(1888PressRelease)
December 11, 2008 - Canon India Private Limited, India’s No.1 Complete Digital Imaging Company announced the rollout of two special Christmas offers, “Canon Xmas Offer” and “Canon 10 X Creative Kit Offer” to reinforce the company’s consumer focus. These offers are valid on the Canon Inkjet All-In-One (MP145 or MP198) and Inkjet (iP 1980) printers respectively and will run across 23 cities until December 31, 2008.
Under the Canon Xmas offer, customers who buy Canon AIO Printers (only models MP 145 or MP-198) from authorized Canon partners in India will be eligible to claim a "2 GB USB Pen Drive" as a gift from Canon along with the purchase.
The “Canon 10 X Creative Kit Offer” is available on the iP 1980 printer, used extensively for home printing, primarily by students. Along with the purchase of the Canon iP 1980 printer, customers will get a specially designed “10 X Creative Kit” containing 10 handy, attractive accessories like a pair of scissors, a stapler, a photoframe, one strip of stickers, one creative park CD, one glue stick, media paper, a tape dispenser, a packet of coloured U-clips. Along with this the offer also includes a 6 months extended on-site warranty on the printer.
Commenting on these special offers, Mr. Alok Bharadwaj, Senior Vice President, Canon India said, “At Canon we value and realize the importance of our customers. It is our constant endeavour to reach out to our customers by various such celebratory offers. These markets continue to be the most crucial markets for Canon India. We look forward to providing our customers with a more fulfilling experience in terms of product and services in the future as well."
Mr VP Sajeevan, Assistant Director, Consumer System Products Division, Canon India added,
“At Canon it is our endeavour to encourage consumer photo printing and over a period of time we have seen considerable growth in this segment. Therefore promotional schemes have been designed around this to attract more consumers. We have invested heavily in the Creative Park website which helps in making eye-catching scrapbooks, calendars, greeting cards thereby gaining consumer interest in photo printing. All the accessories included in the 10 X Creative Kit are well thought-out tools which indirectly help people to engage in home photo printing.” He also added, “At a time of economic recession, the attractive schemes are intended to positively influence consumer purchase decisions instead of deterring the same.”
Canon yet again lives up to its commitment of delighting customers always and celebrates with its customers this Christmas.
About Canon Inc
Canon Inc. is a global leader in photographic and digital imaging solutions. Its global network now includes 239 companies, employing some more than 131352 people. It is dedicated to the advancement in technology and innovation and commits 10% of its total revenue each year to R&D. Canon is ranked 36th on the Best Global Brands and 124th on the Fortune Global 500 ranking based on profit. In 2007 Canon posted net sales of $39,310 million. Canon has consistently remained as one of the top 3 companies to have earned the most number of patents over the last decade. Since 1993, Canon continues to be ranked as one of world's largest corporations by the Fortune Global 500 Ranking. Guided by its kyosei philosophy, which focuses on "living and working together for the common good”, Canon delivers high performance and user-friendly products and solutions to improve efficiency both in the office and home environment. More information is available on www.canon.co.in
Canon in India
Canon India Pvt. Ltd. is a 100% subsidiary of Canon Singapore Pte. Ltd.a world leader in imaging technologies. Set up in 1997, Canon India markets 145 comprehensive range of sophisticated contemporary digital imaging products that include photocopiers, multi-functional peripherals, fax-machines, printers, scanners, All-in-ones, digital cameras, camcorders and multi media projectors. Five Technology ‘imaging’ engines of Optical, Electrophotography, Bubble Jet, Semiconductor and Display drive these cutting-edge technology products. The company today has offices in 7 cities across India and employs over 730 people. Canon has 381 primary channel partners, 3000 secondary retail points, 50 Canon Flagship partners & 33 Canon Care Centres. Canon products are available in over 300 towns in India. Overall Canon’s presence is expected to increase to 4000 outlets by December 2008.
Creating an industry benchmark with new technologies in the latest product range the company launched 85 new products in 2008. Overall, Canon India is expected to touch revenues of Rs. 700 Crores in 2008.
Canon India has a Software Development Centre located in Noida. Set up in the middle of 1999, the Canon Software Development Centre is one of the six such cutting edge technology centres established by Canon Inc. globally. It develops original technologies as well as supporting Canon marketing companies worldwide with application software. Canon India is ISO 9001:2000 and ISO14001:2004 certified and its Software Development Centre has achieved the CMM level 3 status. In 2006, Canon India received the CII-EXIM Business Excellence Award for Strong commitment to excel.
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