John, Nikon is not a particularly large company! See: http://www.bythom.com/oldnews.htm Note the loss of income for 2005, without much enthusiasm projected for '06... Eric Goldstein -----Original Message----- From: John Browning <j_browning@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Jun 16, 2005 3:21 PM To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Kodak Discontinuing All B&W Paper I think I've read that Kodak had some of the best selling digital consumer cameras over Christmas, in the US. As to overall profitability, I'm under the impression that Kodak is finding the woods getting darker not lighter. I don't have any real knowledge of Nikon except that it seems to expand, year after year, in the areas where it's active. Where has Kodak consistently expanded? With large companies, like Nikon, there is a difficulty understanding what part any niche plays in the total picture, a problem that also makes reading Canon accurately difficult. Canon has also, of course, expanded continuously. Nevertheless, the visibility of Nikon and Canon's persistent expansion may admittedly hide a low level of profitability and these companies efforts are financed by other operations, or socialized via Japan's legal-business structure which puts high costs on the consumer rather than business. Nevertheless, the visibility and prominence of the expansion certainly gives the impression of success. John --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at http://www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list