2013 New Year's Greetings from the President, Masatoshi Matsuzaki
- Reorganizing Our Business Management System In Order to Achieve Strong Growth -
I have great pleasure in offering you my best wishes for the New Year.
In the global economy in 2012, as in 2011, the debt problems of the countries of Southern Europe cast their shadow not only over the European economy, but also the economies of the developed and developing nations, and economic growth was lower than projected at the start of the year. The strength of the yen against the euro and the US dollar had a considerable impact on Japanese industry, including Konica Minolta. While Barack Obama was re-elected as President of the United States, new leaders were appointed in France, China, South Korea and lately, Japan, all in the course of one year. Despite the hopes raised by the new Abe administration's avowed intent to implement measures to restore the Japanese economy to its former strength, we are aware that 2013 offers little hope of a marked recovery, either in the European economy, where fiscal reconstruction is the main theme, or the global economy in general.
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