Ricoh
The company Ricoh (Japanese株式会社 リコー, Kabushiki - gaisha Riko ), listed on the Nikkei 225, one of a series of major international manufacturer of digital office systems (eg, multifunctional devices, printers ), production printing systems as well as digital and film cameras. In fiscal year 2011/12 Ricoh generated with 109 241 employees generated sales of 1903.4 billion yen. The company's headquarters is in Tokyo.
History
The company was founded in 1936 in Japan as Kankoshi Riken Co., Ltd.. founded. It drove at the time of light-sensitive paper. 1938 started to produce cameras, and the twin-lens Ricohflex II was one of the most sought after 6x6cm cameras of the early 1950s. In 1955 the entrance to the office equipment industry: Ricoh introduced the first Diazokopiermaschine ago. 1973 succeeded Ricoh with the office fax RIFAX 600S with the transmission of a fax message between New York and Tokyo in less than a minute to set up a speed record. Around 1975 Ricoh managed to produce the best-selling copy machine ( Ricopy DT1200 ). In 1982 the company introduced the first digital office system, in 1989 the first digital ISDN fax machine in the world ( RIFAX 7000D ) was sold.
The Ricoh Company Ltd.. founded in 1978 in Frankfurt am Main, the German subsidiary of Ricoh Germany GmbH. In 2007, Infotec, was taken over by the American Danka Group European organization. In February 2011 it was announced a global strategic cooperation with Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG, which will allow customers an optimal combination of digital and offset technology. In October 2011, the photo division of the brand Pentax, formerly part of the Hoya Group was acquired.
Products
- Digital office solutions:
1981 Ricoh began marketing of plain paper copiers in North America and Europe. As a result, Ricoh used the world's increasing digitization and networking in offices throughout the world and made his mark in just two decades as a leading provider of digital office solutions. With over 108,500 employees and offices in more than 150 countries, the Ricoh Group is one of the most comprehensive sales and service networks in the industry has.
- Main products:
Multifunction systems, production print systems, printers (laser / gel), fax systems, digital quick printers ( Digital Duplicators ) and consumables / spare parts.
- Software Solutions:
Printing and document management (eg, archiving), Network Monitoring, printing solutions and connectivity.
- Digital Photography:
In addition to digital compact cameras for the amateur, Ricoh offers the model series GR and GXR digital cameras featuring amenities. This camera enjoy due to their relatively high processing quality at a small size, bright optics and image sensors in APS-C format (for " GXR A" ) has a good reputation among professional users. Additionally, Ricoh offers the Model "G" a waterproof, shock resistant and chemical-resistant compact digital camera. Forerunner of the GR Digital series was the analog model Ricoh GR with permanently installed, relatively high-speed wide -angle lenses. These cameras offered the high picture quality of SLR cameras with much less size and weight. They wore so the reputation of the brand name Ricoh at even with professionals.
With the acquisition of Pentax in 2011, the portfolio of digital photography has been greatly expanded and it also includes re- SLR, a larger range of interchangeable lenses as well as, for example, mirrorless system cameras (see Pentax K- 01) on offer. All activities of the photo division were in the re-foundation " Pentax Ricoh Imaging Co., Ltd.. " merged.
Awards
The independent Oekom Research AG recorded Ricoh repeated as an environmentally- friendly company in the information technology. The manufacturer received from the Federal Institute for Materials Testing the first company worldwide to permit its products in its own laboratories, according to the environmental standard to test Blue Angel.
Ricoh Germany GmbH
The Ricoh Germany GmbH was founded in 1978 in Frankfurt am Main and is a subsidiary of Ricoh Europe Holdings BV In 2006, the Ricoh Digital Solutions GmbH and Ricoh Germany merged GmbH. In 2007, the NRG Germany GmbH (Hannover) and Ricoh Germany GmbH (Frankfurt) merged. Since November 2007, is the headquarters of Ricoh Germany GmbH in Hannover (position ) 52.421039.73245. During drupa 2008, Ricoh Germany and the former managing director Uwe -Jens Nonnsen parted. New CEO of Ricoh Germany was James Howard Potter. Since the beginning of October 2009 Uwe Jungk is the Managing Director of Ricoh Germany.
In 2009, Infotec GmbH Germany and parts of Infotec International BV in the Ricoh Germany GmbH has been integrated. 2010 was the integration of IKON Office Solutions GmbH Germany. In June 2012, Ricoh has the medium-sized system house ADA - The System GmbH acquired, after this had run into financial difficulties. Ricoh leads the operational part of the ADA further and integrated it into its IT service.
Ricoh Switzerland AG
The company was created on 1 October 2008 from the three existing subsidiaries Ricoh Lanier, Celltec and Infotec. CEO Stefan Ammann. In Switzerland, Ricoh employs approximately 500 employees and is represented in Switzerland in addition to its head office in Zurich - Wallisellenstrasse with 17 branches locally. Ricoh Switzerland sells products and services for the digital office communication and production printing and IT services. In addition to simple hardware manufactured by the Japanese parent company include ( MFPs, printers, production printers, fax systems ) software solutions and industry-related services and consulting services. These services relate to the entire infrastructure management ( managed services, outsourcing) and cover the complete lifecycle of the information carrier document in companies and organizations. The primary objective here is to implement a process improvement, productivity improvement and cost reduction in the field of office communication and enterprise-wide printing and document processing.