Leica clocks up record sales ahead of new partnership with Huawei

(FILES) This file photo taken on October 24, 2011 shows Andreas Kaufmann, owner of German camera manufacturer Leica Camera AG, posing for a photo at the production facility in Solms, western Germany, on October 24, 2011. German manufacturer Leica announced a jump in sales for 2015 ahead of the start of their partnership with Chinese tech company Huawei, in a bid to improve Huawei's premium smartphone selection. / AFP PHOTO / DANIEL ROLAND

FRANKFURT: Leica, the top-of-the-range camera maker, clocked up record sales last year, its chief revealed in a newspaper interview on April 5 ahead of the expected unveiling of a new smartphone built in collaboration with China’s Huawei group. 

“We are pleased to announce that we booked record sales of more than €365mil (RM1.62bil),” chief executive Oliver Kaltner told the business daily Handelsblatt in an interview.