Competition Hots up in the Thriving Office Equipment Sector.DUBLIN Dublin, city, Republic of Ireland Dublin, Irish Baile Átha Cliath, county borough (1991 pop. 915,516), Leinster, capital of the Republic of Ireland, on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the Liffey River. , Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c44531) has announced the addition of Xerox: Competitive Benchmarking Report to their offering. This report studies Xerox and its competitors that operate in the office equipment market, particularly the printing and imaging equipment segment. This includes products like scanners, copiers and fax machines. Offices are the primary buyers generating sales for the printing and imaging equipment. Canon, Ricoh and Hewlett Packard (HP) are the three main competitors for Xerox. The industry's dynamism is reflected by the heightened level of competition. Product offerings of all the four companies are almost at par, making the race for market leadership tougher. The report also includes the financial highlights including the stock market performance, P/E P/E See: Price/earnings ratio Analysis, Price/Sales, Price/Cash flow, Price/Book, ratio analysis-income statement and balance sheet analysis and performance ratios. Company Snapshot (1) A saved copy of memory including the contents of all memory bytes, hardware registers and status indicators. It is periodically taken in order to restore the system in the event of failure. (2) A saved copy of a file before it is updated. Brief Overview Business Segments Sales by Operations Sales by Geography Ownership Structure Key People 1. Industry Analysis 1.1 Industry Definition 1.2 Industry Segments Printing and Imaging Equipment Other Hardware 1.3 Market Overview Global revenue from printing and imaging equipment sales touched US$61.9 billion in 2004, a rise of about US$2 billion. 1.4 Trend Analysis Declining Printer Prices Dynamic Nature of Industry-Product Innovations Growth in US Document Outsourcing (1) Contracting with outside consultants, software houses or service bureaus to perform systems analysis, programming and datacenter operations. Contrast with insourcing. See netsourcing, ASP, SSP and facilities management. 1.5 Growth Drivers Increased Demand for Color Emerging Market-China 1.6 Issues and Implications Shorter Product Life Cycles 2. Corporate Analysis of Major Competitors: A Comparative Assessment Major competitors of Xerox are: Canon and Ricoh and Hewlett-Packard (HP). 2.1 Business Segments 2.1.1 Products and Services 2.1.2 Segment Strategies 2.1.3 Market Landscape The market players range from large international companies to relatively small firms. Majors like Xerox, Canon, HP and Dell, with technological backing have wider market reach. 2.2 Geographical Segmentation 2.3 Mergers and Acquisitions 2.4 Business Strategies 2.4.1 Xerox Expansion of Distribution Channels Focus on Color Partnering for Growth 2.4.2 Canon Developing Print Heads Based on Semiconductor Technology Commercialization plan Increased Focus on R&D Cost Cutting Strategy 2.4.3 Ricoh Developing Network Capable High Speed Printing Solutions Transition from Black and White to Color Business Solutions for Enhanced Productivity 2.4.4 HP Cost-Cutting and Internal Restructuring restructuring - The transformation from one representation form to another at the same relative abstraction level, while preserving the subject system's external behaviour (functionality and semantics). Growing Inorganically in·or·gan·ic adj. 1. a. Involving neither organic life nor the products of organic life. b. Not composed of organic matter. 2. Launching Newer Products for High Growth Segments 2.5 SWOT Analysis SWOT Analysis A tool that identifies the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of an organization. Xerox Strengths Market Leader in Office Equipment Products New Product Development Weakness High Level of Dependence on Flextronics Opportunities Color Copying & Printing Light Lens Segment Threat Exchange Rate Fluctuations Increasing Competition Product Offerings Becoming Obsolete OBSOLETE. This term is applied to those laws which have lost their efficacy, without being repealed, 2. A positive statute, unrepealed, can never be repealed by non-user alone. 4 Yeates, Rep. 181; Id. 215; 1 Browne's Rep. Appx. 28; 13 Serg. & Rawle, 447. Canon Ricoh HP 3. Comparables Analysis 3.1 Sales and Profitability Growth 3.1.1 Net Sales Net Sales The amount a seller receives from the buyer after costs associated with the sale are deducted. Notes: This amount is calculated by subtracting the following items from gross sales: merchandise returned for credit, allowances for damaged or missing goods, freight 3.1.2 Profitability 3.2.1 P/E 3.2.2 EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) A PostScript file format used to transfer a graphic image between applications and platforms. EPS files contain PostScript code as well as an optional preview image in TIFF, WMF, PICT or EPSI, the latter being an ASCII-only format. 3.2.3 Market Capitalization Market Capitalization A measure of a public company's size. Market capitalization is the total dollar value of all outstanding shares. It's calculated by multiplying the number of shares times the current market price. This term is often referred to as market cap. 3.3 Ratio Analysis 3.3.1 Liquidity 3.3.2 Profitability 3.3.3 Activity 3.3.4 Performance 4. Competitive Summary Hewlett Packard (HP) has been the leader in the office equipment industry, with its sales being US$79.9 billion in 2004. 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