InstantForum.NET v4.1.4TraditionalPhotographer.NEThttp://www.traditionalphotographer.net/forums/admin@traditionalphotographer.netMon, 01 Dec 2008 10:19:07 GMT20http://www.traditionalphotographer.net/forums/Topic224-23-1.aspxFound this article today:</P><P><A href="http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071223/BUSINESS/712230328/1001/BUSINESS">http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071223/BUSINESS/712230328/1001/BUSINESS</A></P><P>"(December 23, 2007) — Scattered across Kodak Park are patches of new landscaping: a walkway here, a roadside border there. Small red rock stone blankets the new features... "</P><P>However, buried in a sidebar was this tidbit:</P><P>"<STRONG>Film</STRONG></P><DIV class=factbody style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 8px">Kodak has no intention of getting out of the film photography business, at least for now, CEO Antonio M. Perez said.</DIV><DIV class=factbody style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 8px"> <BR>Photographic film, paper and processing services accounted for almost half of Kodak's $13.3 billion in revenue in 2003. For the first nine months of 2007, Kodak's film products group accounted for $1.5 billion in revenue. But it also accounted for $589 million in gross profit for those nine months. </DIV><DIV class=factbody style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 8px"><BR>With the cost-cutting the company has done in film, Perez said, "we have now a business that is sustainable. That business is going to be a good business for us for the next (few) years.""</DIV>Tue, 25 Dec 2007 18:44:30 GMTroteague