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...Corporate data: Suzuki Motor presents full-year results, while Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Mizuho Financial Group, SMC, Konica Minolta, Kajima and Japan Post, among many...
...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....
...Fujifilm climbed 6.2 per cent to Y1,388, making it the second-biggest riser on the Nikkei, while Konica Minolta Holdings, which makes optical devices as well as film for medical imaging, was just behind,...
...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...
...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....
...Konica Minolta Holdings, the copier and computer peripherals maker, fell 2.6 per cent to Y686, while camera maker Nikon lost 1.9 per cent to Y2,425....
...There has been strong demand because of the spread of flat-panel televisions but Fujifilm and Konica Minolta are the only companies that can manufacture it....
...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....
...Rival Ricoh rose 4.2 per cent to Y1,647 and Konica Minolta added 4.6 per cent to Y1,168....
...Fanuc fell 5.3 per cent to Y11,050 and Konica Minolta shed 4.3 per cent to Y1,201....
...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....
...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....
...Canon, the world’s largest camera maker, gained 2.5 per cent to Y4,325, Sony added 2 per cent to Y3,610 and Konica put on 3.5 per cent to Y1,096....
...“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.”...
...Konica Minolta’s shares rose 9.8 per cent to Y1,088 after Goldman Sachs raised its rating on the office equipment maker from “neutral” to “buy”....
...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....
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