[Boatanchors] Int'l Crystal Closing their doors in May

[manualman at juno.com]

Actually Jim, the Radio Shack Logo and blurb started appearing on the ICM
web site around October 2000. Prior to that the ICM web site said "ICM is
a proud supplier to Tech America" which was Radio Shack's short lived
commercial venture.
Doing a quick archive search back to 2000, the same blurb is shown that
appears currently:
March 2012
Feb 2010
July 2007
Feb 2005
March 2001
October 2000
Feb 2000 showed the Tech America blurb

I doubt ICM closing has anything to do with Radio Shack filing a second
bankruptcy proceeding. Companies over the years can and have filed
multiple bankruptcy proceedings and go through court-appointed
restructuring and, although many are downsized in the end, can still
remain afloat. Time will tell with Radio Shack but that's another thread.

Pete, wa2cwa



On Sun, 12 Mar 2017 21:46:29 -0500 <w5jo at brightok.net> writes:
> That is true Pete, but I did business with ICM back a few years ago 
> and went 
> to their web site to pull the phone number.
> 
> That was about 8 - 10 years back and that logo was not there.  Maybe 
> in the 
> first bankruptcy the new owner of the RS name  began to do business 
> with 
> them.  I believe Sprint was the purchaser of some of the stores but 
> am not 
> clear on that point.  At any rate the appearance of that logo was 
> recent and 
> I cannot imagine RS needing crystals or any product the ICM 
> produced.
> 
> However, it is possible that they did start supplying RS with a 
> bunch of 
> supplies after the first bankruptcy and when they filed recently, 
> that put 
> the squeeze on ICM.
> 
> Jim
> W5JO