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Maximizing Management Integration Benefits
• Further promote growth strategies
• Become a global Konica Minolta
• Expand top genre fields
• Achieve high profitability
• Further improve financial position
Mar 2005 Mar 2006 Mar 2007
Profit
Integration benefits
• Restructure Photo Imaging business
• Promote employee integration
• Pursue new brands
• Enhance management infrastructure
Preparation phase
Expansion phase
Significant growth phase
Business Technologies
Reinforcing Profitability in the Core Business Technologies
Business
Konica Minolta has positioned the Business Technologies business
as a core Group business and will work to expand its activities
while raising profitability. To this end, we will accomplish the
objectives of our genre top strategy, the purpose of which is to
acquire a top position in specific regions and markets where we
can fully demonstrate our strength. To secure these top positions,
we are especially focusing on making use of our competitive
advantage in the fields of color MFPs, high-speed MFPs, and color
LBPs. As a result, this will enable us to acquire a dominant position
in a broad cross-section of the market. At the same time, we will
increase efficiency by accelerating efforts to realize integration
benefits and secure a major role in the production print sector by
leveraging the undeniable shift toward colorization and strengthen-
ing our capabilities in network solutions. Furthermore, we will rein-
force our competitive advantage through proprietary products such
as our polymerized toner and expand business scale by embrac-
ing alliance initiatives with strategic partners. On the back of these
measures, we are targeting segment sales of ¥740 billion and
operating income of ¥103 billion in the fiscal year ending March
31, 2007.
Optics
Intensively Allocating Management Resources to Accelerate
Growth in the Strategic Optics Business
In addition to the Business Technologies business, we have posi-
tioned the strategic Optics business as a core source of the
Group’s earnings. Accordingly, we will strengthen our activities in
this segment through the implementation of a number of initiatives.
First, we will secure a dominant market share in next-generation
optical pickup lenses through efficient technology investment.
Second, we will increase our business scale and profitability in
lens units and camera units for digital cameras and mobile
phones. Third, Konica Minolta will work to accelerate the business
development of high-value-added triacetyl cellulose (TAC) film for
large-size LCDs. Next, we will increase business opportunities,
thereby raising profitability by maximizing the synergy benefits of
integration. Finally, we will endeavor to expand production capac-
ity in line with growth in our business markets. Based on these ini-
tiatives, we anticipate achieving sales in the Optics business of
¥130 billion and operating income of ¥28 billion in the fiscal
year ending March 31, 2007.