Kodak announced its first quarterly profit ($443 million) in over a year due to increased sales of its desktop color inkjet printers and MFPs. In 1988, it employed 145,300 workers, now it only has 20,300.
EFI gave out details of its last financial quarter:
- Revenue in North America declined 19%
- The Fiery division posted a drop of 34%
- In U.S., Fiery revenue was down 24%
- Net loss of $3.4 million
- Total revenue down 18% for $114 million
- Now has 1.7 million Fiery print servers in operation
- Inkjet printer revenue down 2% in U.S.
- Inkjet supply revenue up 24%
When asked about economic recovery, Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft stated; “When you have a financial crisis like that, it’s years of digging out”. The current economic situation is “the toughest Microsoft has ever faced”.
Xerox announced it is reducing what it pays U.S. workers in severance. Details:
- Will cut another 2,500 jobs
- “We are identifying various cost reduction actions to help us re-size our company in the face of significant revenue decline and to be getter positioned to invest going forward.”, according to Jim Firestone, President of Xerox.
- Instead of receiving 1.5 weeks for every year employed, now laid off workers will only get 1 week for every year with company
Toshiba stated that its net loss for its fiscal third quarter are less from a year earlier as its memory chip business recovered on demand for mobile gadgets.
- Cut its full year sales prediction by 6% as a result of continued weakness in economy
- Expects to lose 50 billion yen in current financial year
- No comment given on its MFP/printer business.
Toshiba still seems to be hurting, to me it's just a matter of time before they give up on the MFP business and concentrate on their core business.
In an article in the Wall Street Journal titled; “Ten Brands That Will Disappear in 2010”, the author included Kodak
Canon reported info on its last quarter’s financials:- Net profit of 61.6 billion yen (compared with 217.1 billion yen last year)
- Sales of 954.1 billion yen down 4.1%
- Digital camera sales were up, but copier/printer sales were down
- Predicts that net income will rise 52% to 200 billion yen ($2.24 billion) in 2010
- Predicts sales will rise to 3.45 trillion yen
- Copier/printers accounted for 51% of 2009 revenue
- Predicts that copier sales will rise 7% in 2010
-=Good Selling=-
Toshiba Corp. does not make copiers. Toshiba TEC, an independent, profitable subsiduary does. Toshiba TEC has new products in the pipeline.
ReplyDeleteIt's all under one umbrella called Toshiba, as a whole Toshiba is not fairing well. Thier marketshare is miniscule compared to others.
ReplyDeleteI can only speak for Canada with approx 7% marketshare and good Colour sales. Approx the same marketshare as Sharp and more than Kyocera.
ReplyDeleteToshiba is doing fine in the USA and worldwide. Your intel was wrong about most of the major changes in the industry over the past several years and you had nothing about Canon / Oce prior to this latest large industry acquisition.
ReplyDeleteWatch the A3 space for changes.
What is Toshiba's core business?
Anon:
ReplyDeleteIt's definate you're either a Toshiba fan or a Toshiba employee! Most of my intel is dead on! If you read the blogs and the P4P forums you'll see info on Canon/Oce and the others. One things I can tell you about Toshiba is that thier CORE business is NOT MFP's. Especially, when they relabel other manufacturers boxes!
BTW stop hiding behind ANON!
Also you have to decide if it will be for commercial use or for common house hold purposes. There are A3 printers with different capacities like papers per minute rate, so based on where you will need the printer, you should choose the A3 printer wisely and make the optimum use of it.
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