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...Konica Minolta shares trade more or less where they did when Mr Yamana became CEO....
...Corporate earnings reports out today include Nomura Holdings, AIA Group, Yahoo Japan, Capcom, Sharp, TDK, Konica Minolta and Fanuc....
...Permira teamed up with Japan’s Konica Minolta while KKR, which acquired Panasonic’s healthcare business for $1.7bn in 2013, partnered with trading house Mitsui to enter the race....
...Ricoh fell 5.5 per cent to Y502, while Seiko Epson shed 7.5 per cent to Y568 and Konica Minolta Holdings lost 4.3 per cent to Y511. Canon fell 0.9 per cent to Y2,678....
...Camera maker Konica Minolta rose 1.2 per cent to Y608 on reports its first-quarter operating profit was expected to rise about 70 per cent from a year earlier on higher sales in North America, China and...
...Konica Minolta gained 4.2 per cent to Y768 after the newspaper said it had clinched a large deal to supply office equipment to Allianz, the German insurance group....
...The funding for his new store came from imaging company Konica Minolta, an example of the trend for large companies helping out their smaller trade partners when banks are not lending....
...Orbis attacked the management of Océ on Wednesday, saying it had not invited Konica Minolta, a strategic partner of the Dutch company, to make an offer....
...Fanuc fell 5.3 per cent to Y11,050 and Konica Minolta shed 4.3 per cent to Y1,201....
...It said there would be no job losses as a result of the deal as there was little overlap between the two companies. Canon was advised by Mizuho Securities....
...Konica Minolta fell 10.1 per cent to Y891 on Friday, taking its weekly decline to 13.9 per cent after revealing a 98 per cent slump in quarterly net income....
...“For example, Konica Minolta has disclosed its cost cutting measures in a lot of detail. Nidec has as well, and as a result is seeing a V-shaped recovery.”...
...Canon has a strategic problem in the US where Japanese rivals Ricoh and Konica Minolta have bought previously independent distributors and started to squeeze out Canon products....
...Canon has been hard-hit by consolidation within the US market for office equipment distribution, as competitors including Konica Minolta and Xerox have acquired key distributors and shaved down the network...
...Ricoh, which competes with Xerox, Canon and Konica Minolta in printers and copiers, said it would pay $17.25 cash for each Ikon share, a premium of 11% to Tuesday’s close of $15.56....
...I have been testing two colour laser devices – the single-function Konica Minolta Magicolor 4650DN and the multifunction Canon ImageClass MF7480 – both aimed at the top end of the home office and broader...
...Konica Minolta shares also boosted the Nikkei, surging 12 per cent to Y1,672 after investors applauded its earnings forecast....
...ByBox couriers deposit parcels containing spare parts then “ping” notification to customers such as BSkyB, Konica Minolta and Coca-Cola....
...Through a combination of corporate moves, both Konica and Minolta’s camera businesses have been bought by other firms....
...Canon, the office equipment maker, was down 0.2 per cent to Y5,830, Konica Minolta was lower 1 per cent to Y1,520 and Toyota was 0.8 per cent lower at Y6,320....
...Konica Minolta increased 4.3 per cent to Y1,446. Among losers, Advantest, the maker of chip-testing devices, declined 0.5 per cent to Y11,190....
...Konica Minolta said it would cut 3,700 jobs, or about 11 per cent of the group’s global workforce, by September 2007....
...Konica Minolta joins a growing list of companies that are abandoning film photography. Nikon last week announced it would discontinue some SLR cameras to focus on digital models....
...Konica Minolta, the high-tech manufacturer, fell 2.3 per cent to Y1,438 as investors took profits in the wake of a post-reporting rise in the share price....
...Konica Minolta, the camera maker, fell 1.6 per cent to Y1,523 after Merrill Lynch expressed concern at the recent fast increase in its share price. But in general the degree of profit-taking was mild....
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