Kodak Projects Sales Will Start to Rise in 2013; Patent Bidding Continues

Eastman Kodak Co. has been shrinking for years. But the struggling Rochester icon is looking to 2013 to finally reverse that trend and become, once again, a growing company. The printing and imaging company on Monday filed a post-bankruptcy business plan and financial projections that show top-line revenue dropping to a low point this year and then growing in 2013 and thereafter.

As the company filed the business turnaround plan, it also announced an extension of the deadline for naming a winning bidder in the auction of 1,100 digital imaging patents.

Kodak had been working under a 5 p.m. Monday deadline