Nikon published their Q&A for the Q1 financial results. For the Imaging Business, Nikon already sees “signs of recovery” in North America, Asia and China. The company’s strategy for the next few months will be cost cutting, generating sales by introducing new products (D750, SB-500) and concentrating on promotional activities:
Nikon announced their financial results for the first quarter of the year ending in March, 2015: both sales and income fell significantly due to “sluggish markets in Europe and Americas“. As a result, yearly sales and income forecasts were reduced. Here are the details:
Nikon released their financial results for the year ending March 2014: Nikon (7731) Corp. posted its lowest close in three years after the camera maker’s net income for the last fiscal year and profit outlook missed estimates. Nikon sank 4 percent to 1,567 yen, its lowest close since March 2011. The company announced net income […]
Nikon released their financial results for the third quarter of the year ending March 2014. They also updated their estimations or the entire year:
Just saw this report on Reuters: “Nikon is down 23.6 percent year-to-date and is the worst underperformer in the Nikkei this year, while the benchmark has rallied nearly 49 percent.” Nikon had to cut their financial forecasts multiple times in the past few months.
Extremely low DSLR inventory, shift to new products that will have higher profit margins (that probably explains the Df price), cost cutting, achieve profitability by reducing the number of models – this is how Nikon describes the current situation and their plans for the rest of the current financial year ending March 31, 2014:
Today Nikon published their financial results for the second quarter of the year ending March 2014 and they cut again their sales forecast for high-end cameras: “As the camera market shrunk due to sluggish business condition, the 1st half sales volume decreased in all product groups year on year. Thus, sales and income reduced ¥28.5 […]
