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round of layoffs was enacted by executives at Vulcan who intended to restructure the company, increasing its development budget and investing in newer manufacturing equipment while making the company's production schedule and payroll leaner. In August 1994, Vulcan increased their stake in
Cardinal to 50.35 percent after accusing Cardinal of overstating its value in documentation presented to Vulcan before September 1993's stock sale. The company thereafter focused only on the production of multimedia
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of France. In 1987, Krall and several of his colleagues from RCA bartered for the acquisition of the
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Cardinal turned its first profit in 1990, earning $ 600,000 on sales of $ 33 million. Employment numbers at the company's
Lancaster headquarters hovered between 200 and 220 workers from 1991 to 1993. The company broke even in profits in 1991 and posted a loss in 1992. Its stature in the modem
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company, representing a stake of just under 20 percent of the company. Between
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completed their acquisition of the ailing RCA Corporation, divesting RCA's New
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and chroma keyer for superimposing digital graphical and textual elements over a videotape feed generated from the computer back onto tape. It also allowed for computers to import photographs from
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