Nikon reports profit in first quarter

Reuters reports on Nikon’s first quarter financial results (April-June, 2010):

” Nikon Corp. reported a more than 15-fold rise in quarterly profit on Thursday on healthy camera sales and improved demand for steppers and scanners used to make chips and liquid crystal displays.”

“The company raised its annual single-lens reflex camera sales forecast to 4.25 million units from 4.2 million units and its sales forecast for compact digital cameras to 13.5 million units from 12.5 million.”

Read also the related commentary from Bloomberg.

All financial updates from August 5th, 2010 can be found on Nikon’s website. Here is the Imaging Division detailed info: