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...Three companies made it to the top group: beverage and beer giant Kirin, electronics maker Konica Minolta, and printer and copier maker Ricoh....
...Konica Minolta shares trade more or less where they did when Mr Yamana became CEO....
...It had Y623bn of net cash at the end of September and said it would finance the offer from its own resources....
...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....
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