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Net Sales
(Billions of Yen)
2004 2005 2006 2007
625.8
564.8 606.7 658.7
Operating Income
(Billions of Yen)
0
200
400
600
800
2004 2005 2006 2007
62.9
55.8
65.1
80.0
0
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80
Business Technologies
High growth in sales, supported by expanding sales of color
MFPs for general offices and high-speed MFPs for production printing, resulted in a higher operating income ratio.
For the fiscal year ended March 2007, Konica Minolta worked to expand its business base in color MFPs for general offices where high
growth is expected, and in the production printing area targeting customers with large printing volume.
In color MFPs which are seeing growing demand in major regions such as Japan, the U.S., and Europe, the emphasis was on
expanding our product lineup of medium- and high-speed models. We further strengthened our product lineup by introducing four new
models, bizhub C300, bizhub C352, bizhub C252, and bizhub C550, in the general office segment where market growth continues.
Customers highly value these new products for their abundant network functionality that is compatible with networked office
environments, the latest security functions, high print picture quality that is based on Konica Minolta’s proprietary polymerized toner
with fine, uniformly sized particles, advanced imaging technology, the use of tandem engines for high speed output, and high cost
performance. As a result, sales recorded strong growth centering on the European markets.
Consequently, the high unit growth of color MFP sales exceeded unit growth for the market as a whole. In addition, the Group’s
general office-use A3 paper-adoptable tandem-type color MFPs established a market position within the top group in the priority
markets of Europe and the U.S..