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This business company consists of the mainstay offi ce fi eld and the growth fi eld of
production print.
■Offi ce fi eld
Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc. is engaged in the
worldwide manufacture and sale of offi ce equipment centered
on A3 MFPs (multi-functional peripherals) and A4 MFPs based on
laser printers, as well as equipment maintenance services and IT
solutions.
■Production print fi eld
In addition to the existing business convenience store business fi eld,
offering services related to intensive in-house printing, copying and
data printouts, the Company is involved in manufacture and sales of
equipment for production print systems and graphic arts, and solution
services in the fi eld of digital commercial printing. Substantial market
growth is projected in commercial printing going forward, driven by
small lot printing of multiple items.
This business company consists of businesses in the fi elds of display materials, memory
devices and image input/output components.
■Display materials fi eld
Konica Minolta Advanced Layers, Inc. develops TAC fi lm for LCD
polarizers and VA-TAC fi lm for increasing viewing angle, both
of which are widely used in monitors for televisions, PCs and
mobile phones.
■Memory devices fi eld
Konica Minolta Optics, Inc. has businesses in pickup lenses for
optical disks, particularly objective lenses used in DVD and Blu-
ray Disc™ drives for AV equipment and PCs, in addition to
glass substrates for HDDs used mainly in 2.5-inch hard disks for
notebook PCs.
■Image input/output components fi eld
Operations involve the development of lens units for digital cameras,
digital video cameras, and mobile phones with inbuilt cameras.
In the healthcare fi eld, where digitization is gaining momentum, Konica Minolta
MEDICAL & GRAPHIC, INC. is promoting manufacture, sales, maintenance and
service businesses for diagnostic imaging systems, centered on high-resolution
digital X-ray diagnostic image readers that take advantage of cutting-edge image
processing technology.
■Market position (Konica Minolta Estimete)
Display
materials fi eld Top share
Near complete dominance
in Blu-ray Disc / recordable DVD market
Ranked 2nd in industry
Display materials fi eld
VA-TAC fi lms
Plain TAC fi lms for
LCD polarizers
Pickup lenses for
optical disks
Glass substrates
for HDDs
Ranked 2nd in
industry
■Market position
Offi ce fi eld A3 color MFPs: Top-level share in markets
outside Japan
Share by
geographical region
North America Europe
Production print fi eld Global top share
No.2No.2
Japan
No.5
China
No.1
■Net sales for FY March 2012
Production print
field
Office field
18%
82%
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