Who owns kodak film

Strong in , Kodak is now a global technology company focused on print, digital imaging, photographic materials, equipment and services, advanced materials and chemicals. The company provides hardware, software and services to customers in commercial print, packaging, publishing, manufacturing and entertainment.

Kodak is applying its materials science expertise, which has its roots in film manufacturing, to new applications ranging from touch sensors to 3D printing and beyond. We are looking for partners that are going to go the extra mile and bring their expertise to the brand portfolio. Half of their customers use it for video conferences and online meetings — not just for content creation.

We also had very good performance on home projectors and instant printers. Projector sales increased by percent in the first quarter versus last year. Kodak is also in the smart home category. Its line of baby monitors and security cameras performed well in , and saw an increase in sales last year as more people stayed home. This time it's Kodak, whose film and chemistry business Kodak Alaris is being sold to a Chinese corporation. That's according to a story by Inside Imaging , which reports that a proposed sale of Kodak's paper, photochemicals, display and software business was announced internally within Alaris on 07 July.

The report states that the buyer is Sino Promise Holdings, which also distributes Canon and Epson photo printers. According to Inside Imaging it is the largest distributor of Kodak Alaris in the world, supplying 8, retailers in the Asia Pacific and Russian territories, and it also manufactures chemicals and a number of paper and film stocks for Kodak having acquired a factory from Alaris in What's noteworthy is that Kodak's film business, which accounted for over a third of the company's revenue over the past year, is not part of the deal.

One of the businesses listed was Kodak. How things have changed! They were right—the economy has collapsed! It's almost like the same folks who, forty years ago, were on about what a bad idea it was to break the unions, fire all the workers and move our entire supply chain out of country because shareholder equity, and "it's cheaper" had a pretty good point. We told you so.. It isn't cheaper, long term. Now our supply chain is broken due to the Covid and let's not forget that stupid trade war..

And as a bike shop owner, I literally cannot buy tires or tubes-let alone bikes-because none of it is made in the USA anymore. But hey, individual humans own as much capital as over 90 percent of everyone else in the whole world, and they don't have to pay taxes on it. That's about 32 million households that can easily afford an expensive camera system and close to 50 million that could buy one with a bit of saving. Poverty level now stands at I never argued that there weren't plenty of people struggling.

But as I said above, there are still tens of millions of households that could buy a camera if they wanted one. They DON'T want cameras. Simple as that. No it just moved to something else. Passed a Corvette this morning with a 60 ish couple in it.

The front was wrapped in plastic imagine large clear garbage bag flapping in the wind. I bet they had a Leica or Sony mirrorless with them. Sorry had to drop in a Sony as this thread seems to be missing the required mentions. That's about 32 million households that can easily afford an expensive camera system and close to 50 million that could buy one with a bit of saving". How much of that money is left after fixed costs, debt servicing and education costs You are right, nobody can afford anything in the USA.

Nobody buys anything here because we are all too poor. All of the Americans on this site don't really have cameras. In terms of absolute numbers there are plenty plenty of Rich Americans and Canadians As a percentage not so much The three wealthiest men on the planet are Americans. That doesn't mean that everyone is, however; these three own as much capital as what, the entire bottom half of people in the whole USA?

But I think the Coronavirus pandemic is going to get a bunch of landlords and greedy developers to have a collective "Come to Jesus" moment about how freaking insane rent prices are around here..

You guys are sure pessimistic. We even have money for vacations and fun toys like cameras. We aren't all living off credit cards. Most of my coworkers are in similar situations, if they haven't made themselves house or car "poor". Sure some areas of the country are more expensive than others, but those tend to have higher salaries on average.

I'm from SLC, and now live outside Seattle. Real Canadian wages are far lower After that I worked for the University of Guelph with the mandate to fulfill a part of a 4 year research proposal start to finish They paid me less than the unionized employees sweeping the floor I no longer know a person employed making even 65K.

Not even one of my science colleague who are not profs make anywhere near 65K. WRT Canada's Covid response.. And, can verify: Much of that expensive healthcare is crap in terms of it covering you when you're sick.

And waiting in line doesn't happen out in the sticks-it happens in downtown Seattle. And you'd be paying over three grand a month in rent.. I find it disturbing that everything is sold off to China. The Shareholders don't care instead of taking social responsibilities. Most company leaders forget that they have become rich with their local workforce before moving everything abroad. Corporations exist for the sole purpose of making money for their shareholders. How they make the money is not part of their legal mandate.

Yes unfortuntaly this is the interpretation of today. Because of those shareholders we have this huge amount of pollutions and environmental damage. In the EU environmental laws are for strickt than in Asia You can be glad that I am ot in politics. I would make things so expensive that it will not be worth anymore that things are made in China.

Would you feel better if it was sold off to America? Because that is what happened in the 80's and 90's when America went on a spending spree and gobbled up many companies. It's time for China to be the economic superpower. America has become less relevant with progressive policies in which goals is to share prosperity with the rest of the world. You can easily avoid buying "made in china". That's not a law of nature, a law of economics, and setting aside anti-rackets laws which are there as money laundering prevention that's not a law.

The fable you cite as a "law", or rule, is a New York Time Magazine essay written by the fraud Milton Friedman in circa A lot of people on "one side of the isle" believe have been told to believe by their cloud sycophants the government is responsible for the out sourcing of American jobs Profiteering by corporations in search of more profits at the expense of the U.

Everyone of us wants to have stability in our lives. Stability comes with all sorts of labour available between all social strata. Now you have only highly paid jobs in the cities but the manufacuring and labour intensive industries has vanished from most Euorpean cities because the wages cannot be paid for a normal worker but the Bank manager still want their 10million bonus even if the manager's perfomance was bad. Ronald Reagan broke the unions as almost his very first Presidential act-he was wholly owned by the petroleum industry and the Corporations.

Greed is good. Poor people suck. I grew up on the wrong side of Reagan's ethos.. During the Nixon era, CEOs went to prison for doing things that 's Citizens United ruling codified into law as being just fine-Corporate money equals speech and infinite amounts of it can be poured into elected officials' pockets.

So yes, it is exactly Corporate greed and malfeasance that put us where we are. We fight endless wars for their interests, we starve the least among us so the Corporation doesn't have to pay taxes.

We put provable idiots like tRump in charge so as to ruin our standing upon the world stage, our media flooded with conspiracy theories presented as truth. And it isn't just the R's either.. Western corporations are only interested in a "rape me" level of profit. Presumably, asian ventures are satisfied with a simple profit. Now you know why western corporations give bonuses to executives while selling their manufacturing divisions and laying off employees.

Sylverphoto America is a laughing stock of the world right now. I think it's funny that nearly every post by a pro America MAGA type is full of grammatical errors, misspelled words and other logical errors. Just goes to show all who bother to read why America has failed.

The public isn't well educated. Kodak took a big fall and it had everything to do with their management and not much to do with foreign countries. Eric Hiss, Well if it the managemanet failed, and they did, then they should have concentrated the businesses to make ik it more lucrative. Kodak introduced half-baked products of poor value. I wonder why? Just to earn the quick cash?

They could have done so much more. And this is annoying with a lot of old large companies who have never learnt to re-position themselves as markets evolve. I need a new film scanner anytime soon. A Pakon-Scanner with more resolution would have been awesome. However, Kodak did not see the need - and there are many photographers out there now shooting analogue. This is off topic. The Management failed. Sylverphoto said: " And this is annoying with a lot of old large companies who have never learnt to re-position themselves as markets evolve.

Olympus has bailed-out of the consumer camera business. Rodenstock and Schneider have switched to machine vision.

That's three companies who are evolving away from photography. Konica Minolta camera business was sold because it was succesful but not profitable enough for the greedy people.

Rodenstock, so I have heard from someone who works there, produces lenses for Leica. The photo division has been sold multiple times. If a division is past on all the time this is not good for company assets. However the Schneider branded lenses were all made by Mamiya.

Not saying that they are bad. Zeiss lenses are made by Cosina or Tamron as widely known. Schneider never really made lenses for Nikon or Canon. The lenses they made were specialist tools TS lenses and insanely expensive. But look at China. I've had the paradigm of "revenue over everything" for years, from the damnable tax inversions to activist investors to catastrophe of Time to learn more.

Constantin V Generally speaking I am for quality and I am for locally produced goods. I am not ranting about Leica prices, I simply cannot afford one. Zeiss is in my reach but a new body is out of reach - I haven't upgraded my camera body since But this is all off topic. As having explained earlier a healthy popultion within cities consists of all soacial strata.

Who is stacking the shelves at your local supermarket etc They are equally important as managers or enigneers.. Moving and selling everything to China is bad for the quality of life you enjoy now. If you look at food, basically all canned fruits, tomatos, tomato puree and what not is from China. China is steering the EU and the EU is no longer independend. All those workers have to live outside the city and commute in-furthering pollution, traffic congestion and requiring more cars.

Here in Seattle, we're always told how every old house and building is torn down and replaced with some ugly Corporate shoebox is wholly necessary because "density".. There should be a law that the percentage of new units built should mirror the affordability by the income bracket percentage of local residents. So the developers pay no taxes, get huge profits, and taxpayers subsidize some of those units to be affordable to the food stamp receiving Amazon workers who have to live there and commute to Seattle.

Because you know, Amazon is a struggling startup who can't afford to pay its workers a living wage.. There's a difference between "rich" as in I bust my butt and grow my bike shop into a business that cracks the seven digit mark in gross sales.. I'm actually pretty happy with my shop being smaller-far less to worry about in a bunch of ways.

And I regularly give of myself and to charity. Probably why I won't ever be a billionaire. There's a big gulf between wanting a Leica SL2 and some lenses versus a yacht with another smaller yacht inside it-and the sociopathic tendencies needed to accrue that kind of fortune in one lifetime. Same here, I run my own business for 8 years now. It is stuggeling and I always just out of the costs. However, I am on the limit of what I can do. I need a second enigneer but I don't have the funds for that.

And now, the corona I don't need to discuss that. Save your money and wait until they buy Olympus. Maybe you'll be able to get a 2 for 1 deal. Well, trying to understand what Kodak is today is a complicated thing. JK imaging holds the license to use the Kodak brand on digital cameras and projectors.

Sino Promise group will my guess continue producing analog film and photographic paper under the Kodak brand? What's left of Kodak-Alaris is focusing on "information capture solutions and digital transformation.

The Other Kodak is in the digital printing business combined with cinematic analog film for Hollywood and the strange new "super-8" project.

What a strange mess. Eastman Kodak hasn't sold photo film or paper since it sold that business as part of Chapter 11 restructuring in The consumer-facing film business was sold to pay of debts owed to the pension fund of Kodak workers in the UK. That's Kodak Alaris. Richard Butler it's even more confusing now. Who makes the famous film? And who uses U.