United States. Kodak was founded in 1880 by inventor George Eastman and is headquartered in Rochester, New York, USA. Kodak is one of the major players in the "information imaging" industry, a $385 billion industry that includes equipment (such as digital cameras and PDAs), infrastructure (such as online networks and imaging systems), and services and media (such as software, film and photo paper to access, analyze and print images). Kodak leverages advanced technology, broad market coverage and a series of industry partnerships to provide customers with innovative products and services that meet their needs for the rich information contained in images. The company has the following major business areas: photography - providing digital and traditional products and services to mass consumers, professional photographers and cinematographers; medical imaging - providing traditional and digital image acquisition, storage and output products and services to the medical and health industry ; Commercial Imaging - provides image capture, output and storage products and services to businesses and governments; Components - provides optical components and photosensitive chips to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs); and Display - designs and manufactures the world's leading organic light-emitting diodes 3D (OLED) display screen and other special materials. The company's global revenue in 2002 reached US$12.8 billion, more than half of which came from markets outside the United States. Kodak has approximately 70,000 employees worldwide, 39,000 of whom are in the United States. The company has production bases in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Australia and China, and sells a wide range of imaging products to almost every country in the world. Kodak invested US$1.26 billion in March 1998 to participate in the reform of China's state-owned enterprises, reached comprehensive cooperation with some parts of China's photosensitive industry, and made a huge contribution to the improvement of the overall level of China's photosensitive industry. It was hailed by the Chinese government as "a new step in the reform of state-owned enterprises". model". In 2002, Kodak was named one of Asia's leading companies by the Far Eastern Economic Review magazine. The selection indicators included the company's overall leadership, high quality, innovation, management vision, financial status and value.

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