New facilities features Digital Imaging Square showroom and houses the new Business Development, Regional and Corporate teams.
SINGAPORE, July 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Konica Minolta Business Solutions Asia Pte Ltd. today celebrated the opening of its regional headquarter at Mapletree Business City, barely 3 months after its announcement as a regional headquarter in Singapore. The new premise was declared open by Mr. Jun Haraguchi, Executive Director of Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc., Japan.
"Today epitomises Konica Minolta's goals to strengthen our foothold in Southeast Asia," said Mr Ryo Maruhashi, Managing Director, Konica Minolta Business Solutions Asia Pte Ltd. "The Business Development and Regional Operations teams are geared to help accelerate market penetration, and support our expansion in the Southeast Asia market."
With the set up of the regional headquarter, Konica Minolta BSA is poised for strong growth, projected to double its revenue by 2016 across the Southeast Asia region for the office and production printing solutions.
Mr. Terence Gan, Deputy Director, Electronics, Singapore Economic Development Board, added: "Konica Minolta and Singapore have a longstanding relationship and we warmly welcome the opening of its regional headquarters here. This decision will add vibrancy toSingapore's printing and imaging industry and it strengthens Singapore's role as a business hub for companies looking to grow in emerging Asia."
"The Regional team will manage, supervise and support the sales subsidiaries and distributors in Southeast Asia," said Mr. Jun Haraguchi, "Customers can expect faster turn-around response and value-added services, thus enriching their Konica Minolta experience and increasing our presence in the local markets."
Konica Minolta BSA is located at 30 Pasir Panjang Road #06-32, and the opening ceremony was attended by EDB representatives, business partners, staff and media.
About The Digital Imaging Square (DIS)
This Konica Minolta concept showroom in Southeast Asia features innovative solutions in office and production printing. It provides realistic simulation of a production printing environment with the applications of production printers and post-processors. Customers will be able to witness the life cycle of the print production from submission, pre-press, printing to finishing in the Digital Imaging Square. The DIS has dedicated areas that demonstrate Konica Minolta's capabilities in the area of colour management system, its complete solutions for digital production printing and post processors, finishing machines and solutions such as variable data services, "Web to Print" and related software.
About Konica Minolta
Konica Minolta Business Solutions is a leading global company in print and imaging industry that provides innovative business office and production printing solutions and managed print services to reduce document output cost, improve productivity and optimise office environment, backed by impeccable service and support team.
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