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.
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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
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Among the findings of a new 2019 survey is that building a copier sales team has become more challenging because of a tight labor market and high turnover.
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.
Last week, we discussed the United States’ latest imposition of tariffs on Chinese-made goods imported into the United States. This...
by Kathleen Wirth · Published May 21, 2019 · Last modified February 11, 2020
On May 20th, Konica Minolta Europe issued a press release discussing the continued growth of revenue generated by its IT...
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.
This week, two of the big players in the printer/MFP industry reported earnings, with Xerox’s first-quarter earnings reflecting the impact...
Industry trade group, Recycling Times Media, which is based in China and represents the “remanufactured” toner-cartridge industry, continues to illegally post entire articles from Wirth Consulting without permission.
“Imagine a multifunction product, and then embedded inside that multifunction product is a platform that can run all the services for that SMB.”
As Amazon made it easy for thousands of Chinese vendors to sell to Americans, Office Depot could be also making it much easier for Chinese vendors to sell printer and copier consumables to Americans.
Continuity Solutions’ employees will be joining Konica Minolta’s “IT Weapons” IT-services division, a provider of secure cloud solutions and managed IT services.
Among the many, many things that try men’s souls, high on the list is trying to renew a lapsed domain...
Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. announced today that its Japan-based headquarters, Konica Minolta, Inc., has joined RE100, a global leadership...
by Kathleen Wirth · Published February 7, 2019 · Last modified February 26, 2019
This week’s news was dominated by Xerox, which at its Investor Day meeting this week, outlined a broad set of...
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