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ANSWER
WE WILL STRENGTHEN OUR ABILITY TO OFFER PRODUCTS AND
SERVICES THAT CUSTOMERS FEEL THEY TRULY NEED.
In office MFPs, maintaining growth hinges on several factors. First is the launch of new products, as well as
greater product competitiveness driven by enhanced cost competitiveness. The Group must also reinforce
its Optimized Print Services (OPS) for proposing and providing greater office efficiency and higher productivity
from the customer’s viewpoint. We need to market this service to customers among whom our Group has a
powerful business bases. At the same time, we will focus on enhancing vertical marketing with dedicated
sales teams.
In production printing, we surpassed our rivals and held our leading position by developing the light
production printing domain. Going forward, we hope to leverage technologies and sales expertise honed in
this domain to expand our scope to medium and heavy printing in the commercial printing market where we
anticipate future growth. Specifically, we will launch new products, actively promote strategic partnerships,
and concentrate on strengthening our capacity to develop solutions that include software for workflows,
applications and the like.
Two areas where we anticipate increased demand are retardation film (VA-TAC film) for large-size LCD
televisions and glass substrates for hard disks. Konica Minolta is strongly competitive in these fields, and we
will augment production capacity in order to expand both our sales volume and shares in each area. We will
also take advantage of our optical technologies to enter the rapidly growing LED lighting field, where we will
extend our reach into fields beyond digital home appliances.
Elsewhere, we are also looking to extend our business scope in the inkjet sector, where growth in
industrial-use applications is expected. In addition to printer heads and ink for large-format inkjet printers,
we will branch out into sales of large industrial-use printers as inkjet technologies prepare to advance into
the field of commercial printing.
QUESTION
CAN YOU ELABORATE ON PROMOTING SALES GROWTH AND EXPANDING THE SCOPE OF
EXISTING BUSINESSES?
KONICA MINOLTA HOLDINGS, INC. ANNUAL REPORT 2010 13