In addition to this leadership change, the Paper and Output Systems, Photo Services and Service and Support units will move from FPG to the Retail Printing business unit within the company’s Consumer Digital Group, effective January 1, 2007. This move will concentrate FPG’s portfolio exclusively on film-related businesses, as well as the digital cinema and services businesses within EI. The group will be composed of three core businesses; Entertainment Imaging, which serves the motion picture industry; Film Capture, which sells consumer and professional films and one-time-use cameras; and Aerial and Industrial Markets, which sells specialty films. In line with this, the group will be renamed the Film Products Group effective January 1, 2007.
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Leading brands at Photopia Hamburg
According to to the organizer, Hamburg Messe + Congress (HMC), major imaging brands will be represented at Photopia Hamburg, which will take place in the Hanseatic city from September 23 to 26 as a festival for the entire digital imaging industry. These include camera and lens manufacturers such as Canon, Sony, Nikon, Leica and Panasonic as well as Sigma and Tamron, but also the monitor manufacturers BenQ and Eizo, print service providers such as WhiteWall and the paper manufacturers Ilford and Hahnemühle. Several retailing companies and distributors, including Calumet, Foto Erhardt, IPS, HapaTeam and Probis will also exhibit.
