- Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc is the ultimate holding company and employs 30,200 staff worldwide.
- Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc had sales in fiscal 2007 of 1,027,631 million Yen (£5,074,900,000).
- Corporate activities include business technologies; optics; medical imaging; graphic imaging; sensing and measuring instrumentation; and industrial inkjet manufacture.
- Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc announced its complete withdrawal from the consumer photographic products and materials market in January 2006.
- Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc is responsible for the manufacture and marketing of document imaging technologies and generated net global sales of over £3.15 billion in fiscal 2005/2006. Total workforce is 19,800 employees worldwide.
- Konica Minolta document imaging systems are manufactured in plants in Japan and China. All are ISO9002 accredited for quality procedures.
- Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) Ltd is the British operating subsidiary for the sale and marketing of Konica Minolta document imaging systems and technologies.
- The current annual turnover of Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) Ltd is in excess of £150 million.
- Konica Minolta Business Solutions (UK) Ltd markets imaging systems and solutions through a direct sales force and a network of independent dealerships. There are 23 direct sales and service centres in strategic locations across the country and over 130 independent dealerships from Inverness to Newquay and Cardiff to Norwich.
- The current Konica Minolta product line up ranges from an entry-level 5ppm (print per minute) printer through to a 105ppm production print system for high speed commercial print applications. The latest generation of Konica Minolta document imaging systems are designated 'bizhub'.
- Konica Minolta bizhub printers and multifunctionals benefit from Konica Minolta's patented Simitri® HD Polymerised Toner with smaller, smoother, more uniform toner particles for more even distribution, significantly better fine line definition, and better solid fills.
- Independent market research conducted by Infosource places Konica Minolta fifth in the UK digital copier market with a 6.8 per cent share of the black and white market and a dominant 30.5 per cent share of the colour market (not including colour capable systems).
- In Europe overall, Konica Minolta occupies the number 1 market position in true colour.
