ARCHIVED  February 1, 1997

Kodak’s Windsor division integral to global success: Local plant plays critical role in variety of products

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He was a high school dropout and not considered particularly gifted academically. But at age 14, he took responsibility seriously and earnestly set about to support his widowed mother and two sisters, one of whom was severely handicapped.
The year was 1869, and George Eastman became an office boy in an insurance company paying $3 a week which could not adequately support his family even then. But Eastman’s ability to overcome adversity and a gift for organization and management helped him to form a photographic plate business which became the multinational Eastman Kodak Co. and today ranks as one of…

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Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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