Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!thelake!steve From: steve@thelake.mn.org (Steve Yelvington) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Atari selling Taiwan plant Message-ID: Date: 11 Jun 91 07:32:30 GMT Organization: St. Croix Valley rhubarb and tomato patch Lines: 9 X-UUCP-route: {rutgers,plains,decwrl}!umn-cs!thelake!steve The Wall Street Journal reports that Atari Corp. is selling its assembly plant in Taiwan for $60 million (and collecting an unspecified profit on the transaction) and will shift the work to subcontractors in Taiwan and Hong Kong. The article quotes an unnamed Atari spokesman as saying that the company lost $2 million in the first quarter because of problems in assembling ``a newer product line'' at the Taiwan facility. ---- Steve Yelvington, Marine on St. Croix, Minnesota, USA / steve@thelake.mn.org