Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi (Japanese: 日立製作所) is a global company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Hitachi is a member of The Open Group.
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History
Hitachi was founded in 1910 as an electrical repair shop.
From the 1960s through to the 1980s, Hitachi had made consumer audio equipment such as portable radios and cassette recorders. They had established themselves as a value-priced brand of such equipment, but due to such equipment emanating from South Korea in significant quantities, their consumer-electronics focus had been on domestic video equipment. At the moment, there are fewer models of consumer-audio equipment under this brand.
Products
- Air conditioners
- Batteries
- Camcorders
- Computer displays
- Digital Storage
- Heavy equipment (Euclid-Hitachi Heavy Equipment Inc.)
- High definition televisions (HDTV)
- Mobile phones
- Digital audio players
- Televisions
- Appliances (under a subsidiary Hitachi Hometec, manufacturer of mainly micom rice cookers and vacuum pots)
- Power Tools
- Financing/Credit (Hitachi Capital America)
As well as consumer products, Hitachi provides products for other manufactures such as integrated circuits and other semiconductors.
Culture
Hitachi's current slogan is "Inspire the néxt."
Investor Relations
The stock is straded on the following exchanges:
Luxembourg, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Paris, New York (HIT), Tokyo (6501), Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka and Sapporo stock exchanges
Shareholders
(Data as of February 2005)
- NATS CUMCO 6.18%
- The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Ltd. 5.82%
- Japan Trustee Services Bank, Ltd. 5.55%
- State Street Bank and Trust Company 4.53%
- The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A. London 4.47%
- Nippon Life Insurance Company 3.05%
- Hitachi Employees Shareholding Association 2.61%
- The Dai-Ichi Mutual Life Insurance Company 2.44%
- Hitachi, Ltd. (Treasury Stock) 2.08%
- Trust & Custody Services Bank, Ltd. 1.83%
Holdings
External links
- Company website (Global)