Kodak

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Kodak

Eastman Kodak Company is one of the world's largest manufacturers of photographic equipment. It develops, manufactures, and markets photographic and chemical products for both amateur and professional photographers. The company's other products include X-ray films, pharmaceuticals, copier-duplicators, acetate fibers, polyethylene, polypropylene, polyester, and videocassettes. Kodak also provides film and equipment for commercial fields such as the healthcare and motion picture industries. Kodak also manufactures photographic equipment for the government’s aerial, space, and other scientific needs, including the fabled satellite reconnaissance cameras that can read a license plate from orbit—at least according to the lore of the Cold War.

The American businessman George Eastman founded the company in 1880 as a result of his interest in making amateur picture-taking easier and less expensive. Eastman revolutionized photography in 1885 when he introduced roll film, which used a paper base instead of glass. The company marketed its first camera in 1888, and in 1889 it introduced the first flexible, transparent roll film for commercial purposes. The company's headquarters are in Rochester, New York.

Eastman was born in Waterville, New York. His family moved to Rochester, New York, in 1860. There, he developed a dry photographic plate, which he began manufacturing in 1880. In 1888, Eastman introduced the Kodak. This lightweight, box-shaped camera contained film wound on rollers, eliminating the need for glass photographic plates. By the early 1900's, the Eastman Kodak Company had become the largest photographic film and camera producer in the world. Research and technical improvements helped keep Eastman ahead of his competitors. Joerg D. Agin is the key decision maker of Eastman Kodak Company. Mr. Agin began his career at Eastman Kodak as an electrical engineer in 1967. He held a variety of assignments in the Motion Picture and Audiovisual Product Division.

Daniel A. Carp is the President and he began his Kodak career in 1970 as a statistical analyst and held a variety of increasingly responsible positions in market research, business planning, marketing management and line-of-business management, including general manager of Sales for Kodak Canada and general manager of Consumer Electronics Division.

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They’ve created a sustainable, profitable top-line growth for Kodak, expanding the use of pictures, expanding the market for pictures, and enabling convenience, easy access to pictures all around the globe. Kodak’s expectations for the year 2004, is the product to be the largest single product to be used by use the consumer. Also by the end of 2004 they expect to see and increases of $1 ½ to $4 billion of revenue . The recent growth strategies at Kodak have focused on digital imaging and strategic partnerships with AOL, eBay, and Hewlett Packard, giving the company a strong grip in the market.

Kodak will provide full-scale Local Area Network, Wide Area Network, and wireless telecommunication services. Kodak has formed an alliance with AT&T that enables Kodak to serve as a sales agent for AT&T's telecommunication services, managed services, wide area network services, and Web site services. This provides us with an entire digital imaging solution by connecting digital capture, processing, storage and output devices to meet our specific needs. Kodak can serve as your single point of contact for all digital imaging network needs.

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