“Fujifilm would hold a majority stake in the venture.“
- Bye Bye KM
https://www.printweek.com/content/news/fujifilm-and-konica-minolta-announce-plans-for-jv
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This joint venture is now on hold... KM's forecast for profit is "we'll do the same as last year"... what does this mean? when are the 2,400 going to be cut, and from where?
I left in 2018 and never looked back. The St. Louis Branch sold it's soul to a major hospital network managing their printers via the money-losing MPS structure. It barely lasted 3 years. The Tech Manager (basically a sales manager for most of his time there) relented control to a former tech who switched sides to become the account manager for the MPS gig. Awesome. At that point the field techs had two managers (neither of which they could stand). I'd had enough and moved on. The field tech population fell to as few as 5 techs (during most of my time there they had 14 or more) but the Tech Manager somehow survived. The former-tech-MPS-account-Manager? His wife left him soon after it became obvious to her that his job meant more to him than she and the kids. He's busting his a-s working as a low-level med-tech field rep, at a greatly reduced salary (shrunk even more by child-support payments). Karma catches up with some of them!
KM is putting on a good show! So much excitement and positive buzz about how great 2024 is going to be... questions: when and where does the hammer fall on the 2,400? how will KM survive 2024 after 4 years of losses?