TOKYO Japan's Fujifilm Holdings reached a deal on Jan. 31 to take majority control of Xerox, its decades-long U.S. partner. The move achieves Fujifilm's long-held goal of making and selling office equipment throughout the world under one roof.
For Shigetaka Komori, Fujifilm's 78-year-old chairman and CEO, the move was something he thought he would never be able to accomplish in his lifetime. About a decade ago, a Nikkei reporter heard Komori lament, "If I were 10 years younger, I would have considered buying Xerox."
