Friday, May 30, 2008
Konica Minolta annual confab in Cebu a smashing success
KONICA Minolta Business Technologies, Inc. (KMBT) held its annual distributors’ conference with smashing success at Marco Polo Cebu Hotel on May 22-23.
The two-day conference drew 114 participants from distributors of Konica Minolta worldwide including Japan, Australia, Germany, South Africa, Brazil, U.S.A., Indonesia, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Latin America, Iran and the Philippines.
With its theme, “The Year of Challenge,” the conference was formally opened by KBMT executive director and general manager, Atsushi Kodama.
“Our emphasis is on expanding the bizhub series product lineup and sales in the high and medium speed segment of color multi-function peripherals (MFP),” said Kodama. “We also aim to provide a wide range of solutions that will address the office’s needs to synergize both paper and digital documents, making business communication smooth and efficient.”
As offices are increasingly getting interconnected, the new color machines from Konica Minolta are designed with full-scale compa-tibility to provide total network solutions.
For fiscal year 2008, high growth rates are expected in the color MFP segment for general offices as well as in the production printing area targeting customers with large printing volumes.
“The shift is really towards color printing,” said Edilberto B. Bravo, chairman and chief executive officer of U-BIX Corp., the exclusive distributor of Konica Minolta in the Philippines. “Our goal in U-BIX is to aggressively expand our customer base for color machines, and help our customers realize that in the long run, having a hybrid machine that can print and copy in both monochrome and color would more than double economic gains in terms of reduced costs, heightened efficiency and
vigorous productivity.”
U-BIX Corp. has been the exclusive distributor of Konica Minolta machines since 1974.
It was a solid partnership that started 34 years ago with Konica Corp. for its plain paper copiers and remained strong even after the merger with Minolta Co. in 2004 for Konica Minolta multi-function machines.
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