Fujifilm’s Imaging Business turns around for 9 month period

Fujifilm Holdings reported its 9-month (April to December 2014) financial results that the net profit jumped by 50.2% year-on-year to 93.86 billion Yen on sales of 1,815 billion Yen. The operating profit improved by 24.9% over the previous year to 124.425 billion Yen. The operating profit of the Imaging Business unit posterd 17.4 billion Yen from a loss of 1.45 billion Yen, on sales of 276.5 billion Yen, a 0.5% fall. The company attributed the performance mainly to the digital camera business, centering on the X series and favourable performance of the photo business. Sales of digital camera segment posted a 12.9% fall to 54.9 billion Yen with 1.84 million unit sales of the X series. Photo business section sales rose by 11.8% to 182.7 billion Yen and optical device sales declined by 24.6% to 38.9 billion Yen.