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Also known as Eastman Kodak Company, Eastman Kodak

The Eastman Kodak Company, referred to simply as Kodak (), is an American public company that produces various products related to its historic basis in film photography. The company is headquartered in Rochester, New York, and is incorporated in New Jersey. It is best known for photographic film products, which it brought to a mass market for the first time.

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Kodak is an American company based in Rochester, New York that is best known for bringing photographic film to everyday consumers and continues to produce film-related products today. The company matters historically because it made photography accessible to the general public rather than just professionals, fundamentally changing how people could capture and share images.

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Key facts

Company.type
Public
Company.name
Eastman Kodak Company
Company.logo
Logo of the Eastman Kodak Company.svg
Company.logo_size
150px
Company.image
KODAK ROCHESTER.jpg
Company.image_caption
Headquarters in Rochester, New York
Company.traded_as
DJIA component (1930–2004) S&P 500 component (until 2010) S&P 400 component (2010 until it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2012)
Company.predecessor
The Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company
Company.location
Kodak TowerRochester, New York, U.S.
Company.area_served
Worldwide
Company.key_people
James V. Continenza (executive chairman and CEO)
Company.products
Digital imaging, photographic materials, equipment and services, batteries
Company.revenue
US$1.04 billion (2024)
Company.operating_income
US$110 million (2024)
Company.net_income
US$102 million (2024)
Company.assets
US$2.0 billion (2024)
Company.equity
US$641 million (2024)
Company.num_employees
3,900 (2024)

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Company

Jurisdiction
US-NJ
Headquarters
Rochester, US

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Type
Company, Funder
Founded
1888
Location
Rochester, United States
Also known as
Eastman Kodak Company
Status
Active

GRID grid.418652.c · ISNI 0000 0001 2364 8975

Official website

Eastman Kodak Company | Kodak

A global technology company providing industry-leading products and services for commercial print, packaging, publishing, manufacturing and entertainment.

kodak.com

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History of Eastman Kodak Company – FundingUniverse

Explore the history, profile and timeline of Eastman Kodak Company.

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Company is reorganized as a corporation under the name Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company. Snapshot photography is born through the introduction of the Kodak portable camera. Company is reorganized and incorporated in New Jersey as Eastman Kodak Company. Company introduces motion picture camera, film, and projector for the consumer market. Company enters the copier market with the debut of the Kodak Ektaprint 100 Copier-Duplicator. Kodak enters the market for instant cameras; Polaroid files patent-infringement suit against Kodak. Company expands its health imaging operations with the launch of the Ektachem 400 blood analyzer. A federal appeals court orders Kodak's exit from the instant camera market; a line of alkaline batteries under the Supralife brand is launched; Eastman Pharmaceuticals Division is established. Polaroid's suit against Kodak is settled, with the latter paying the former $925 million. George Fisher becomes the first outsider to head the company; Eastman Chemical is spun off to shareholders. The company's pharmaceutical arm, Sterling Winthrop, its diagnostics products division, and several other nonimaging units are divested. The WTO rules against Kodak in its dispute with Fuji Photo Film over access to the Japanese market; major restructuring is initiated. Kodak Picture Maker debuts; company acquires the DryView laser imaging system from Imation.

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Wikidata facts

Employees
97222
Revenue
1117000000
Official website
www.kodakmoments.com
Motto
You press the button – we do the rest
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Commons category
Kodak
inception
1882-00-00
Commons gallery
Kodak
social media followers
63830
floruit
1906-01-01
operating income
-561000000
net profit
-687000000
total assets
6239000000
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70 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Name
  • Founding
  • The Kodak camera
  • Expansion
  • Labor relations
  • Great Depression
  • World War II
  • Manhattan Project
  • Post-war expansion
  • Rivalry with Fujifilm
  • Shift to digital
  • New strategy
  • Bankruptcy
  • Post-bankruptcy
  • Current products and services
  • Advanced materials and chemicals
  • Materials
  • Chemicals
  • Industrial films
  • Motion picture<!--Sources on film needed-->
  • Still film
  • Traditional and digital printing
  • Brand
  • Batteries
  • Professional photo chemistry
  • Former products and services<!--Missing: photo CD-->
  • Photographic film and paper
  • Still film cameras
  • Slide projectors
  • Instant cameras
  • Image sensors
  • Floppy disks
  • Digital cameras
  • Digital picture frames
  • Kodak Gallery
  • Light-emitting diodes
  • Medical technology<!--Expansion needed-->
  • Document imaging<!--Expansion needed-->
  • Photocopiers and duplicators
  • Consumer inkjet printers
  • Photo kiosks
  • Photography On Demand
  • Motion picture and TV production
  • Operations
  • Subsidiaries
  • Kodak Teenage Film Awards
  • Notable people
  • Scientists
  • Photographers
  • Archive donation
  • Controversies and lawsuits
  • Early legal issues
  • Patent infringement
  • Anti-trust lawsuit
  • FIGHT
  • ''Polaroid Corporation v. Eastman Kodak Company''
  • Pollution
  • Departure from Better Business Bureau
  • Pharmaceuticals loan
  • Xinjiang social media post
  • Leadership
  • President
  • Chairman of the Board
  • See also
  • Notes
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • Further reading
  • External links

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Kodak’s transformation: Video interview with Kodak’s Jim Continenza ===================================================================

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