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Konica Minolta, Inc. specializes in the design, manufacturing and marketing of printing, photography, medical imaging and measuring equipments. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- office equipments (51.1%);
- professional printing equipment (21.4%): laser printer, consumables, multifunctional peripherals, etc.;
- electronic and optical equipments (15.3%): plastic and molded glass lenses, display components, screen, memory units, etc.;
- medical equipments (12.1%): primarily imagery and graphic equipments and measuring equipments;
- other (0.2%).
Net sales break down geographically as follows: Japan (19.5%), China (10.5%), Asia (9.4%), Europe (28.6%), the United States (25.3%) and other (6.7%).