Olympus financial report discloses Olympus will keep focusing on high end mirrorless

Olympus released the 2018 year fiscal results and the medical business helped them to achieve a revenue (+6%) and gross profit (+7%) increase. The imaging business had a loss of 4% but this is due a one time event:

Operating loss posted due to expenses incurred in relation to the ceased operation of a Chinese manufacturing subsidiary (operating profit of ¥0.3 billion was recorded when excluding these expenses)

This is their forecast for the next year:

Panasonic full year financial report: Net sales and operating profit increased

Panasonic released the full financial report. The good news is that net sales and profit increased. The only bad news is that there is an extraordinary loss on parent companies (PDF report here).

The camera business is aggregated within the “Connected Solutions” segment. And while this segment did show positive numbers there is no info about how the camera business did:

And this is the forecast for next year:

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