Kodak Implosion Sparks a Revolution

Kodak Implosion Sparks a Revolution. Kodak was celebrating independence from high ink costs.

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[Todd82TA]

@tomegee55 Totally understandable, but still sad to see.

[tomegee55]

The ONLY reason these buildings were demolished is this:

The Kodak Park site is over 125 years old, and has many buildings which were no longer being used. Kodak has to pay taxes on these existing structures.

To reduce their tax burden and free this space to be better utilized, Kodak demolished well over 100 buildings within the Kodak Park complex.

Not wasteful - just good business.

[tomegee55]

I worked in this building for over 25 years.

I have NO hard feelings towards Kodak for their having to downsize the Paper Finishing Division (which was housed in Building 9), and consolidate it out in Colorado.

It was based solely on the fact that, due to the exponential growth of the digital photography market, customers no longer had to get prints of all the photos they'd taken; pictures could be viewed and stored digitally.

Fewer prints = less paper. It's as simple as that.

[watchdog68]

Ever since Kay Whitmore left, Kodak became a corporation of greed and back stabbing from filthy pigs like George Fisher and his cronies. The department I worked in was outsourced to China and Mexico in 2003, resulting in the displacement of 400 employees.

If George Eastman could come back from the grave to witness what has happened to Kodak, he would kill himself all over again.

[peanutbutterisfu]

i live right next to the buildings they took down,i thought world war3 was starting,it was so loud and my bed was shaking,and one window blew out.i know kodak isnt the best but i buy there stuff but i live here and eveytime they have laid people off the whole town feels it,people use to have money here not no more

[wandaslice]

Kodak Cameras are horrible they use really bad lenses i have a 12 mega pixel kodak and a 7 mega pixel canon and the canon takes way better shots

[thouston314159]

Celebrating going out of business? Blowing up one of their building in NY? Ah, bring back Kodachrome please be fore you go completely under. Thanks. BTW - In 1969 Kodak employed 145K people. Today that number is 22K. Hello, is this thing on???

[brofkand]

They may be a large seller, but by and large their digital products make very, very little profit. If any. Digital anything is pretty much a cutthroat market. They release 50 digital cameras in a year, probably just OEMed and never even seen in Rochester until a few weeks before they're shipped to Wal-Marts across the world.

The vast majority of Kodak's profits come from film. I mean vast majority. If they stopped making film, the company would be dead in two years tops.

[triac1964]

Revolution???

A bunch of P.T. Barnum quotes is what leaps into my mind, and I would say Kodak is counting on having alot of P.T.'s customer base in the future.

Kodak is famous for screwing up a one car funeral procession...good ridance. The business is back in competent hands now. Good luck in your window covering endeavor (See Qualex).

[MEC316]

oh and you seem to be forgetting that this hapeens ALL the time in other industries. Not just kodak.