Does Eastman Kodak use the same coating line to coat products other than film? Alan Edward Klein has a good point. Now that KodakAlaris has been sold with ownership reverting back to the U.S what if any of the bankruptcy conditions still apply? I assume that Kingswood would have figured all...
Eastman might be willing to sell off its film production to the well-funded VC and say good riddance. I assume that Alaris never had the money to buy it. Now that would be interesting.
Disregarding the rationale, can you answer a couple of questions for future analysis sdo we can tell how much Kodak film is sold using ALaris reporting requirements? When American corporations buy out British companies completely, how does the corporation stay British. Doesn't Alaris die? Why...
Eastman Kodak is mostly a commercial printing related business - the stuff we are interested in here is an important but moderately small segment of its overall business.
Here is a like the Kingswood website, seems like KodakAlaris is just the right side, but Eastman Kodak would be too much of a stretch.
https://www.kingswood-capital.com/investment-criteria/
Well, on Shark Tank there have been deals where the plan was not to really expand a budding business to make money, but to exploit their processes and relationships to promote a totally different product to make money. All I know is that if any of us knew how this stuff worked we'd probably be...
Not sure what Alaris has that can be sold other than their exclusive rights to sell Kodak film. They have no plants or patents as far as I know. Basically, they're a distributor.
Whatever the plan is, it is certain that they've done their homework and have a plan. These groups tend to be very shrewd and intelligent when they bet.
Keep what works and ditch everything else they don't think has a future.
If you read KodakAlaris financial reports, Film segment has been the driver behind revenue and profit growth for many years now, so it would seem that continuing with getting cheap film from Eastman Kodak and selling it...
What if they buy Kodak film production as well? Alaris USA is already right next to the Rochester NY production plant (I believe). That could make managing both manufacturing and distribution an easier joint effort, just as Eastman Kodak did it for a century. That would give them more...
First thing I thought of. However, after reading their bio, they're involved with many buyouts in different industries and seem to be an energetic company with top executives willing to risk their capital. Maybe they saw film advancing and catching on again and felt they could market it better...
Indeed, just unfortunate wording on my side. I was thinking if in that scenario, something like the chemical rights and distribution could happen. But then it would be an actor like Cinestill picking up marketing and distribution while EK manufactures anyways.
I actually found that you wrote a...
EK is already doing all the manufacturing of Still film.
What they don't have, and what KodakAlaris does have, is the marketing and distribution infrastructure, as well as the rights to that marketing and distribution.
If Alaris goes belly up (i.e. goes bankrupt), those rights would be part of...
Interesting, I also share the sentiment of uncertainty as they are Venture capital.
But then count that Harman was also purchased by Pemberstone Ventures, which is of a familiar nature.
Regarding film, IIRC Alaris hold the rights but does not manufacture (EK). Chemistry and Paper went into...
News that uk pension protection fund has sold KodakAlaris to LA based Kingswood Capital
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240801029078/en/Kodak-Alaris-Announces-Acquisition-by-Kingswood-Capital-Management
"f you were a high quantity commercial retail operation, you also might get a response..." - Even the busy camera shops that still sell film, and quite abit of it like Central Camera here in Chicago NEVER know what's going on at Fuji's end.
Sino Promise bought Kodak colour paper business and chemicals from Alaris when that business was seriously competing with Fuji. Now, you might think that Alaris and Fuji came to a "gentlemen's agreement" and then just asked Sino Promise nicely to deliberately run their new business to the ground...
Other way around. The impetus came from KodakAlaris because of the demand for still film transparency material. The added interest of the motion picture people probably meant that the extensive work required to bring it back was viable.
Speaking generally though, Fuji has never responded to...
...it was/is owned by Carestream, after they obtained it from Eastman Kodak.
I believe that there were some leasehold interests that resulted in KodakAlaris using it for producing RA4 paper, but not owning it. I'm not sure whether those leasehold interests actually ended up in Sino Promise's...
Not quite, but certainly since the bankruptcy the only revisions were to replace them with KodakAlaris badging.
But the film manufacturing people and the distribution people still did communicate about quality issues, at least until Sino Promise went under.
And Eastman Kodak were the entity...
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The 2015 KodakAlaris MSDS shows the formula changed again, with no Borax or Boric Acid. An Ilford Patent shows ID-11 as a reference developer but with the Borax...
KodakAlaris distributes to local distributors, who in turn distribute to either retailers or even more local distributors.
KodakAlaris and its customers cooperate with respect to these issues, but once the film is bought from KodakAlaris .....
...is from a few years ago, and from an absolutely reliable and fully informed source:
At the time of Ektachrome's re-introduction, it was KodakAlaris and the still film people who were most keen on bringing back Ektachrome, but the only thing that made it possible was that Motion Picture also...
You have that backwards. Eastman Kodak developed Ektachrome and announced it in Super 8, 16mm, and 35mm for still cameras. It's obvious to me that it's cine based because it's so low contrast and neutral relative to even Provia. They wanted reversal films for their small format cine cameras...
...100s of millions of dollars in cash, which resulted in Eastman Kodak coming out of bankruptcy as a far smaller entity with a greatly simplified and streamlined business. Most of its still large international workforce became the responsibility of KodakAlaris, allowing Eastman Kodak to continue.
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