Article: Kodak struggling to make mark in digital photography

Kodak struggling to make mark in digital photography

By BEN DOBBIN Associated Press

Saturday, July 26, 2003

Rochester, N.Y. -- First, it was new competition. Then new technology. Now, analysts say struggling Eastman Kodak Co. has two to three years to find a place in the world of digital photography.

If not, the venerable pioneer of mass-market picture-taking, which grew fat in the 20th century off high-margin, silver-halide film packaged in yellow boxes, could begin to fade into history.

The chemical-photography businesses that turned Kodak into an American icon with one of the most recognizable brand names on Earth have been quietly on the wane for a decade -- but their decline is suddenly ...

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