Kodak No. 1 with Installed Base of Dry Lab Printing Systems in Europe

Eastman Kodak Company said that through customer acceptance of its Adaptive Picture Exchange (APEX), it now holds the number one position for installed dry labs in Europe.

Kodak said that its leadership position, in the segment representing the fastest-growing photo market opportunity, is based on recent market data from UK-based Futuresource Consulting. Futuresource estimates that the dry lab category in Europe is growing by more than 100 percent annually.

Building on Kodak's installed base of more than 100,000 kiosk order stations worldwide, the company's worldwide number one position in instant printing, and now a number one European market share position in dry labs, Kodak Systems continue to deliver on the promise of helping consumers tell their stories in minutes, bringing smiles to consumers and profit potential to retailers around the globe, the Company noted in a release.

"Kodak is strongly committed to delivering the best possible customer experience and productivity per square foot in the photo retailing 1industry, and we're very proud of our market-leading position in this rapidly-growing segment," said Nicki Zongrone, General Manager of Kodak's Retail Systems Solutions business and Vice President of Eastman Kodak Company. "The strong demand for our solutions indicates we're delivering on both the need for consumers to easily and quickly create a wide variety of high quality photo prints and photo memory items, as well as the need for retail and professional photo processing customers to generate growth and profitability from a reliable, proven and sustainable technology platform."

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