Re Agreement with Kodak

21 Dec 2005 15:42

Danka Business Systems PLC21 December 2005 For immediate release 21 December 2005 DANKA BUSINESS SYSTEMS PLC ("Danka") Kodak and Danka Announce Expanded Sales Alliance for Digital Presses Agreement expands successful sales and service relationship for Kodak's production printing systems; broadens market penetration in corporate and government markets Eastman Kodak Company and Danka Holdings B.V., the European subsidiary of DankaBusiness Systems PLC, today announced an expansion of their long standing salesalliance aimed at increasing sales and market penetration for Kodak's digitalproduction presses. The expanded agreement takes effect in January 2006. Danka and Kodak have had a highly successful sales and service alliance withKodak's line of DIGIMASTER black-and-white production printing systems. Thisexpanded alliance will enable Danka to increase its sales of DIGIMASTERproduction printers in corporate, print for pay and government markets; Kodakwill enjoy growth of NEXPRESS production colour press systems sales in thesemarkets through Danka's support. The agreement closely aligns the Kodak andDanka sales organisations to leverage the capabilities of each in their coremarkets. "Danka's skilled and effective sales and service organisations are extendingtheir long track record of success with our DIGIMASTER production printingsystems, while Kodak is seeing increased direct sales success in its corecommercial printing markets," said Venkat Purushotham, Managing Director,Digital Printing, Kodak's Graphic Communications Group (GCG). "We look forwardto supporting the growth of Danka's sales into its key markets and enlisting itssupport of the sales success of our colour products." "This expanded strategic supplier relationship with Kodak builds upon Danka'smanaged print services strategy by capturing a larger share of the productionenvironment for colour and black-and-white printing in targeted markets," saidTodd Mavis, President and CEO, Danka. "This strategy will be driven by Danka'shighly regarded organisation of Systems Engineers and Production Print SalesSpecialists worldwide." - ends - For further information please contact: Danka Business Systems PLCCheley Howes 001 727 622 2760cheley_howes@danka.com Weber Shandwick Square MileHelen Thomas 020 7067 0700 KodakBeth Hogan Scott 001 203 845 7115hoganscotte@kpgraphics.com Fleishman-HilliardKen Kadet 001 612 573 3108kadetk@fleishman.com About Danka Danka delivers value to clients worldwide by using its expert technical andprofessional services to implement effective document information solutions. Asone of the largest independent providers of enterprise imaging systems andservices, the company enables choice, convenience, and continuity. Danka'svision is to empower customers to benefit fully from the convergence of imageand document technologies in a connected environment. This approach willstrengthen the company's client relationships and expand its strategic value.For more information, visit Danka at www.danka.com. About Eastman Kodak Company Kodak is the leader in helping people take, share, print, and view images - formemories, for information, for business, and for entertainment. With sales of$13.5 billion in 2004, the company is committed to a digitally oriented growthstrategy focused on four businesses: Digital & Film Imaging Systems - providingconsumers, professionals, and cinematographers with digital and traditionalproducts and services; Health - supplying the medical and dental professionswith traditional and digital imaging and information systems, IT solutions, andservices; Graphic Communications - providing customers with a range of solutionsfor prepress, traditional and digital printing, document scanning, andmulti-vendor IT services; and Display & Components - supplying originalequipment manufacturers with imaging sensors as well as intellectual propertyand materials for the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) and LCD displayindustries. More information about Kodak (NYSE: EK) is available atwww.kodak.com. For more information go to www.graphics.kodak.com. (Kodak, Digimaster and NexPress are trademarks of Kodak. Danka is a registeredtrademark of Danka Business Systems PLC.) This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange