He was having health problems and some of his investors wanted to get out.

Three days later, a group of investors also saw value.

A. Many of our investors have followed us over time.

The average holding of its 65,000 individual investors is $22,000.

Now it is back, opened last month by another group of investors.

"The best thing would be to get money back in the hands of investors," he said.

He sold the company to a group of investors in 1987.

The $6 million was supposed to come from a group of foreign investors.

That will put them more within the reach of individual investors.

A group of investors said it was making a $25-a-share offer for the company.