From the beginning to the future, Konica Minolta National Dealer Conference 2024 gathers the power of "creativity" to build a decisive way

Recently, the 2024 National Distributor Conference of Konica Minolta Office System (China) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Konica Minolta China"), a global value-added digital integration service provider, was held in Changsha, Hunan. Konica Minolta Co., Ltd. President and Chief Executive Officer Takuki Ichon (hereinafter referred to as "Takuki Ichon President"), Konica Minolta Co., Ltd. Digital Workspace Business Headquarters Sales Department General Director Yoshida Koji (hereinafter referred to as "Yoshida Koji General Director") The senior management of Konica Minolta China, more than 300 Konica Minolta and DEVELOP dealers from all over the country, and the well-known OA/IT/digital printing/commercial and financial media in the industry gathered together to seek the decisive way in the age of digital intelligence.

The theme of this conference is "From scratch reflects the future", which is intended to convey that Konica Minolta, after celebrating its 150th anniversary of glory, will firmly step forward "from scratch", work together with dealer partners to forge ahead, constantly explore new business boundaries, and draw a better business picture with the power of "creativity" with the emerging creativity and inspiration.

2024 Konica Minolta National Dealer Conference Site

Voice and expectation from the headquarters

At the beginning of the conference, President Lucky Li Chong delivered his message. Over the years, Konica Minolta has always maintained its leading position in the overall market share of A3 digital composite machines, A3 color digital composite machines and production digital printing market segments in China, which is inseparable from the full trust and long-term support of Chinese dealers, partners and users. On behalf of Konica Minolta Group, President of Lucky Richong expressed his sincere thanks to Chinese partners and users.

President Li Chong of Taixing briefly introduced the three core points of the Group's medium-term business plan (FY23-FY25): improving business profitability, strengthening the foundation of sales revenue and strengthening the business management system. He stressed that fiscal year 2024 is a crucial year for the medium-term development of the Group. Konica Minolta will gather the strength of the Group, accelerate the realization of the strategy of "business selection and concentration", focus on core business, improve the productivity of the Group, and build a more resilient and stable organizational system. As one of the two major global markets for Konica Minolta Group to accelerate the transformation of colorization, China is full of confidence in the future development of the Chinese market. Konica Minolta Group will continue to strengthen its strategic support for the Chinese market, so as to better promote the development of color/medium high speed digital compound machines, production digital printing systems and diversified sales business in China.

President and CEO of Konica Minolta Co., Ltd. Takashi Richong delivers a message from the president

Afterwards, the General Minister of Yoshida Koji introduced in detail the core strategy of the Group in the Chinese market. He said that the Group would continue to expand its business office business in China, especially the market promotion of A3 color digital composite machines, to better meet the needs of Chinese users. Although China's economic growth rate has slowed down, looking at the development trend of global business colorization, compared with the proportion of business colorization in European and American markets, China still has huge growth potential. The Group plans to launch a new bizhub i series color digital multifunction peripheral product in the Chinese market in the second half of this year. The new product will bring users a more comfortable, intelligent and reassuring document processing experience and help them inspire more business inspiration with its simplicity, ease of operation, intelligence, stability, security and many other advantages.

In addition, General Minister Yoshida Koji also introduced the key environmental protection measures of Konica Minolta Group: with the "environmental vision 2050" as the goal, Konica Minolta plans to achieve the goal of "zero carbon" emissions in the whole life cycle of products by 2050; At the same time, by actively developing various environmental protection technologies and making use of renewable materials and biological materials as much as possible in product manufacturing, Konica Minolta will reduce the utilization rate of earth resources to nearly zero.

Konica Minolta Co., Ltd., Head of Sales Department of Digital Workspace Business Headquarters, Hiroshi Yoshida, delivered a speech on the spot

The way to create and win

The chairman and general manager of Konica Minolta China, Hiroshi Nakata, expressed sincere thanks to the dealer partners for their unremitting efforts and put forward three suggestions for the development of SMEs: it is necessary to accelerate the realization of "dual operation", that is, to deepen the existing business and actively develop new business; It is necessary to focus on making users become irreplaceable service providers from "satisfaction" to "pleasure"; It is necessary to strengthen the cultivation of customer acquisition and potential customers. The chairman of Zhongtian Yusi also said: "In 2023, Konica Minolta has made remarkable achievements in the field of digital marketing. In 2024, we will link online and offline, enrich the cultivation content, improve the distribution efficiency, create a private domain ecosystem, and effectively use AI and RPA technologies to enable ourselves and dealer partners to achieve sustainable business growth. In addition, we will continue to deepen our efforts in the field of environmental protection and education, actively practice corporate social responsibility and contribute to building a better future by using our core technologies. "

Chairman and General Manager of Konica Minolta Office Systems (China) Co., Ltd. Yus Nakata delivered a keynote speech

The creative line is coming

The 2024 fiscal year is a new starting point for Konica Minolta after its 150th anniversary. Based on this glorious starting point full of infinite possibilities, Konica Minolta China officially launched a new brand positioning - "global value-added digital integration service provider". At the conference, Ling Yun, head of the sales department and head of the marketing department of Konica Minolta OP (hereinafter referred to as "Ling Yun's head"), explained to the participants the significance of this new brand positioning: based on the profound advantages of core image technology, combined with the rapid development of AI, big data and other digital technologies, Konica Minolta is advancing with the times to promote digital intelligence integration and innovation; Through in-depth insight into the potential "visualization" demands of users in various industries, we can provide them with more intelligent, efficient and secure personalized solutions, enable users to effectively integrate multiple resources, accelerate the digital transformation that runs through all business processes of the enterprise, thus realizing intelligent restructuring of business models, invigorating unlimited business potential, and creating more business value.

New brand positioning of Konica Minolta Office System (China) Co., Ltd

At the same time, Minister Ling Yun also announced the new communication slogan of Konica Minolta China in the 24th fiscal year - "Creation reflects the future", which means that Konica Minolta will bravely explore more possibilities in the future with the innovation and imagination beyond the times, and use the power of artificial intelligence, digital technology, light, shadow and color to ignite more inspiration for the world.

Konica Minolta Office System (China) Co., Ltd. Brand slogan in 2024

When elaborating the core marketing strategy of fiscal year 2024, Ling Yunben pointed out that: "We will focus on the three core directions of 'customer/industry centered, pointing to full link value growth', 'global marketing enabling sustainable growth', and 'optimizing product lines, improving internal and external resilience, and enhancing core competitiveness', and are committed to accelerating the promotion of value marketing and global marketing strategies and promoting cross ecological cooperation; Implement new product strategy, implement various dealer support measures and actively build a more perfect business ecosystem. "

Ling Yun, Head of OP Sales Department and Head of Marketing Department of Konica Minolta Office Systems (China) Co., Ltd., delivered a keynote speech

Later, the head of Lingyun also shared the technical service policy of Konica Minolta in 2024: improve product and service quality through visual management, promote remote firmware upgrade of channels, realize rapid response to on-site technical problems through AR assistance, and optimize dealers CE Technical certification. Konica Minolta aims to help dealer partners further improve service response speed and quality through these measures, so as to better improve the "pleasure" and "satisfaction" of users.

In order to express our heartfelt thanks to the dealer partners for their hard work in the past year, the executives of Konica Minolta jointly gave a grand commendation to the dealer partners with outstanding performance in the 2023 fiscal year. We hope that we can continue to work together with our partners in the future to achieve win-win development and create a more brilliant future!

Senior executives of Konica Minolta presented awards to excellent dealers in 2023

Diversified applications show and witness digital achievements

In the comprehensive exhibition area of intelligent and connected workspace solutions for this dealer conference, Konica Minolta has carefully planned four theme exhibition areas - "Innovation · Print Integration", "Innovation · Interactive Collaboration", "Innovation · Business Upgrade" and "Innovation · Stimulate Potential". The four exhibition areas showcased the business value created by Konica Minolta's diversified intelligent business and digital printing solutions for users in different industries with multiple actual scenes and landing applications.

Integrated exhibition area of intelligent and connected workspace solutions

In the tide of digitalization, intelligence and industry 5.0 sweeping the world, Konica Minolta has always been at the forefront of the times, actively promoting its own and partners' digital transformation and business development with foresight and practical actions. Guided by the annual slogan of "Innovation reflects the future", Konica Minolta will adhere to the innovation concept and continue to explore and practice, work with the vast number of dealer partners to forge peers, jointly build a more diversified and benign business ecosystem, enable full link value growth, let the light of "Innovation" illuminate the way forward, and jointly move towards a better tomorrow!

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