Canon consumers to mint gifts this Christmas

New Delhi, December 18, 2007: Canon India Pvt. Limited, India’s No 1. Complete Digital Imaging Company announced a consumer promo on their consumables called the ‘Print & Mint’ offer. As per the offer, consumers get a scratch card on purchase of select models of original Canon consumables. The scratch card ensures assured gifts like digital cameras to digital camcorders, from digital camcorders to optical mouse, pen drives etc. The grand prize for the offer is a chance to win a Canon home theatre projector worth over Rs. 2 lacs. The contest is yet another step taken by Canon to create excitement for consumer and to step up their fight against counterfeit, grey, parallel imports and refills. The offer which is valid till March 2008 pan India.

The contest is open on the following models of Canon consumables:

BCI-24BLK

PG 40

CL 41

PG 830

CL 831

EP-25

EP-303

Commenting on the new scheme Mr. V.P. Sajeevan, Assistant Director-CSP, Canon India said, “One of Canon’s goals is to address the problem of purchase of fake cartridges consumers will be able to distinguish original Canon consumables from gray and we would also be rewarding their purchase with exciting gifts. This also reinforces our commitment to fight against fake consumables.”

He further added, “Canon photo printers assure fine lab quality photo prints and consumers can enjoy this promised quality only on use of original Canon cartridges. This offer is a step to excite the customer to buy original cartridges. Delivering customer choice and value is critical for driving continued growth, and the unprecedented level of innovation that Canon is applying towards customer experience is as important as the innovation behind the technology that goes into our high-performance products. With this objective in mind we come out with interesting contest and the Print & Mint contest is an example of this.”

Every customer will receive a scratch card with their purchase of Original Canon Consumables. Each scratch card has a unique code which needs to be sent through SMS by the customer on CAN to 54646.

About Canon Inc

Canon Inc. is a global leader in photographic and digital imaging solutions. Its global network now includes 184 companies, employing some more than 108,000 people. It is dedicated to the advancement in technology and innovation and commits 10% of its total revenue each year to R&D. 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 a comprehensive range of sophisticated contemporary digital imaging products that include photocopiers, multi-functional peripherals, fax-machines, printers, scanners, digital cameras, camcorders and multi media projectors. Five imaging engines of Image Capturing, 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 400 people. Canon has 280 channel partners, 416 retail outlets including 320 IT Imaging Zones, 54 Digiclick Zones, 6 Digic Video Zones, 4 Canon X’perience and 32 Canon Care Centres.

It also has over 100 authorized service centers and more than 2700 resellers across 300 towns in India it does business in. Canon has also cued in on the alliances route with 13 national and 28 city specific different retail chains.

Creating an industry benchmark with new technologies in the latest product range the company launched 87 new products in 2006 including the launch of 51 products on a single day which is an industry landmark for the largest number of products launched in a single day. Overall, Canon India touched revenue of Rs. 400 cr in 2006.

Canon India has a Software Development Centre located in Gurgaon. 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.

In 2007, Canon India will be celebrating its 10th Anniversary of operations in India. As a part of these celebrations Canon is working on strengthening its brand in the country and ‘Indianising’ the brand appeal, which will see Canon embarking on many innovative and exciting programs to engage with customers, channel partners and employees.

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