I attend the Linux User’s Group which meets once a month. Once the meeting got started this month we went around the room telling how the current economy is affecting our employment status. That is, “Do you still have a job?”; “If so, is your employer hiring?”; “Are you looking for a different job?”; etc. Although I could not offer any positions, I was glad to report that our company’s business health is currently on the upswing, while many of the others are being adversely affected by this current economy.
Even though it seems that every time I mention that our main product is monochrome CRTs someone at least implies that that has to be a dying niche, there is still a need. Clinton Displays is committed to fulfilling that need as long as we can maintain a profit margin that allows us to stay in business.
Of course, we have to stay alert to any possibility of new products or processes that can help us maintain a reasonable profit margin even long after the niche market for CRTs has ceased.
We welcome suggestions not only from within the company, but from our customers, from people that just stumble across our site looking for something that may or may not be related to what we do, or even from our competitors that might be struggling to justify continuing to manufacture similar product.
Tracy Henness