Around The World with Ricoh II

Ricoh keeps Adidas International in Full Swing




Ricoh Australia is again sponsoring the Adidas International, Sydney’s largest annual international sporting event. For the fifth consecutive year, Ricoh is the Official Supplier of office automation equipment to the tennis tournament. Servicing areas such as the Media Centre, Tournament Organisers’ offices and Player Services offices throughout the event, Ricoh network printers, MFDs and faxes will assist in maintaining efficient and effective administration and communication.

The profile of the Adidas International is increasing each year as more top tier players use the Tournament to prepare for the Australian Open, the opening Grand Slam event of the tennis year. This year’s impressive line-up of players includes Lleyton Hewitt, Mark Philippoussis, Juan Carlos Ferrero, Carlos Moya, Kim Clijsters, Justine Henin-Hardenne and Lindsay Davenport to name a few.



Ricoh is proud to be associated with the Adidas International and to once again assist in its success. The tournament runs from Sunday 11th January until Saturday 17th January.



January 2004

Ricoh Charity Bowls Day 2004


Ricoh’s 5th Charity Event In Support
Of The Sunnyfield Association.
With the continued support of sponsors and donators, Ricoh Australia will be holding its inaugural Ricoh Charity Bowls Day on 1 April 2004 at the Paddington Bowling Club

The Sunnyfield Association
Over the past 50 years, The Sunnyfield Association has provided a range of services for people with intellectual disabilities including accommodation, training and employment, transport, programs for young adults, and community access programs.

Ricoh Australia in support of Sunnyfield
Ricoh Australia has raised more than $500,000 over the last four charity golf days. Proceeds have been directed towards The Sunnyfield Association GateWay Project to construct a new 2,000 square metre training and employment centre. Fundraising for Stage II is now in progress to develop day support, training and aged care facilities.

Ricoh Cleans Up!
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Ricoh congratulates all its volunteers for their efforts on Clean Up Australia Day 2004

On Sunday 7th March Ricoh fielded a team of 106 volunteers to participate in Clean Up Australia Day, 2004. Numbers of volunteers increased by 25% from the previous year. Representatives from Head Office and each branch gave up their time to don a pair of gloves, roll up their sleeves and get a little dirty for the sake of their local environment.
Clean up sites included Bonython Park in Adelaide, Riverside Drive in South Brisbane, Gladstone Street in Fyshwick, the Yarra River end of Church Street and nearby bike track in Richmond, Langley Park in Perth and John Fisher Park/Curl Curl Lagoon in Sydney.

Clean Up Australia Day proved to be a great team building exercise for management and staff. Lunch and refreshments back at the branches was well received by all, after an early start and a full morning of cleaning up.

Rubbish collected around the country included truck tyres, shopping trolleys, children's bikes, park benches, metal, building materials, polystyrene, plastic drink bottles and above all else cigarette butts which leak toxic chemicals into local waterways.

It was heartening to find in our second year of participation in Clean Up Australia Day we were able to cover a greater area in the same amount of time. However, the net result was less rubbish being collected. This is one day where it is definitely a case of "less is more".

Site supervisor in Sydney, Lorna Plate says "On behalf of Curl Curl Lagoon Friends I would like to thank you and your colleagues for your extensive efforts to "Clean Up" the Curl Curl Lagoon fringes on Clean Up Australia Day, 7 March 2004. We have our regulars who turn up year after year, but the assistance of your members and their enthusiastic families made the difference to what could have been a wet and miserable event. Please extend our thanks and keep up all that great environmental work you are doing at Ricoh Australia".

Ricoh Australia congratulates all its volunteers for their efforts.

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Ricoh Charity Bowls Day 2004


Ricoh’s 5th Charity Event In Support
Of The Sunnyfield Association.
With the continued support of sponsors and donators, Ricoh Australia will be holding its inaugural Ricoh Charity Bowls Day on 1 April 2004 at the Paddington Bowling Club

The Sunnyfield Association
Over the past 50 years, The Sunnyfield Association has provided a range of services for people with intellectual disabilities including accommodation, training and employment, transport, programs for young adults, and community access programs.

Ricoh Australia in support of Sunnyfield
Ricoh Australia has raised more than $500,000 over the last four charity golf days. Proceeds have been directed towards The Sunnyfield Association GateWay Project to construct a new 2,000 square metre training and employment centre. Fundraising for Stage II is now in progress to develop day support, training and aged care facilities.

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Ricoh Charity Bowls Day 2004
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A crackerjack day for Ricoh

On Thursday, 1 April, Ricoh’s inaugural Charity Bowls Day at the Paddington Bowling Club raised an impressive $95,000 for the Sunnyfield Association – an organisation committed to helping those with intellectual disabilities.

Celebrity guests and sporting greats joined Sydney business identities for a fun-filled afternoon on the sun-drenched Paddington green. Ten-times Australian decathlon champion, Peter Hatfield delighted in showing Aussie golfers Geraldine Brown and Gary Dawson and gold medallist water-polo player, Debbie Watson, a whole new ballgame.

Joy Smithers from Channel 7’s All Saints assisted on the day with all proceeds from the successful charity auction going to Sunnyfield’s training and employment facility, the GateWay II project.

Nigel Shepherd, Managing Director of Ricoh, says the Bowls Day concludes yet another successful charity drive for the company.

“In four years Ricoh has contributed over half a million dollars to phase one of Sunnyfield’s GateWay project. The success of this year’s Charity Bowls Day will be yet another valuable contribution to the Gateway II campaign.”

Ricoh gets approval for merger
Publish Date : 4/30/2005 12:47:00 PM Source : Moneyplans.net Staff


Domestic office automation giant Ricoh India Limited Friday said it has got the approval of the Mumbai High Court for merging Gestetner India with the company.

Gestetner and Ricoh had announced their merger into a single entity in August last year. The boards of both the companies had approved the feasibility of the merger.


The share-swap ratio had been recommended at 1:6 whereby six shares of Ricoh would be get one share of Gestetner. The merger decision had been taken to maximise the operational efficiencies and leverage the core strengths.

Both the companies are the subsidiaries of $18 billion Japanese automation major Ricoh and command a 22-percent domestic market share for digital multifunctional copiers.

The merged entity is aiming at doubling sales to Rs.3 billion ($68.18 million) with 30 percent market share by 2007.

--Indo-Asian News Service

Ricoh are delighted to have signed a £10 million sponsorship deal to secure the international naming rights for Coventry City’s new arena.

Prestige and visibility
The Ricoh Arena is part of a £113 million multi-purpose development, which extends over 72 acres and is less than two hours drive away for 75% of the mainland UK population. It will host some of the UK’s most high profile sports and entertainment events, attracting big names such as Kylie Minogue, U2 and David Bowie.

It will also be highly visible. Both on land, with 2.5 million people visiting it and 52 million vehicles driving past each year. And in the air, since it is on the flight path for two international airports and has rooftop signage purported to be visible from the moon!

Mixing business with pleasure
For Ricoh, the venue will also provide a headquarters from which to direct several new strategic services. Ricoh already has 381 offices and 73,200 employees worldwide, including a production plant in Telford and operations in London, Middlesex and Wellingborough. However, expansion in Coventry will enable the company to achieve its 30% growth target over the next three
years.

Ricoh is the 8th largest IT company in the world, and is number one in terms of market share the European copier market. It also has existing experience of sponsoring stadiums, such as the hugely successful Ricoh Coliseum in Toronto, Canada.

Takahisa Yokoo, MD of Ricoh UK Ltd, said: “We are delighted to be involved with such a high profile and exciting development. The Ricoh Arena will be a real launch pad for our major UK expansion initiative.

Paul Fletcher, Chief Executive of Arena Coventry Ltd, which will manage the new development, is also delighted with the deal.

He commented, “Ricoh is a market leader in its field and a truly international company with multi-million businesses across the globe. This makes it the ideal partner for the Arena, which is one of the most prestigious event, conference and exhibition centres in the country.”

He also talked about the boost to the local community. “The Ricoh Arena will be a landmark building, creating a new gateway into the city and providing one of the most spectacular facilities in the country. We have been working closely with the company in the run-up to today’s signing and are developing very exciting plans for the arena. I have been involved in two major naming rights in the past but this deal – like the project as a whole – is the best yet and will result in a high profile for the arena, the city and for Ricoh.”

Ken Taylor, leader of Coventry City Council, observed that the development had already had a positive impact on the city and the region.

“This is fantastic news for the Arena and, more importantly it's fantastic news for Coventry. Ricoh is a leader in its field. The fact that the company has chosen to invest so heavily here, cements our fast growing reputation as a city that's going places.”

He went on “Our regeneration work has transformed so much of the city and is now getting an international reputation. In fact, we're already the third best city in England to do business in. Coventry will continue to flourish thanks to the hard work of local people, the many assets it has, and the growing number of international businesses who want to locate here.”

He concluded “We're delighted to be welcoming Ricoh to Coventry, as we continue the transformation of our city and look to a prosperous future for us all.”