Manabu Yamazaki, president and CEO of Canon India, speaks about the effects of emerging OTT platforms, growing demand from content creators, and catering to it all despite the logistical challenges of the pandemic
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Canon India recently launched its Cinema Excellence Suite to showcase its extensive range of cinema imaging technology to the veterans of the Indian film industry. A converted bus will be carrying the entire production and post-production workflow experience directly to cinematographers, DOPs, filmmakers, and production houses in Mumbai over three months, then moving to Pune and Hyderabad. In an interview with Forbes India, Manabu Yamazaki, president and CEO of Canon India, speaks about the effects of emerging OTT platforms, growing demand from content creators, and catering to it all despite the logistical challenges of the pandemic. Edited excerpts:
Q. When you joined Canon India a year ago, we were in the middle of the pandemic. How has the journey been through that year?
Like everyone else, it was a very rough period. We had a lot of cases within our organisation, as well as among our partners. We were observing how we can help these things. We had worked very hard to sustain the health and safety of our colleagues during that period. At the same time, to stay functional as an organisation, we implemented a lot of IT upgrades. We were able to stay functional even after our office was closed for several months. We were able to sustain our relationship with our partners and our end customers. So overall, I think the performance as a company was more than our expectation as a whole year last year. We were able to turn out the positive growth against the previous year, a lot more than last year.