This Week in Imaging: Latest Financial Round-Up: Lower Sales, Profits
This was a significant week in the office-imaging industry, with multiple vendors reporting lower sales and profits, and warning of a slowing economy.
Canon / Epson / Featured Posts / Financial News / HP / Imaging Supplies / Konica Minolta / OKI / Ricoh / Sharp / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published August 2, 2019
This was a significant week in the office-imaging industry, with multiple vendors reporting lower sales and profits, and warning of a slowing economy.
Featured Posts / Financial News / Konica Minolta
by Kathleen Wirth · Published July 30, 2019 · Last modified September 17, 2019
Operating profit plunged to ¥0.5 billion, a decline of 96.4 percent year-over-year.
by Kathleen Wirth · Published July 10, 2019 · Last modified July 15, 2019
Currently available in 133 countries, MarketPlace provides a wide variety of cloud, scan, productivity, information, and security apps for Konica Minolta MFPs.
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 13, 2019 · Last modified June 24, 2019
On June 12th, Knica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. introduced its new bizhub i-Series, which it bills as its “next-generation IoT-enabled......
Featured Posts / Konica Minolta / Kyocera / Sharp
by Kathleen Wirth · Published June 13, 2019 · Last modified August 5, 2019
Konica Minolta joins Ricoh Company of Japan, which also recently announced that it will shift some of its copier/MFP production out of China.
The Office Business group’s revenue was up, due to higher sales of color copier/MFPs – primarily sales of high-speed color models – along with revenue contributions from the company’s IT services solutions.
On April 15th, Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe previewed its next-generation bizhub i-Series of A3 and A4 printer/MFPs.
“Imagine a multifunction product, and then embedded inside that multifunction product is a platform that can run all the services for that SMB.”
Continuity Solutions’ employees will be joining Konica Minolta’s “IT Weapons” IT-services division, a provider of secure cloud solutions and managed IT services.
Profit amounted to 33.7 billion yen, an 81.2 percent year-over-year increase.
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 1, 2019 · Last modified February 12, 2019
Designed for small and mid-size businesses, each Hub combines a multifunction printer, data storage, advanced cyber security features, an HP Enterprise server and Wi-Fi access points into a single device.
Acquisitions / Konica Minolta / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published January 15, 2019 · Last modified January 29, 2019
Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. today reported that it’s purchased the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) business segment from ThoughtTrace, Inc., a......
Konica Minolta / Managed Print & Document Services / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published January 10, 2019
Dispatcher Suite helps automate routine tasks, by enabling users to select copier/MFP touchscreen buttons that are customized for particular document workflows.
by Kathleen Wirth · Published December 7, 2018 · Last modified December 18, 2018
As challenges in China such as rising labor costs have started to emerge, Konica Minolta says its production outside of China has increased.
Canon / Featured Posts / HP / Konica Minolta / Lexmark / Managed Print & Document Services / Workflow Solutions / Xerox
by Kathleen Wirth · Published November 27, 2018
Based on deployment, the cloud-based MPS segment held maximum share in terms of revenue in the global MPS market in 2017.
Featured Posts / Financial News / Konica Minolta / News
by Kathleen Wirth · Published October 31, 2018
In the office products business unit, the number of sales of monochrome A3 MFPs declined year-over-year, but sales of color models grew considerably, resulting in an overall increase in sales volume.
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