Marketshare

Ricoh and Canon both say they are number 1 in the US and they are both right depending on how you are counting.

Canon includes its desktop MFPs that sell in retail and Ricoh includes all MFPs priced above $1,000. Both include products that sell through any channel, but Canon has far more retail products that skew sales share in its favor. By Ricoh's math, it is number 1 with a 23.1 US share, followed by Canon.

Ricoh also stated that it had the #1 color mfp share in 2009 (7 straight years) and the #2 monochrome MFP share.

At Konica Minolta's May dealer meeting it estimated the following A3 market share breakdown:

Canon - 29%
Ricoh 25%
KM - 16% (Grew overall placements in FY 2010 by 20%)
Xerox - 15%
Toshiba 5%
KM - 4.5%
Sharp 3.5% (big fall last year)

Konica minolta also claimed the top share in A3 color sales, which is believable and impressive.

This doesn't exactly clarify things, since everyone still says they are #1, but hopefuly it provides some color on the situation.

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This doesn't exactly clarify things, since everyone still says they are #1, but hopefuly it provides some color on the situation.

KM is growing so fast it actually made the list twice.

Yeah, that's kyocera mita at the bottom. I'll spell it out for you next time since there are so many vendors in the marketplace.

Thanks, great info!

thats only the A3 market right? this is the frustrating part about marketing to this industry everybody claims they are #1 and have numbers to prove it

GIntel Sharp's numbers? do you happen to know what they were prior to their Fall from grace?

Yeti,

I believe they fell from just above 4%, but thats still a decline of roughly 15%.