I was afraid this might be Boulevard. Whew.

AMC was already owned by private equity firms with no ties to Kansas City. Like the private equity firms, the Chinese buyer is not going to move the company out of Kansas City.
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H&R Block, Faultless/Bon Ami, Black & Veatch...

I wonder if Coke sales will drop
Dear does your Coke tasty xtra salty

I wish they had egg roll eating contests. I'm a sucker for a good roll.

Remember in the 80's when the Japanese were buying up tons of American businesses, land, etc? People were worried about the impacts that would have on our country. Remember in the 90's when their economy crashed and hasn't fully recovered? This sucks for now but who knows how long their spending spree will last and if they can even hold on to AMC for more than a few years if their economy tanks.

Or I may be full of rice.

I'm not sure that's true. Apparently Symantec had a joint venture with a Chinese company, which the Chinese company controlled, but Symantec is divesting itself of that interest.

Even if it wasn't, however, that doesn't mean that a Chinese company "owned" Symantec itself. The question that remains unanswered, to me, is whether the antivirus product IS a product of that former joint venture (which is now going to be 100% Chinese owned.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/te...-of-china.html

http://infosecisland.com/blogview/20...s-Venture.html

The Japaneses comparison is exactly what I thought of when I first read some of the responses to this thread.

I'm not concerned and I'll continue to see movies at AMC theaters.

Well, if the Red Chinese own all our stuff, they probably won't nuke us.

AMC and Cordish getting a divorce now.....interesting.


http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/24...-quits-on.html

Ya, and people freaked out and on the news they showed a group of average Americans worried about the Japanese takeover of America huddled around in some vacant parking lot with a couple of Japanese made cars- each taking turns at them with sledgehammers.

Hell, MAD magazine did a back cover spoof that the fold over was a pic of the White House with the new placard on the outside gates saying something like under new management: property of Japan.

I'm sad AMC isn't keeping its KC roots / ownership. Just remember not all buyouts are wise investments and there will most likely be a shift that hits China and those other emerging markets bc no countries economy is bulletproof- I think we saw that here a few years ago and its gonna take probably another 10 years to hopefully right the cluster**** we got handed by Wall St.

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