Kodak films direct from Eastman Kodak (was: Kodacolor 100. New)

[Alan Edward Klein]

Kodak Alaris was responsible for all the different international importation requirements, all the different packaging requirements and regulations in the various target marketplaces, all the specialized shipping requirements.
They organized information and orders from the various segment market distributors - those who serviced the drug store and grocery store industries (display card mounted film), those who serviced the camera store environment, those who serviced the technical and commercial distribution systems, dealt with the various international requirements of all those distributors, organized orders from all those disparate distributors, coordinated the needs represented by those orders with the production schedules of EK and then presented one or more confirmed orders to EK.
E K had/has no infrastructure capability to deal with an order from a distributor in, e.g. Portugal, who services a few retail outlets in Spai and Portugal, and needs product labelled in Spanish and Portuguese.

How did Alaris get the film from Eastman? Did Eastman ship to Alaris who reshipped to the secondaries? If so, where was Alaris? If not, how did the film get to those secondary distributors? I have no info on this. Do you?

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

Maybe I missed something but isn't the whole idea that EK distributes directly in North America only, while Alaris handles ROW? I remember a few of us speculating earlier that it was a move by the owners of both, to get around the new Trump tariffs.

It could be that simple. But that means that Eastman ships film to Alaris outside the USA, who then reships back into the USA and gets tariffs attached. Is that how film for USA sale gets shipped?

 

[mshchem]

How did Alaris get the film from Eastman? Did Eastman ship to Alaris who reshipped to the secondaries? If so, where was Alaris? If not, how did the film get to those secondary distributors? I have no info on this. Do you?

I have no idea how this works. I do know that I can get a return label from a seller, slap it on a box and have UPS, FedEx etc get it anywhere in the world. If Alaris was/is handling billing, import export etc all Kodak would need to do is slap a label on the box.

Again unless someone here works in public relations for these companies all we have thus far is art work. New cartons.

 

[MattKing]

What I do know about international shipping is that during the height of the COVID pandemic, it was Kodak Alaris that was struggling with the disruptions to the shipping and export and import systems, not their customer distributors or their manufacturer Eastman Kodak.
Of course, all those disruptions caused all sorts of problems for everybody.