Eastman Kodak Company, a publicly owned entity headquartered in the United States, was founded in 1892. The company employs approximately 7,250 individuals and reported $1.1B in revenue as of 2025. Its operations are focused on commercial print and advanced materials & chemicals manufacturing.
On September 17, 2026, Eastman Kodak overtook Canon as Japan's top camera brand by sales volume in fiscal 2025, concluding Canon's 20-plus-year market lead by successfully appealing to young users. This recent market resurgence follows broader indications of an operational inflection point for the company, which surfaced on September 12, 2026. These "green shoots" include significant balance sheet repair, stabilization in its print business, and ventures into new end markets like EV batteries and molecular reagents for pharmaceuticals. The company's current trajectory comes against a backdrop of its well-documented past struggles with digital innovation. Earlier, on September 16, 2026, discussions highlighted that Kodak's historical failure was not due to a lack of foresight regarding digital photography—an innovation one of its own engineers helped create—but rather an inability to transition from a business model threatened by a new future. This situation, often taught in business schools as an example of corporate overthinking, traces back to December 1975, when Kodak engineer Steven Sasson completed a prototype for a filmless camera, a 3.6-kilogram device that created 100 by 100-pixel black-and-white images on cassette tape, which management reportedly dismissed.
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