| 日期： | October 25, 2007 |
| Time : | 6:00pm-7:00pm |
| Place : | Otemachi Sankei Plaza |
| Contents : | Zenji Miura先生，Ricoh Company，Ltd，CFO，使用以下材料解释了2008财年的临时结果。 < Attention > This material is prepared for the convenience of those investors who could not participate in the financial results meeting. Please understand that this material does not contain any direct quotations from anyone at the meeting. Additionally, the Company bases the estimates in this material on information currently available to management, which involves risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. |
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Financial Highlights | Financial Highlights /Appendix (PDF:178KB) |
| 临时陈述 (PDF:588KB) |
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| 综合金融人物 (PDF:26.1KB) |
| Q1. | Why was sales growth so low in the Americas? Will it recover? |
| A1. | We recognize that reasons are slow down of American economy, more unfavorable sales results than forecasted due to severe market competition and temporary effect of the acquisition of a major distributor by a competitor. Another reason is delay in reaping the benefits from consolidating sales subsidiaries in the US. In consideration of the above first half results, we reduce sales forecast for the Americas for this fiscal year from the previous forecast, however sales growth in Q2 has improved from Q1 and we expect sales to recover even more in the second half. |
| Q2. | Why the steady growth in Europe and the other regions? |
| A2. | We have deployed contingent strategies in Europe and the other regions so that even though performance varies from country to country in any given region, a synergistic effect comes into play across the whole region and results in steady performance overall. |
| Q3. | 为什么Q2操作率“办公解决方案”减少Y-O-Y？ |
| A3. | That was caused by unfavorable conditions in the Americas and the impact of a stronger yen than forecasted in Q2. |
| Q4. | What is sales projection of InfoPrint Solutions Company (InfoPrint) and Infotec Europe (Infotec) for the next fiscal year? |
| A4. | We forecast Infotec sales as about 40 billion yen for this fiscal year, and we intend to grow even higher for the next fiscal year. As for InfoPrint, we forecast 60 billion yen for 7 months of this fiscal year, which translates into 5 more months in the next fiscal year, so the added sales plus whatever extra will be included in the target for the next fiscal year. |
| Q5。 | What is the factor behind printer sales growth? Profitability is not experiencing a downturn? |
| A5. | Profitability is not going down due to steady increase of unit sales leading consumables profit higher. We offer total solution proposals not only with printers but also combinations of MFPs and printers with global service and support structure. We intend to grow by getting more major accounts. |
| Q6。 | What is target of inventories turnover period? |
| A6。 | In the first instance we intend to achieve 1.8 months less for the time being, though we will press on with further improvements. |