Langenhagen, Germany, 20 May 2019

“In Europe, Konica Minolta already has 31.700 IT customers today – and we are winning new ones every day,” says Yoann Fortini, ITS GTM Manager, Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe. He adds: “This shows that we are able to meet the demands of large and small companies throughout our different national markets with the solutions we provide, including our one-stop IT solution Workplace Hub that we are increasingly selling to and installing for our customers.”

This customer-centric approach is Konica Minolta’s recipe for success across all of its business fields and laid the basis for its strong position in its conventional office printing market. “In fact, our existing customer base in office printing trusting in our solutions and services is a key factor for our success in IT as well,” explains Fortini. “11 percent of these customers are now relying on Konica Minolta also as a provider for IT services,” he states. These so called ‘hybrid customers’ are an important pillar of Konica Minolta’s growth. They are a driving force behind the fact that entire revenue of IT services was 534 million Euros in the financial year 2018, including the single IT services revenue as well as the IT services and MFP and printer revenue from hybrid customers. This is an increase of 37 percent compared to 2017’s financial year. To further strenghten its position as a full-flegded IT service provider, Konica Minolta has continued its investments in strategic mergers and acquisitions in the past financial year, particularly in Europe. Highlights were the acquisition of the Belgium based IT company Aurelium, the Spanish IT services provider Grupo Meridian as well as seven subsidiaries of SEQUOÏA in France, a leading dealer in Konica Minolta’s network with a particularly strong presence in Grand-Est and Reunion.

 About Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe

Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH, based in Langenhagen, Germany, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Konica Minolta Inc., Tokyo, Japan. Konica Minolta enables its clients to champion the digital era: with its unique imaging expertise and data processing capabilities, Konica Minolta creates relevant solutions for its customers and solves issues faced by society. As a provider of comprehensive IT services, Konica Minolta delivers consultancy and services to optimise business processes with workflow automation. The company further offers its customers solutions and managed services in the field of IT infrastructure and IT security as well as cloud environments. With regard to its office printing solutions, ‘IDC MarketScape: Western Europe Smart Multifunctional Peripheral 2018 Vendor Assessment’ stated that Konica Minolta is ‘recognised globally as a leading smart MFP provider of note’. As a strong partner for the professional printing market, Konica Minolta offers business consulting, state-of-the-art technology and software and has established itself as the production printing market leader for more than a decade in Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa (InfoSource). In the healthcare sector, Konica Minolta drives digitalisation of clinical workflows and offers a broad range of next-level diagnostic solutions. Its Business Innovation Centre in London and four R & D laboratories in Europe enable Konica Minolta to bring innovation forward by collaborating with its customers as well as academic, industrial and entrepreneurial partners. For its solutions that combine ‘smart service with smart technology’, Konica Minolta was awarded the prestigious ‘Buyers Lab PaceSetter Award for Outstanding Serviceability 2018/2019’ from Keypoint Intelligence. Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe is represented by subsidiaries and distributors in more than 80 countries in Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa. With almost 10,300 employees (as of April 2019), Konica Minolta Europe earned net sales of over EUR 2.39 billion in financial year 2018/19.

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Contact
Melanie Olbrich
Konica Minolta
Business Solutions Europe GmbH
Phone: +49 (0)511 7404-5337
melanie.olbrich@konicaminolta.eu

[1] Market Insight: Gartner Global Top 100 IT Vendors in 2017, Gartner, 2018, https://www.gartner.com/doc/3888571/market-insight-gartner-global-top

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