Following its acquisition of its US distributor Vidco Inc of Longview, Texas for $2m cash and $5.5m in new Amstrad shares, announced just after we closed for press Thursday, Amstrad has turned the company into Amstrad Inc, appointing its president, Vernon Moore chief exective of Amstrad Inc. The move means that Amstrad now plans to go all out to become a major player in the US market, the first shoe having already fallen when Dixons Plc said a couple of months back that it would be marketing Amstrad’s machines through its two newly-acquired US chains of electronic retail stores. The aim is to increase the US to 30% of Amstrad turnover in the year to June 1988, up from 8% last year.