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Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe today announced its placement in the leaders quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for MFPs and Printers, Worldwide¹ published by Gartner, Inc.

“Recognition as a global leader in the highly competitive MFP and printer marketplace is what we have been working toward. To arrive in the leaders’ quadrant is great news for us and we are here to stay,” says Ken Osuga, President Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe. “Transforming to a comprehensive solution provider in the B2B sector, including award-winning technologies, solutions, and support, we now have confirmation that the direction we are heading in is the right one.”

Gartner's Magic Quadrant for vendors of multifunction products (MFPs) and printers worldwide serves as a guide for midsize and large organisations to identify and evaluate technology providers that deliver MFP and printer products and services. Gartner customers are increasingly seeking providers who can match their global presence and become partners in helping them with their printing and document management needs. Konica Minolta has been able to achieve its global standing as the provider of an industry-leading product portfolio while maximizing the full advantage of a multiple sales channel strategy delivering the hardware, software, and services to customers when and where decision-makers want to procure them.

This latest recognition caps a banner year for Konica Minolta’s award-winning line-up of bizhub MFPs.

Earlier this year, Buyers Laboratory Inc. (BLI) named Konica Minolta its 2011 Line of the Year award winner for the company's series of bizhub colour and monochrome MFPs. In the past two years, Konica Minolta has won more BLI awards than any other vendor and the product line-up has proved itself in the areas that matter most to our customers – reliability, ease of use, productivity and image quality.

For Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK), Jonathan Wilson, Market Development Manager, commented, “The Gartner report is a terrific endorsement of the customer centric policies Konica Minolta is now pursuing. As a company we have focused on customer needs with the aim of providing holistic document workflow solutions. These innovative policies are now paying off both in commercial terms and in recognition from leading industry analysts, such as Gartner. 2012 promises to be a dynamic and exciting time for Konica Minolta.”

*The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 24 October 2011 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the 'Leaders' quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.