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According to the Portland Business Journal, a group of “high-powered executives” plan to save InFocus Corporation (NASDAQ:INFS) from “New York sharks” who want to liquidate the company for a quick profit. The group, which includes Steve Hix, INFS’s co-founder, wants to buy the company if they can get financing. The group says its strategy, which entails expanding beyond projectors, could save the company. Said one of the group:

We’ve got some whispers that there’s a guy in New York looking at buying 50 percent of this company, and he’ll liquidate it. We are scared. We don’t want that to happen to this company. We’ve been working for nine months on a way to save it.

We’ve been following INFS recently (see earlier posts here, here, here and here) writing that it is a deeply undervalued asset situation with two activist investors, Nery Capital Partners and Lloyd I. Miller, III, pushing the company to “consider the views expressed by its shareholders and pursue new alternatives to increase shareholder value.” We see a second bidding group as a positive catalyst.

Hat tip to commenter Steven.