Monthly Archives: February 2016

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Konica Minolta Announces Appointment of the President of Konica Minolta Japan Co., Ltd

Konica Minolta, Inc. today announced the appointment of Jun Haraguchi as the president of Konica Minolta Japan Co., Ltd., a new domestic company of the Konica Minolta Group. Haraguchi will take office as president on April 1, 2016.

Outline of Konica Minolta Japan, Co., Ltd.

Konica Minolta Japan, Co., Ltd. will be established on April 1, 2016 with the aim of capturing the top position in the following businesses by offering value added solutions to customers to help them transform their digital workflow, thereby creating value and growth for customers.

  • Handling the entire process of digital marketing solutions, from planning marketing strategies in order to acquire customers, collecting and analyzing data, to implementing and evaluating strategies based on the analysis
  • Handling the entire process of digital marketing solutions, from planning marketing strategies in order to acquire customers, collecting and analyzing data, to implementing and evaluating strategies based on the analysis
  • Providing digital manufacturing services utilizing data collected by measuring instruments to help customers automate and integrate color and visual inspections for improved productivity, and to help improve the workflow at production bases
  • Providing one-stop services with a wide range of digital printing systems to cater to diverse customer needs
Company name Konica Minolta Japan Co., Ltd.
Head office 1-1-1, Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Business lines Sales of MFPs (multi-functional peripherals), printers, printing equipment, healthcare equipment, and industrial measuring instruments, as well as related consumables, and solution services
Development, planning and marketing to strengthen and expand new core businesses
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Konica Minolta to Establish a New Domestic Company to Offer New Value to Customers by Leveraging Group-Wide Resources

Konica Minolta, Inc. today announced the appointment of Jun Haraguchi as the president of Konica Minolta Japan Co., Ltd., a new domestic company of the Konica Minolta Group. Haraguchi will take office as president on April 1, 2016.

Features of the New Company

In line with the TRANSFORM 2016 Medium Term Business Plan launched in 2014, Konica Minolta has been making progress towards transforming itself into a customer-centric company and realizing sustainable profit growth.
As part of its ongoing efforts, Konica Minolta will establish a new company to reinforce its contributions to its domestic customers’ value creation and business growth by supporting reforms to their digital workflows utilizing the expertise in digital marketing and digital manufacturing that Konica Minolta has accumulated through its own practices as a manufacturer, as well as by offering solutions tailored to specific needs of industries, such as manufacturing, healthcare, and commercial and industrial printing.

Purpose of Establishment of the New Company

The new company aims to achieve genre-top positions in the following business operations by offering value added solutions to customers to help them facilitate transformation to their digital workflows, thereby contributing to its customers’ value creation and business growth

  • Offer digital manufacturing services utilizing the data collected through the measuring instruments to assist customers in the automatization and integration of color and visual inspections for improvement of productivity, and to facilitate workflow reforms at production bases
  • Offer digital manufacturing services utilizing the data collected through the measuring instruments to assist customers in the automatization and integration of color and visual inspections for improvement of productivity, and to facilitate workflow reforms at production bases
  • Offer solutions to hospitals, clinics and nursing care facilities to promote workflow reforms in the areas of home medical care and nursing care
  • Offer a one-stop service by means of a wide range of digital printing systems to cater to diversified customer needs

Overview of the New Company

Company name Konica Minolta Japan, Inc.
Head office 1-1-1 Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Representative To be determined
Business lines Sales of MFPs (multi-functional peripherals), printers, printing equipment, healthcare equipment, and industrial measuring instruments, as well as related consumables, and solution services
Development, planning and marketing to strengthen and expand new core businesses
Capital 397 million yen
Number of employees Approx. 3,700 
Fiscal year end March 31
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Spoof email warning: Suspicious emails that seems to have been sent from our MFP by “Scan to email

Recently we have received several reports from our customers regarding suspicious email messages supposedly sent from our MFP by “Scan to email”.
Following mail Subjects and From addresses are used in the suspicious email.SubjectMessage from KMBT_{model_name}
Message from KONICA_MINOLTA
Message from MFD
Message from scannerFrom addressscanner@{customer’s domain address}
MFD@{customer’s domain address}
KONICA_MINOLTA@{customer’s domain address}And these email also contains attachment files, whose format is not supported by our MFP.Example of attachment filenameSKMBT_C28015061614410.doc
SKM_4050151222162800.docIn case you receive any email messages which you do not expect, DELETE the message and DO NOT open any attached files.
Also we recommend our customers who are using “Scan to E-mail” function of our MFP to consult with their MFP administrator and take countermeasures so suspicious emails could be easily distinguished, such as changing the default settings of email subject sent by this function.
We continuously monitor security vulnerability status of our products, and deal appropriately with them.* Scan to email: A function that transmits original data scanned on a MFP as email attachment.