Kodak was founded in 1880 by inventor George? Kodak was founded in 1880 by inventor George Eastman and is headquartered in Rochester, New York, USA. Kodak is one of the major players in the "information imaging" industry, a $385 billion market that includes devices (such as digital cameras and handheld computers), infrastructure (such as online networks and image-processing systems), and services and media (such as software, film, and paper to access, analyze, and print images). Kodak utilizes advanced technology, broad market reach and a range of industry partnerships to provide customers with innovative products and services that meet their needs for the rich information contained in their images.
The Company has several major business areas: Photography - providing digital and traditional products and services to mass consumers, professional photographers and cinematographers; Medical Imaging - providing traditional and digital image acquisition, storage and output products and services to the healthcare industry; Commercial Imaging - providing image acquisition, output, storage and output products and services to businesses and governments; and Business Imaging - providing image acquisition, output, storage and output products and services to businesses and governments. businesses and government; Components - providing optical components and sensor chips to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs); and Displays - designing and manufacturing the world's leading organic light-emitting diode (OLED) displays and other specialty materials.
The company's worldwide turnover in 2002 amounted to $12.8 billion, more than half of which came from markets outside the United States. Kodak's worldwide workforce totals approximately seventy thousand employees, thirty-nine thousand of whom are in the United States. With manufacturing facilities in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Australia, and China, the company sells a large variety of imaging products to virtually every country in the world.
Kodak invested US$1.26 billion in March 1998 to participate in China's state-owned enterprise reform, and reached a comprehensive cooperation with some of China's photographic industry, making a great contribution to the improvement of China's photographic industry as a whole, which was regarded as "a new model for state-owned enterprise reform" by the Chinese government.
In 2002, Kodak was recognized by the Far Eastern Economic Review as one of Asia's leading companies based on overall leadership, quality, innovation, management vision, financial position and value.