<Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.kodak.com </Td> </Tr> <P> The Eastman Kodak Company (referred to simply as Kodak) is an American technology company that produces imaging products with its historic basis on photography . The company is headquartered in Rochester, New York and is incorporated in New Jersey . Kodak provides packaging, functional printing, graphic communications and professional services for businesses around the world . Its main business segments are Print Systems, Enterprise Inkjet Systems, Micro 3D Printing and Packaging, Software and Solutions, and Consumer and Film . It is best known for photographic film products . </P> <P> Kodak was founded by George Eastman and Henry A. Strong on September 4, 1888 . During most of the 20th century, Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film . The company's ubiquity was such that its "Kodak moment" tagline entered the common lexicon to describe a personal event that was demanded to be recorded for posterity . Kodak began to struggle financially in the late 1990s, as a result of the decline in sales of photographic film and its slowness in transitioning to digital photography . As a part of a turnaround strategy, Kodak began to focus on digital photography and digital printing, and attempted to generate revenues through aggressive patent litigation . </P> <P> In January 2012, Kodak filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York . In February 2012, Kodak announced that it would stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames and focus on the corporate digital imaging market . In August 2012, Kodak announced its intention to sell its photographic film, commercial scanners and kiosk operations, as a measure to emerge from bankruptcy, but not its motion picture film operations . In January 2013, the Court approved financing for Kodak to emerge from bankruptcy by mid 2013 . Kodak sold many of its patents for approximately $525,000,000 to a group of companies (including Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Samsung, Adobe Systems and HTC) under the names Intellectual Ventures and RPX Corporation . On September 3, 2013, the company emerged from bankruptcy having shed its large legacy liabilities and exited several businesses . Personalized Imaging and Document Imaging are now part of Kodak Alaris, a separate company owned by the UK - based Kodak Pension Plan . On March 12, 2014, it announced that the board of directors had elected Jeffrey J. Clarke as chief executive officer and a member of its board of directors . </P>

Kodak was once the largest supplier of photographic film