I am looking for the total sales of Canon/Nikon digital cameras each year for the past 3 yrs. Thank you.. I think Canon and Nikon are both publicly traded companies. You should be able to drill through their financial results to find the numbers you're looking for.
According to IDC the top 3 by US Sales are Kodak (2.15 M cameras), Canon ( 2M) and Sony (1.78M). The rest are about 10% behind. Canon could move to #1 spot this year.
Global numbers are:
Canon - 12.63 M cameras
Sony - 12.32 M
Kodak - 8.71 M
Canon should continue to dominate as the new growth is spurred by SLR's at the expense of Sony's covetted Pro-sumer market.
Nikon doesn't seem to be a player anymore. Quoted from PTN magazine pg 24
"The Japan report - What's happening in the japanese imaging market - written by Machiko Ouchi"
"For Fiscal year 2005/2006 which ended March 2006 (December for Canon)"
"Canon has reported all time high profits on record revenue of 3,754 billion Yen. Camera buisiness division posted a 15.2% rise in sales. Digital Camera sales rose 20% with 16.9 million units including 1.9 million DSLR units with a revised output projection of 20 million units including 2.4 million units in DSLR due to demand for replacement/add-ons are stronger then expected
Nikon's buisisness more than doubled for operating profit and revenue alike over previous fical term, 34.4 billion yen on sales of 416 billion yen
Konica Minolta ceased production transfering DSLR buisiness to SOny and the domestic business of the photo products was transfered to Dai Nippon Printing Co.
Olympus's imaging products returned to profits in operation of 4.79 yen on sales of 254.7 billion yen and sold some 8.4 million units of digicams including 250,000 DSLR's
Pentax's Camera division sales took 48.7% of total sales of 142.2 billion yen yet posted an operating loss of 1.2 billion yen. However the company's performance is getting better narrowing the loss to half of fiscal 2004 and it projects a turnaround to black to 1 billion profit for the camera busisness in Fiscal 2006
Fujifilm suffered profit decline of 57% to 70.4 billion yen on sales of 2,667 billion yen due mostly to restrucuring the ailing photographic film and minilab divisions. the imaging busisness posted a 7.2% sales decline and 1.7 billion yen operational profit was written off for restructering expenses, resulting in a final loss of 75.7 billion yen."
2006 projection for camera production
Company 2006 projection year on year growth
Canon 20,000,000 118.3%
Sony 15,500,000 114.8%
Nikon 8,850,000 105.4%
Olympus 8,400,000 104.8%
Panasonic 8,000,000 193.2%
Fujifilm 7,000,000 112.9%
Casio 6,000,000 130.4%
Pentax 3,100,000 110.7%
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8 firm total 77,250,000 119%
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