Talk:Vantiva
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rca telephones
editrca telephones are made by telefield s.a. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cyclone39 (talk • contribs) 23:01, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
The Thomson financial crisis is totally absent
editCurrently, this article doesn't explain at all why Thomson changed its name to Technicolor in January 2010. It was not a case of rebranding because they thought that Technicolor was a cooler name, but one of the consequences of an enormous financial crisis in 2009 which forced the company to a total financial restructuring in order to avoid bankruptcy - and one part of that restructuring was to change the company name.
This article currently looks as if it was produced by the Thomson/Technicolor PR people, avoiding all mentioning of problems. I had a look at the French page, and it contains some mentioning of the crisis, but very little, and on its talk page the French Wiki editors complain about constant rewrites done by Thomson staff to put the company in a better light. When checking this page's history, however, there seems never to have been any mentioning of this crisis, except at the end of a line talking about their sale of Grass Valley in January 2009. So the lack of negative news isn't the result of clean-up activities from Thomson's PR department, but a consequence of poor contributions from regular editors.
We need to improve this. Thomas Blomberg (talk) 10:37, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
Opinion / Problem on this page.
editI'm not a Wikipedia editor, but I think someone should take a look at the Controversies section.
"Thomson received the “Best IPTV platform/middleware/application” award during the 2007 IPTV World Series Awards in London for SmartVision, a service management platform, which was also partially developed in India. This group of 40 best engineers in their R&D lab in India were later sacked with the term "Recession"."
This looks like a former ex-employee criticizing the company rather than adding factual text. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.210.190.110 (talk) 21:17, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
The name
editSo this company existed since 1893 until 2011 under the name Thompson, but the article is called Technicolor. Technicolor, meanwhile, is some almost entirely unrelated company that, through a series of mergers, ends up rebranding Thompson for the last 10 years. So even though the company was known as Thompson for 118 years, and Technicolor for 10, this article is about "Technicolor" even though there's another article called Technicolor!
I would strongly suggest that this article be called Thompson SA, and there be some other, much shorter, article about the new Technicolor, which really has little in common with the former Thompson. After all, we still have Douglas Aircraft Company and McDonnell Aircraft Corporation in spite of their merger, so I see no reason why this isn't the same thing.
The name change of Technicolor SA to Vantiva
editTechnicolor SA was rebranded as Vantiva, shall the title of the company's article moved/renamed? Ridwan97 (talk) 22:23, 12 November 2022 (UTC)