Kodak wants its name off LA home of Oscars show
By The Associated Press
POSTED: February 2, 2012
Tags: Bankruptcy, Hollywood, Kodak, Kodak Theatre, Oscars
Eastman Kodak Co. is looking to get out of its naming rights contract with the Los Angeles theater that hosts the Academy Awards. The Democrat and Chronicle reports that the iconic photography company filed a motion this week in U.S. Bankruptcy Court seeking to end its sponsorship agreement with Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre, the first permanent [...]
Leaders discuss region’s economic outlook 
By Todd Etshman
POSTED: January 25, 2012
Tags: Annual Economic Breakfast, Gary Keith, Joel Seligman, Kodak, U of R
University of Rochester President Joel Seligman, along with Gary Keith, vice president and regional economist at M&T Bank, were featured speakers at the Annual Economic Breakfast at Locust Hill Country Club on Wednesday. Both speakers identified Eastman Kodak Co.’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy restructuring as a major economic factor in the area’s future (Seligman sits on [...]
Workers, retirees, area leaders ponder outlook
By The Associated Press
POSTED: January 19, 2012
Tags: Bankruptcy, future, Kodak, outlook, retirees, workers
The ripple effect from Eastman Kodak Co.’s bankruptcy reorganization extends in many directions: Employees brace again for layoffs, retirees fret over health care coverage, and the photography icon’s biggest debtors and stakeholders — from movie studios and big-box retailers to CEO Antonio Perez — are preparing for a sharp sting in their pocketbooks. Rochester Mayor [...]
Duffy on Kodak: We’ll get through this
By Denise M. Champagne
POSTED: January 19, 2012
Tags: Athena Awards, Kodak, Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy
Lt. Gov. Robert J. Duffy had not originally planned to talk about Eastman Kodak Co. when he was in town Thursday, but news of its filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection was pretty much the talk of the town. Duffy, who was scheduled to review the highlights of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s executive budget and [...]
Kodak creates new business structure
By The Associated Press
POSTED: January 10, 2012
Tags: business model, Kodak, lawsuits, restructuring
5:02 p.m. UPDATE: Eastman Kodak Co. has filed patent-infringement lawsuits against Apple Inc. and HTC Corp., claiming the smartphone makers are infringing several of its digital-imaging inventions. The lawsuits, filed Tuesday in federal court, claim that some of Apple’s iPhones, iPads and iPods and HTC’s smartphones and tablet devices infringe four Kodak patents related to [...]
Report: Kodak may file for bankruptcy
By The Associated Press
POSTED: January 4, 2012
Tags: Bankruptcy, digital imaging patents, Kodak, stock price
AP File Photo An uncomfortable suspicion that an icon of American business may have no future pushed investors to dump stock in Eastman Kodak Co. Wednesday.The ailing photography pioneer’s shares fell to a new all-time low after the Wall Street Journal reported that Kodak is preparing for a Chapter 11 filing “in the coming weeks” [...]
Kodak in danger of shares being delisted from NYSE
By The Associated Press
POSTED: January 3, 2012
Tags: delisting, Kodak, NYSE, stock price
Eastman Kodak Co. has been warned by the New York Stock Exchange that its stock will be delisted if the price remains below $1 per share for the next six months, the ailing photography company said Tuesday. The exchange put the company on notice after its shares’ average closing price was below $1 for 30 [...]
Kodak agrees to sell gelatin business
By The Associated Press
POSTED: December 23, 2011
Tags: gelatin business, Kodak, sale
NEW YORK — Eastman Kodak Co. says it agreed to sell its gelatin business in a move that could help take pressure off the cash-strapped company. Kodak is selling the Eastman Gelatine business to Rousselot, a division of the Vion Food Group. Terms were not disclosed. Eastman Gelatine produces gelatin used in photographic and printing [...]
Kodak patent ruling delayed amid cash worries
By The Associated Press
POSTED: December 19, 2011
Tags: Apple Inc., BlackBerry, Kodak, licensing deal, patent infringement, Research in Motion
A U.S. arbiter for trade disputes is delaying a ruling on Eastman Kodak Co.’s high-stakes patent-infringement claim against smartphone makers Apple Inc. and Research in Motion Ltd. The embattled photography pioneer is trying to negotiate a licensing deal it estimates could be worth up to $1 billion. An administrative judge overseeing the two-year dispute at [...]
Report: Kodak shuffles restructuring advisers
By The Associated Press
POSTED: December 6, 2011
Tags: advisers, Bankruptcy, finances, Kodak
Eastman Kodak Co. has reportedly shuffled its restructuring advisers in its battle to shore up its finances and steer clear of bankruptcy. The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Kodak has hired Sullivan & Cromwell’s restructuring practice to advise on ways to rework its finances. Citing sources it did not name, the newspaper says Kodak [...]
Kodak sells its image sensor unit
By The Associated Press
POSTED: November 7, 2011
Tags: image sensor, Kodak, sale
Eastman Kodak Co. says it has completed the sale of an image sensor business to a private equity firm in Beverly Hills, Calif. The photography pioneer is offloading what it calls “non-strategic assets” in a scramble to reinvent itself as a profitable player in digital imaging and printing. Financial terms of the sale to Platinum [...]
Federal judge backs Kodak in ink supplier lawsuit
By The Associated Press
POSTED: November 7, 2011
Tags: ink, Kodak, lawsuit, supplier
A federal judge has backed Eastman Kodak by barring an Ohio printer-ink manufacturer from cutting off supplies to the embattled photography pioneer for its older line of commercial printers. Cincinnati-based Collins Ink Corp. said last month it was ending a 10-year-old agreement to supply ink for the Versamark high-speed inkjet presses under Kodak’s brand name [...]
