Quality counts

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Canon is one of a number of companies that have managed to perform well despite Japan's economic difficulties. It now derives 70% of sales and 30% of production from outside Japan, and is strongly committed to research and development. According to preliminary figures, profits rose by 40% in 1997 from 1996 to around Y83 billion, with net sales rising by 10% to Y1.6 trillion. However, the company will have to develop more extremely successful products if it is to continue growing at its current rate. Observers believe that there are no such products currently under development.

Photographic equipment and supplies, Photographic and Photocopying Equipment Manufacturing, Computer peripheral equipment, not elsewhere classified, Other Computer Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing, Photographic Equip & Supplies, Computer Input-Output Eqp NEC, Management, Computer peripherals industry, Photographic industry, Company Profile, Printers (Equipment), Canon Inc.

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Pioneer's progress: challenges abound for Hong Kong video-on-demand firm

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Hong Kong-based Interactive Multimedia Services (IMS) plans to launch the world's first video-on-demand service in October 1997. The company's director William Lo aims for 1.6 million subscribers by 2000. The Hongkong Telecom subsidiary, which will have invested HK$4 billion in the project by the end of the century, expects to gain a government licence by the end of 1997, although it faces competition from Britain's Elmsdale Media, local TV firm Future TV and Hong Kong's Star Entertainment.

Cable and other pay TV services, Services, Television broadcasting industry, Video-on-demand, Hong Kong, Pay-per-view television, Interactive Multimedia Services

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