BWI: NIKON starts Collection Centres to cater to wider base of Nikon Customers

Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Nikon India
Wednesday, December 15, 2010 01:48 PM IST (08:18 AM GMT)
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NIKON starts Collection Centres to cater to wider base of Nikon Customers
- Floating Camera Collection Points across locations to help Nikon customers in non-metros

New Delhi, Delhi, India, Wednesday, December 15, 2010 -- (Business Wire India) -- Nikon India, the 100% subsidiary of Nikon Corporation the leaders in imaging technology has started Nikon Collection Centre (NCC), an initiative taken by Nikon India to cater to the wider base of Nikon customers by floating Camera Collection Points across locations, especially the non metro areas.

Speaking on the occasion Mr. Hiroshi Takashina, Managing Director, Nikon India, said, "We wanted to negate the problems that Nikon customers in such non-metro areas are currently facing with regards to repairing their products. The New collection centers will provide users with a service or facility through which they can get their products repaired without facing any problem. This is a step towards bringing our customers closer to the brand Nikon."

The collection centres would act as main contact point for collection of any Nikon Imaging Products ( D-SLR's, COOLPIX Compact cameras, NIKKOR lenses and accessories) that shall be sent for repair to the nearest Service Facility Centre for necessary correction by NCC. Once repaired, the product will be sent back to NCC from where customer can collect his product.

Under the plan for the business year 2010-2011, Nikon has already started the services in Bhopal, Noida & Mangalore. Going forward Nikon plans to start the services in Siliguri, Dehradun, Kanpur, Nagpur, Mysore and Tiruanantpuram within this month and Dhampur, Sambalpur, Udaipur, Varanasi, Shimla, Amritsar, Jammu, Agra, Coimbatore, Vishakapatnam and Rajkot taking the total to 20 by the end of this financial year.

About Nikon India

Nikon India distributes markets and services the complete range of Nikon imaging products, including its Nikon D-SLR as well as its compact camera, the Nikon COOLPIX and a range of NIKKOR lenses and service and repair of Industrial products. These include microscopes and technical measuring instruments.

Recently Nikon has launched its entry level SLR D3100, a camera equipped with a new CMOS image sensor developed by Nikon and a new image-processing engine that enable capture of high-definition images exhibiting superior image quality, and a New Guide mode that allows users to capture images just as they intended, while in the recent past it has introduced some wonderful D-SLR cameras- D3S a multipurpose and all rounder professional camera and the D300s a combination of professional-level performance with agility which will completely invigorate photography for its consumers. In the COOLPIX compact camera category, Nikon has recently added five new models namely COOLPIX P7000, S1100pj, S80, S8100, S5100 to the existing range of eight models: P100, S8000, S6000, S4000, S3000, L110, L22, L21.which takes the total to 13. The complete range is available in 46 bright and energetic colors to suit color preferences of Nikon customers.

With offices in Mumbai, Kolkata and Bengaluru, Nikon is strengthening its distribution network all across India. The company has established total of nineteen ASCs (authorized service centers) for complete service support for Nikon customers while three more are in pipeline for the year 2010-2011.

Nikon has also set up D-SLR and COOLPIX zone pan India which showcases the entire range of D-SLR cameras, COOLPIX cameras and an elaborate range of NIKKOR lenses. These zones allow consumers, both professional and amateurs get to touch, feel and experience the Nikon cameras with combination of lenses and other accessories providing expert guidance, technical know-how all under one roof.

Nikon Corporation: Japan

Founded in 1917 as Nippon Kōgaku; the company was renamed in 1988 as Nikon Corporation. Nikon has truly evolved as an institution of creativity in imaging arena, Semi conductors, Industrial Equipments and specialized in optics as well. Nikon technologies are active not only in Nikon's core products such as cameras, microscopes and IC steppers/scanners, but they also squarely support innovation in leading-edge science, and they contribute to the development of society and industry as a whole.

Nikon Corporation, Imaging Company announced the worldwide launch of Nikon Next (www.nikonnext.com). Nikon Next site will serve as a new type of imaging gallery for the exhibition of works taking electronic visual displays as the final means of expression in a wide variety of formats, including still images, movies, text and audio, and Flash files, by established artists in the photography industry along with up-and-coming photographers and imaging artists who will serve as the backbone of the photo imaging culture to come. Visitors to the site will be able to search works by artist name or shooting location.


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