!


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