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Describe the history and core business of each company. Eastman Kodak Company known as Kodak was founded in 1880 it is an American multinational imaging and photographic equipment, materials and services company. It was founded by George Eastman. Its headquarters is located in Rochester New York. The company bears the name of its founder, George Eastman, who became interested in photography during the late 1870s while planning a vacation from his job as a bank clerk in Rochester, New York. (Muinr, K. (2012).
Kodak is best known for photographic film products. Kodak fixated on digital photography and digital printing and attempted to produce revenues through aggressive patent litigation. With the slogan "you press the button, we do the rest," George Eastman put the first simple camera into the hands of a world of consumers in 1888. In so doing, he made a cumbersome and complicated process easy to use and accessible to nearly everyone. (Muinr, K. (2012).
Since that time, the Eastman Kodak