RE: [Leica] [ OFF TOPIC ] Bitching against Kodak

["Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>]

Eric,

While I am not a bean counter, companies do have to be profitable, so they
are a necessary evil.  I think Kodak suffered from diminishing market share
in their core products. If not for the efforts of George Fisher they would
be half the size they are.  Although I am sure the employees at Kodak may
refer to him as a hatchet man, it was necessary as Fuji and others were
killing them.  
As good as Kodachrome may be, it is a small percentage of a few percent of
the film buyers.  Print film accounts for somewhere around 90-95% of film
sales.  So the K-14 MiniLabs were an attempt to improve the K-14 process and
keep it alive.  Only time will tell if its successful.

Peter K

- -----Original Message-----
From: Eric Welch [mailto:ewelch@ponyexpress.net]
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 1999 6:41 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] [ OFF TOPIC ] Bitching against Kodak


At 08:23 AM 3/2/99 -0500, you wrote:
>        I suspect Kodachrome will be history less than
>        2 years from now, unfortunately.

I don't think so. Otherwise they wouldn't have invested millions on the 
K-Mini lab.

But you are right, Kodak has sold out their position in the market because 
of bean counting. They used to spend a billion dollars a year, or something 
like that, in research. Not even close now. Stupid.

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

One should never generalize.