Acquisitions bring Canon's 5 trln-yen sales target back into view

By Eric Auchard PARIS (Reuters) - Canon Inc, the world's biggest maker of cameras and printers, is setting its sights on higher growth fueled by acquisitions as it expands into related markets like video surveillance and medical imaging, Chairman Fujio Mitarai said. As a result the Japanese group has revived a decade-old annual-sales target of 5 trillion yen ($42 billion) and is also aiming to improve its profit margins, despite declining consumer sales. New business markets include video survei