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Anon Ymous said:

To be honest, I only remember him saying that they won't rebrand Ilford films, I don't remember anything about Kentmere. You can also read some interesting details about another reincarnation here: https://www.fotoimpex.de/shopen/films/fotoimpex-chm-400-13536.html

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I do believe he was saying that the Kentmere was a "different" film as they had established a policy of not selling any of their films under another brand, so that they had come up with a new film for that market. They are quite happy to do conversion and packaging, and presumably would also coat a custom batch, but would draw the line at private labeling an existing Ilford formula. (so no more "Arista English Professional)

cmacd123 said:

I do believe he was saying that the Kentmere was a "different" film as they had established a policy of not selling any of their films under another brand, so that they had come up with a new film for that market. They are quite happy to do conversion and packaging, and presumably would also coat a custom batch, but would draw the line at private labeling an existing Ilford formula. (so no more "Arista English Professional)

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I think you are saying that Kentmere films fall into that category of film that would allow Harman to re-brand that film by another name without this compromising its no re-badging policy. Have I got this correctly?

If I have got this correctly, can you point out the source of Simon G's statement. The original source may be key here. Thanks

pentaxuser

pentaxuser said:

I think you are saying that Kentmere films fall into that category of film that would allow Harman to re-brand that film by another name without this compromising its no re-badging policy. Have I got this correctly?

If I have got this correctly, can you point out the source of Simon G's statement. The original source may be key here. Thanks

pentaxuser

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The point may be that the formulation underlying Kentmere 400 may not be an original Ilford/Harman formulation to begin with (see link provided by Anon Ymous), so may not fall under whatever Simon said.

mnemosyne said:

The point may be that the formulation underlying Kentmere 400 may not be an original Ilford/Harman formulation to begin with (see link provided by Anon Ymous), so may not fall under whatever Simon said.

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Where did you got that?
Sorry to say that, but you got it wrong.
Kentmere 100 and 400 were introduced in 2009 first in the US market as a budget alternative to the more expensive Ilford films.
They are new emulsions from Ilford/Harman and are marketed as Kentmere and not Ilford just from a strategic and marketing point of vue.

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