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Kodak was founded in 1880 by inventor George Eastman. 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 "info-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 technologies, 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 segments: Photography - digital and traditional products and services for mass consumers, professional photographers and cinematographers; Medical Imaging - traditional and digital image acquisition, storage and output products and services for the healthcare industry; Commercial Imaging - image acquisition, storage and output products and services for businesses and ****. businesses and *** image acquisition, output and storage products and services; Components - optical components and photoreceptor chips for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs); and Displays - the design and manufacture of 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 70,000 employees, 39,000 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 broad range 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 (SOE) reform, and reached a comprehensive cooperation with part of China's photographic industry, contributing greatly to the improvement of the overall level of China's photographic industry, which was hailed by China *** as "a new model for SOE reform".
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.