Adrian Clarke takes over responsibility for Fujifilm Pan-European Photo Imaging

Adrian Clarke, Fujifilm

With immediate effect Adrian Clarke, the current SVP of Fujifilm Electronic Imaging Europe, will be taking over the role of Senior Vice President (SVP) of Photo Imaging, reporting to Nobuhisa Sekiguchi of Fujifilm Corporation in Tokyo and Junji Okada, the President of Fujifilm Europe. This new role will be in addition to his existing responsibilities in Europe and in Fujifilm UK.

Fujifilm’s bases in Europe are at Kleve for Electronic Imaging and Düsseldorf for Photo Imaging, so Adrian will be commuting between the UK, where he remains Director in charge of the UK’s digital camera business, and Germany, where Fujifilm’s European HQs are located. The European role means managing both Business Domains in approximately 30 countries, and includes responsibility for Fujifilm’s photofinishing laboratories in mainland Europe.

Adrian joined Fujifilm back in 1982 from Cambridge University and has worked in many of the different business domains within Fujifilm Corporation. Spanning a period of 28 years, Adrian has progressed his way up through the company, achieving an MBA from Cass Business School, London in 1990 along the way.

For the last three years Adrian has been overseeing Fujifilm’s digital camera business in Europe, and during that time has seen a 30% increase in overall volume, and strong share growth in key markets like Russia and Turkey.

Commenting on his additional responsibilities Adrian remarked: “This is an example of new thinking back in Japan: the Directors are determined to give local staff key jobs overseas. There’s a really good mix now of dedicated Europeans working alongside first-class Japanese. There’s also new thinking with regards to synergies between cameras and printing systems. The teams will be working much more closely together and we are determined to present one ‘photographic’ face to the market.”

About Fujifilm Corporation

Fujifilm Corporation is one of the major operating companies of Fujifilm Holdings. Since its founding in 1934, the company has built up a wealth of advanced technologies in the field of photo imaging, and in line with its efforts to become a comprehensive healthcare company, Fujifilm is now applying these technologies to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases in the Medical and Life Science fields. Fujifilm is also expanding growth in the highly functional materials business, including flat panel display materials, and in the graphic systems and optical devices businesses.

About Fujifilm in Europe

Nowadays Fujifilm entities operate in over 50 group companies in Europe and employ more than 5,000 people engaged in R&D, manufacturing, sales, and service support. Throughout Europe they serve a range of industries including medical, chemical, graphic arts, electronic materials, optics, recording media, motion picture, and photographic technologies. Fujifilm Europe GmbH (Duesseldorf, Germany) acts as Strategic Headquarters for the region and supports its group companies in Europe by formulating marketing and corporate strategies.

Duesseldorf, 25 August 2010