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Subject: [OM] Re: Olympus news
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 06:40:13 -0400
Digital SLR's for the ladies.  Sounds more like the E-5000 than the E-2.

Chuck Norcutt

ALI wrote:
> Original News (in Japanese Language)
> 
> http://today.reuters.co.jp/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2006-05-11T163930Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_JAPAN-212967-1.xml
> 
> And thereis a "Good Samaritan" trying to translate this it into english,
> here is the translation.
> 
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> According to Japan Reuters news, Olympus President Kikukawa plans to
> have major focus in the DSLR camera business in the future, aims
> towards a 2 times increase in gross sales within 3 years making 60
> Billion Yen. He is proud to have a precise process technology and will
> launch "a miniature attack in the digital single-lens reflex camera
> market". Although currently the two top players are Canon & Nikon,
> President Kikukawa is confident that he aims towards the industry
> number 2 position. The Olympus present term (period of March 07) with
> digital single-lens reflex gross sales possibility approximately 28
> Billion Yen. Same Period of March 06 was approximately 21 Billion Yen.
> 
> The reasons Olympus strengthening digital single-lens reflex camera
> business, besides the fact that there is a tendency where the consumer
> are moving to digital single-lens reflex from the digital camera,
> there is also increasing popularity among women consumer, which is a
> growth characteristic of the market.
> 
> In the digital single-lens reflex market, although Kyocera and Konica
> Minolta exited the market, SONY and Matsushita Electric Industrial
> Co., Ltd. (Panasonic), who are stronghold camera manufacturers, enter
> into the digital single-lens reflex camera market. The companies will
> compete to increase share of the market and the competition is severe.
> On the one hand, Olympus plans to invest 45 Billion Yen in plant
> investment each year for the next 3 years. Plant investment expense of
> 2006 March period is at 44.4 Billion Yen. In the future, Olympus will
> continue the investment of the same scale. No large-sized production
> factory construction is planned.
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