Re: RUMOR: Dr. Mueller calls it a day So Twan ISN'T the CEO of Future Ind.???? Then who the hell is the CEO if it isn't Twan?? Who the hell was Robert working for if it wasn't Twan??? Angel? Hello. WTF? And I know that AUVL is a lighting company as the stupid name suggests. But when you are putting AUVL on all the Glass that used to say Dr. Mueller..well......you pretty much re branded the bed AUVL. And I don't care how badly you all want to confuse the American Tanning salon owners about who makes what and where it is made and who assembles what bed and what company hasn't been paid by whom or who owns the name and the molds and can anyone else get them and make them etc. Bottom line is, the US market sucks now and has sucked for a few years. Niche players like Mueller did great when things were booming but are DOA during a consolidation. If the EU doesn't figure out it screwed up royally with their new irradiance rules...look for a total crash in the EU tanning industry. But word is that they actually may be able to get that ammended somewhat PRIOR to the enforcement of the new law. (which currently is a clusterphuck as to when and how and what countries will enforcement start etc) Don Smiths article in the TANNING JOURNAL was dead on..and I may add, it was hillariously written in "Donsense" and the Europeans must have had a hellava time trying to understand what we here in the USA allready know we can't understand. KBL's distribution is worse in the US than Muellers was. Don't look for big things from them. They can't even figure out why the Muellers outperformed the hell out of them. Maybe they don't care either. |