Kodak Acquires A Part Of Imation Imaging Activities

The European Commission has approved an operation by which the Eastman Kodak Company ("Kodak") acquires certain businesses from Imation Corporation ("Imation"). The sectors involved are Imation's medical imaging business worldwide, Imation's dry imagesetting film technology, and Imation's document imaging business in Germany.

The investigation made preliminary by the Commission concentrated on the medical imaging sector, where overlaps and market shares were sufficient to merit detailed assessment. The Commission's assessment found that in this sector, markets generally are likely to be moving from national to a European-wide. Although the operation would lead to an increase in combined market shares for certain business activities connected with X-ray film technology and "wet laser" "imagers" (i.e. printers), no serious concerns arose due to factors such as the presence of strong competitors; the type of procurement arrangements in use on the part of hospitals and other such