Annual Report 2011

Business Overview

Group Performance in FY March 2011

Breakdown of net sales, Group Net sales/Operating income

HealthcareOptics Business Technologies

Business Technologies

Review of Operations

This business company consists of the mainstay office field and the growth field of production print.

Office field: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC is engaged in the worldwide manufacture and sale of office equipment centered on A3 MFPs (multi-functional peripherals) and A4 MFPs based on laser printers, as well as equipment maintenance services.

Production print field: In addition to the existing “business convenience store” business field, offering services related to intensive in-house printing, copying and data printouts, the Company is involved in manufacture and sales of equipment for production print systems and graphic arts, and solution services in the field of digital commercial printing. Substantial market growth is projected in commercial printing going forward, driven by small lot printing of multiple items.

Sales Breakdown by Geographical Region and Percentage of Sales from Non-hardware

Overview of Results for FY March 2011 and Strategies Going Forward

Optics

Review of Operations

This business company consists of businesses in the fields of display materials, memory devices and image input/output components.

Display materials field: The KONICA MINOLTA OPTO. INC. develops TAC film for LCD polarizers and VA-TAC film for increasing viewing angle, which are widely used as monitors for the televisions, PCs and mobile phones.

Memory devices field: The Company has businesses in pickup lenses for optical disks, particularly objective lenses used in DVD and Blu-ray Disc™ drives for AV equipment and PCs, in addition to glass substrates for HDDs used mainly in 2.5-inch hard disks for notebook PCs.

Image input/output components field: Operations involve the development of lens units for digital cameras, digital video cameras, and mobile phones with inbuilt cameras.

Market Position of Major Products

Overview of Results for FY March 2011 and Strategies Going Forward

Healthcare

Review of Operations

In the healthcare field, where digitization is gaining momentum, Konica Minolta MEDICAL & GRAPHIC, INC. is promoting manufacture, sales, maintenance and service businesses for diagnostic imaging systems, centered on high-resolution digital X-ray diagnostic image readers that take advantage of cutting-edge image processing technology.

Overview of Results for FY March 2011 and Strategies Going Forward

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