TWICE's Annual Imaging Exec Roundtable Talks Tsunami, Trends

By Greg Tarr -- TWICE, 8/22/2011

NEW YORK – Digital imaging company executives brought both good news and bad news to TWICE’s recent annual Imaging Executives Roundtable.

The bad news is that the Fukushima tsunami crippled inventory levels over much of the first half of the year, limiting sales, promotions and consumer demand.

The good news is that the worst of it is over and business is pretty much back to normal, bringing with it renewed demand for higher-ticket camera products at a time when the global economic meltdown has hobbled demand for many other product segments.

What follows are edited transcriptions of our discussion with leading imaging sales and marketing executives addressing some of the hot-button issues of the year to date.