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  1. Alan Edward Klein

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    Kodak no longer selling E100D directly to customers?

    It's business, not games. Alaris has exclusive rights from Eastman to sell their 35mm photo film. When Eastman sells cine film converted to 35mm photo film by third parties, it violates their agreement with Alaris, reducing Alaris' sales and profits. If your employer gave 10% of your salary to...
  2. koraks

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    Kodak no longer selling E100D directly to customers?

    What's the difference between 'unofficial' respoolers and Cinestill, apart from the likely much larger volume of the latter compared to the combined former? It's still a massive channel conflict that reduces financial returns on the production operation.

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    Kodak no longer selling E100D directly to customers?

    My opinion is that it's not in Eastman Kodak's or Kodak Alaris' best interest to have unofficial (???) spoolers selling repackaged movie film. Cinestill has established itself as a major player, they're not at risk. On the pension, sounds like EK made some $$$ playing in the stock market and...
  4. MattKing

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    Kodak no longer selling E100D directly to customers?

    Unless there are specific exceptions in the agreement, Kodak Alaris owns the rights to market and distribute Kodak branded still film. They paid hundreds of millions of dollars for that, and assumed liabilities worth probably that much as well.
  5. Cholentpot

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    Kodak no longer selling E100D directly to customers?

    Isn't the main subject of the thread Kodak Alaris at its core? We can't get bulk film anymore because of Kodak Alaris playing games.
  6. MattKing

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    Kodak no longer selling E100D directly to customers?

    No real connection. And we have discussed the reasons for the Eastman Kodak bankruptcy extensively in past threads, as well as how the arrangement with Kodak Alaris saved the film manufacturing itself. Can we get back to the subject of the thread itself please.
  7. Cholentpot

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    Kodak no longer selling E100D directly to customers?

    I thought it might have to do something with the way the Alaris situation. Any way Kodak can work their way around that deal eventually? I want Kodak to make decisions on what and how to sell to customers again. They did pretty good for 120 years or so.
  8. cmacd123

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    Kodak no longer selling E100D directly to customers?

    that would be the EASTMAN KODAK pension plan. Alaris was set up in the Hope of funding the KODAK LIMITED Pension Plan. two different plans in two different continents.
  9. Cholentpot

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    Kodak no longer selling E100D directly to customers?

    No idea what the article is saying other than things are moving around at Kodak.
  10. Alan Edward Klein

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    Kodak no longer selling E100D directly to customers?

    Why does this feel like the retirement situation once at Alaris?
  11. MattKing

    Eastman Kodak temporarily paused all film production - to upgrade manufacturing plant (Nov 2024)

    ...And they manufacture and market the Estar base. Plus they manufacture some of the photo-chemistry for motion picture film processing. Kodak Alaris has the exclusive world-wide marketing and distribution rights for all Kodak branded still films. They don't manufacture any products. Other...

  12. Eastman Kodak temporarily paused all film production - to upgrade manufacturing plant (Nov 2024)

    Who is the company that makes the film? Isn't it Kodak Alaris? Why are we talking about Eastman Kodak?
  13. MattKing

    Eastman Kodak temporarily paused all film production - to upgrade manufacturing plant (Nov 2024)

    The current agreement between Kodak Alaris and Eastman Kodak permits Kodak to make the special runs of film that Cinestill uses - which itself is different from the film that is used by the movie industry. It lacks remjet from the start.
  14. Alan Edward Klein

    Eastman Kodak temporarily paused all film production - to upgrade manufacturing plant (Nov 2024)

    I imagine they'll have to stop respooling. That seems to put them in competition with Alaris, which has a contract with Kodak to be the exclusive photo film distributor of Kodak film. Contact Cinestill. https://cinestillfilm.com/

  15. Eastman Kodak temporarily paused all film production - to upgrade manufacturing plant (Nov 2024)

    ...what we once called Kodak is now a convoluted arrangement of different naming rights and distribution channels for various products(i.e. Kodak Alaris, etc) but isn't Cinestill now in charge of the distribution of Kodak-branded chemistry at least in the US? If that's the case, it would...
  16. Alan Edward Klein

    Eastman Kodak temporarily paused all film production - to upgrade manufacturing plant (Nov 2024)

    He used the word "modernizing". Companies don't modernize a factory if they don't think there's a future in film. Now whether the modernization is just for existing production, or if it includes expansion for more volume and other emulsions, is the open question. Expansion would be better...
  17. Todd Barlow

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    Who is the master distributor for Kodak B&W Chemistry in Canada? (Like Amplis is for Ilford)

    Thanks Matt, if I assume the stores that sell film and Black and White Chemistry limits the number of retail outlets, any distributor names you might know of that would supply those types of outlets? ie Who supplies Henry's (nationwide), Downtown Camera (Toronto), the Camera Store (Calgary)...
  18. MattKing

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    Who is the master distributor for Kodak B&W Chemistry in Canada? (Like Amplis is for Ilford)

    There isn't one - that is not the distribution model used. Kodak Alaris sells to more local distributors, who tend to specialize in retail markets, rather than products. So "amateur" film may be purchased by your retail source from a distributor who specializes in selling to drugstores, or from...
  19. Alan Edward Klein

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    Kodak no longer selling E100D directly to customers?

    The bankruptcy agreement between Eastman and Alaris allows Eastman to distribute movie film only. It's only to be sold to movie companies not for the purpose of cutting them up to be used as still photos. All Kodak still films like Ektachrome or Tmax are to be distributed by Alaris only. It...
  20. Alan Edward Klein

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    Kodak no longer selling E100D directly to customers?

    Sounds like the new owners of Alaris sent Eastman a lawyers letter.
  21. koraks

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    Kodak no longer selling E100D directly to customers?

    There's quite likely a political/policy dimension to this story that we generally ignore/overlook. Sino Promise is/was based in Hong Kong. I think you have to take into account administrative and political changes in Hong Kong to make sense of the Sino Promise situation. Consider also that...
  22. Alan Edward Klein

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    Kodak no longer selling E100D directly to customers?

    The old sleepy English management appears to have been risk averse and not very creative probably because their shareholders, the British pensioners, were only interested in getting their monthly retirement checks. Now it;s owned by real business investors with across the board experience who...
  23. cmacd123

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    Kodak no longer selling E100D directly to customers?

    When Alaris was set it is was OWNED by the Kodak Limited pension fund, but RUN by the folks who had been doing the same job for Eastman Kodak and it's related companies Before the Bankruptcy. one assumes the fund itself was set up with Professional Paid management.
  24. Alan Edward Klein

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    Kodak no longer selling E100D directly to customers?

    It's been recently purchased so I expect the new owners to upgrade marketing. The old owners were only interested in their pension checks.

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    Kodak no longer selling E100D directly to customers?

    +1. Your last point: improved service. Yepp, in that regard Kodak Alaris is totally underperforming, to say it diplomatically: For example Harman technology, with much much less workforce and employees than Alaris, is offering - two excellent websites with lots of information which are often...

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    Kodak no longer selling E100D directly to customers?

    The availability problem was because of Covid, and because of too low 135 format confectioning capacities at Kodak. Both problems have been solved for quite a while. Has KA reacted with price decreases? No. And I prefer to not being ripped off. I have to pay for Gold 200 more than 100% more...
  27. brbo

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    Kodak no longer selling E100D directly to customers?

    And before, when the price was not a problem, problem was the availability. It’s economy 101. Kodak Alaris is maximising their profits with the supply they can get. I still prefer expensive film to no film available. It’s not really KA or EK fault that the only other major supplier of colour...

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    Kodak no longer selling E100D directly to customers?

    ...most and best make-up possible", to cover all blemishes. Sino Promise purchased the photo chemical group and photo paper group from Kodak Alaris. Sino had been the biggest Alaris distributor in Asia for many years. So they should have known the business very well. But what happened after...
  29. Alan Edward Klein

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    Kodak no longer selling E100D directly to customers?

    So why did they invest $100-200 million if they have little prospects or avenues to increase the value of the company? If high prices for Kodak film is reducing sales as FLic Flam says, how will Alaris raise prices further and not expect to reduce market share even more? All your arguments are...

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    Kodak no longer selling E100D directly to customers?

    ...so many other companies which failed and got into bankrupcy: You will find these MBA managers in about all these cases. And the current Kodak Alaris managers have certainly also a similar or same educational background. We don't have a problem with availability of Kodak film. The problem is...
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