website: www.casameo.it

If you are looking for a magical vacation site, immersed in Tuscany's green landscape, here is a history-laded house offering comfortable rooms within easy reach of the most remarkable Tuscany's spot, and not far from Florence.
Our own ExScite veteran Reuven Anati (who had been born in Italy) and his wife Erela bought the Casa Meo house and have converted it into a magnificent 6 room B&B. Located in the heart of Italy's Casentino area, the house had been built in 1541 and was restored by Anati recently.
Great place, very reasonable daily rate, friendly service and Ex-Scitex atmosphere, combined with a breath-taking view and immersed in intoxicating Tuscany air. Casa Meo, is the perfect vacation spot.

Contact Reuven and Arela (Hebrew, English and Italian) at:
Email: info@casameo.it
Tel: +39 0575 570 498
Address: CasaMeo Loc. Pagliericcio, 74 52018 Castel San Niccolo (AR), Tuscany, Italy

Happy new 2010 from the ExScite team.

The graphic presentation of the Scitex logo wavering in the wind, is a cut out section of one of Shmulik Succari's illustrations from the good old days.

Phase One Buys Leaf Assets. Leaf Imaging is now part of Phase One company

Medium format camera maker Phase One takes over portions of the Leaf business, and will enter a licensing agreement with Kodak, Phase One announced in a press release today. It's the latest step toward consolidation in the medium format camera space. Earlier this year, Phase One announced it was investing in Mamiya.
COPENHAGEN and TEL AVIV, June 25, 2009 -- Phase One A/S, in conjunction with senior management employees of Leaf, today announced that they have created a new entity, Leaf Imaging Ltd., to purchase certain assets of the Leaf camera business. The assets include the “Leaf” brand product names, engineering design and production tools. The new entity will also enter into an intellectual property license with Eastman Kodak Company that is royalty-bearing to Kodak. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Phase One is a small provider of digital image capture and work flow management technology. Phase One www.phaseone.com is an employee-owned company based in Copenhagen with offices in New York, London, Tokyo, Cologne and Shanghai.

See a Phase One press release here

For those of you interested in the historical perspective, we posted on ExScite.net a comperhensive historical summary of Scitex from its inception in 1968, until the end of the last century 1999.
This article, and the long list of reference sources at its end, may be a good source for historical studies. Click on the link Read Complete Story below.

The ExScite Yair Shamir was a guest on Kol Israel, the Israeli radio service (Ha'arachat Mtzav, Spet 21, 2009, Reshet B)
To listen to the 1 hour program, click here.
The recording is in Hebrew.
Yair manages venture capital firm and is the chairman of the board of Israeli Aircraft Indusry.
See additional profile here.

This Saha Tove was Emailed to us by the Israeli ExScite- Shmuel Dekel

NICE CEO, the ExScite Haim Shani, to be named Treasury chief
Shani will replace Yarom Ariav after the Knesset passes the budget.
Adrian Filut 8 Jul 09 16:48

Minister of Finance Yuval Steinitz today appointed Haim Shani, CEO of NICE Systems and former Scitex employee, as director general of the ministry in pace of Yarom Ariav. Ariav is due to leave after the 2009-2010 budget is approved by the Knesset in a week's time.
Shani holds an MBA, and a first degree in industrial engineering and management.

Ariav's term as director general of the Ministry of Finance began in January 2007, when Abraham Hirchson was minister. Since then, he has served under Ehud Olmert, Ronnie Bar-On, and Steinitz.

NICE Systems said that the company did not respond to rumors. The Ministry of Finance spokesperson and the finance minister's bureau categorically denied the report.

Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes.co.il - on July 8, 2009

Moshe Obertziger reports from Israel:

A new company has been registered in IL with the name Scitex Precision Technologies Ltd.
The company is subsidiary of ACM (Malaysia) which had acquired the Scitex Mechanical Plant. The operation is located in Kfar Saba Israel and most  employees are ex Kodak/Creo/Scitex.

In the picture above is a sample of visit employee card.
If you have additional information about: 1) ACM Malaysia, 2)Pictures and stories about Scitex/ACM, please send me.

As you recall, in July 2006 we informed you that Malaysia's ACM buys Kodak Israel's automated processing business.

ACM is already a supplier to Kodak since several years. ACM has companies in Malaysia, Singapore, China and Israel (Axiom Precision). ACM annual revenues is US$35 million /year and its key customers are Kodak, HP, Xerox.
ACM Group is  specialized in:
*Critical Precision Engineering Components
*Precision Optics
*Electromechanical Assemblies
*Module/Sub system Equipment Integration

Kodak will lay off 150 employees at its Petah Tikva plant in Israel.

[Nov. 2008] The company plans to transfer one of its production lines for advanced pre-printing systems from the Petah Tikva plant in Israel to China, said the Israeli business paper Globes. Due to this transfer the company will lay off 18% of its workforce (150 employees) at the Petah Tikva plant. Kodak will still have 650 employees at the Petah Tikva location, down from 1100 in its heydays.

See article in Hebrew here.