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Kodak puts its film businesses on the market
- Updated: August 24, 2012 - 8:07 PM
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Eastman Kodak Co. -- once one of the world's best-known brands, now bankrupt and struggling -- is putting its film divisions up for sale.
Remember those little rolls in the yellow canisters? Those photo machines at Six Flags laden with evidence of your roller coaster-induced screams? Kodak doesn't want them anymore.
The Rochester, N.Y.-based company is offering its personalized imaging and document imaging businesses, which include "traditional photographic paper and still camera film products" as well as 105,000 photo-printing kiosks and the document-scanning branch.
The sale will also loop in Kodak's event imaging venture, which provides souvenir photos at theme parks and other venues. Kodak did not disclose how much it hopes to make off the sale.
But if the company has its way, the deal will go through in the first half of 2013.
Kodak filed for bankruptcy in January, battered by liquidity constraints and rivals who were much further ahead in the digital photography race. Now the company is auctioning off more than 1,000 of its patents and crafting a new strategy focused on products such as printers.
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