Kodak sells health imaging division

Here’s the announcement as carried on Bloomberg [Update, link no longer good]:

Eastman Kodak Co., the world’s largest photography company, agreed to sell its health-care imaging unit to Onex Corp. for as much as $2.55 billion to help focus on its transition to digital products.

There’s also this:

The health group’s approximately 8,100 employees will stay with the unit after the completion of the sale, expected in the first half of this year, Kodak said. The transaction includes manufacturing operations and an office building in Rochester.

I know that office building well . . .

The people I’ve worked with at Kodak are, virtually without exception, such great individuals. Salt of the earth, dedicated, intelligent, decent people. I wish them the absolute best as they ride out this new wave of change.