The company operates worldwide and has several regional Headquarters in:
Japan (Japan, Tokyo, Kantō)
America (The United States, Ramsey, New Jersey).
Europe (Germany, Langenhagen, Lower Saxony)
Asia Pacific (Australia, Sydney)
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The company operates worldwide and has several regional Headquarters in:
Japan (Japan, Tokyo, Kantō)
America (The United States, Ramsey, New Jersey).
Europe (Germany, Langenhagen, Lower Saxony)
Asia Pacific (Australia, Sydney)
All regional Headquarters support several national operating companies or subsidiaries.
For details of all supported countries in each regional Headquarter, please refer to the Konica Minolta website.
Company history
Konica Minolta was formed by a merger between Japanese imaging firms Konica and Minolta, announced on January 7, 2003 with the Corporate Structure completing the re-organisation in October 2003. Different group companies, such as the operations in the headquarters and national operating companies began the process around the same time, however the exact dates vary for each group company.
Konica Minolta uses a "Globe Mark" logo that is similar, however not identical to the logo of the former Minolta company. It also uses the same corporate slogan as the former Minolta company - "The Essentials of Imaging".
On January 19, 2006 the company announced that it was quitting the camera business due to high financial losses. SLR camera service operations were handed over to Sony starting on March 31, 2006 and Sony has continued development of cameras that are compatible with Minolta autofocus lenses. Konica Minolta withdrew from the photo business on September 30, 2006. 3,700 employees were laid off.
Konica Minolta closed down their photo imaging division in March 2007. The color film, color paper, photo chemical and digital mini-lab machine divisions have ceased operations. Dai Nippon Printing purchased Konica's Odawara factory, with plans to continue to produce paper under Dai Nippon's brand. Seapac acquired the Konica chemical factory.
Manual focus 35mm film SLRs
Autofocus 35mm film SLRs
Until the sale of Konica Minolta's Photo Imaging unit to Sony in 2006, Konica Minolta produced the former Minolta range of 35mm autofocus single-lens reflex cameras, variously named "Minolta Maxxum" in North America, "Minolta Dynax" in Europe, and "Minolta Alpha" in Japan and the rest of Asia. This range was introduced in 1985 with the Minolta Maxxum 7000, and culminated with the professional Maxxum 9 (1997) later made in a titanium body (9Ti) and technically advanced 7(1999). The final Minolta 35mm SLR AF cameras were the Maxxum 50 and 70 (Dynax 40 and 60), built in China.
Digital cameras
Until recently, Konica Minolta had a line of digital point and shoot cameras to compete in the digital photography market. Their DiMage line included digital cameras and imaging software as well as film scanners.
