Quote Originally Posted by neuroanatomist
<p sizset="40" sizcache="12"]Cokin is a French company, and their French site, [url="http://www.cokin.fr/]www.cokin.fr[/url], is down. The USA site ([url="http://www.cokin.com/]www.cokin.com[/url]) redirects to the defunct French site. Reportedly, Cokin is having financial troubles...
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From dpreview posted July12th:
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"]"Kenko-Tokina has bought French filter maker Cokin. Cokin's parent company went into administration in November 2010, with supplies of the company's products becomingly increasingly scarce. The Japanese lens and accessory maker has said it will retain the square filter specialiast as an independent company, rather than simply utilizing the well-recognized brand-name."


http://www.dpreview.com/news/1107/11071104cokinbuyout.asp