Toshiba
Toshiba Corporation (Japanese株式会社 东芝, Kabushiki - gaisha Toshiba), listed on the Nikkei 225, is an international technology provider headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The company is the seventh-largest manufacturer of electrical and electronic equipment worldwide.
History
Toshiba was created in 1939 from the merger of Tanaka hisashige 1875 gegründetem electrical engineering firm Shibaura Seisaku -sho (芝 浦 制作 所) and founded by Fujioka Ichisuke and Shoichi Miyoshi consumer goods manufacturers Tōkyō Denki (东京 电 気). The new company was called Tōkyō Shibaura Denki (东京 芝 浦 电 気), but was primarily known under the abbreviation Toshiba. In 1978 this became the official company name. Tō means East ( Tōkyō = eastern capital ) and shiba means lawn and derives from place names Shibaura.
The company expanded both through organic growth as well as acquisitions, including in the field of heavy industry in the 1940s and 1950s. Later important subsidiaries were established, such as Toshiba EMI (1960), Toshiba Electrical Equipment (1974 ), Toshiba Chemical ( 1974), Toshiba Lighting and Technology (1989) and Toshiba Carrier Corporation ( 1999).
On December 28, 1970 Toshiba began the construction of Unit 3 of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in which, after a power and cooling failure on 14 March 2011 an explosion occurred as a result of an earthquake and subsequent tsunamis.
On 6 February 2006, the company for 5.4 billion U.S. dollars bought the nuclear division of Westinghouse in the United States, since 1998 owned by British Nuclear Fuels plc. (BNFL ) was, and is now the world leader in the nuclear business.
Norio Sasaki told business leaders mid-April 2011, nuclear energy remains a strong alternative and is easy compared to other energy sources have the advantage. Even if you assume that hypothetically every 30 years an accident happens and you take the costs into consideration, caused by the escape of radioactivity, one must face the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions.
In fiscal year 2008/ 09 Toshiba Corporation had a turnover of 6654.51 billion yen, equivalent to about 51.7 billion euros. Group-wide, 199,000 people are employed (as at 31 March 2009).
Organizing the Group
The financial statements for 2007, 672 partially or fully consolidated subsidiaries of Toshiba Corporation worldwide.
The Group is divided into the following sections:
- Digital Products Group with the areas of mobile communications, digital media, personal computers / networks
- Electronic Devices & Components Group with the semiconductors and display devices
- Infrastructure Systems Group with the areas of energy, industrial systems and social infrastructure
In addition to the parent company, the following subsidiaries are listed:
- Nishishiba Electric Co. Ltd..
- Shibaura Mechatronics Corporation
- Topcon Corporation
- Toshiba Ceramics Co. Ltd..
- Toshiba Machine Co. Ltd..
- Toshiba Plant Systems & Services Corporation
- Toshiba TEC Corporation
Toshiba in Germany
Its European headquarters for the area of IT-/Consumer-/Bürokommunikation is Toshiba Europe GmbH (TEG ), headquartered in Neuss. In addition, the administration of the product areas computer systems, projectors, storage media (CD, DVD, hard drive ) and consumer electronics (DVD player, television ) is housed there. Semiconductor and electronic components are managed from Dusseldorf. In Brunswick there was a corresponding production plant for power semiconductors, which was closed in 2007. In Regensburg, there is the TRO (Toshiba Regensburg Operations ), formerly produced there notebooks in the upper price classes and components for PCs and since 1 January 2008 as a logistics center for the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa ) functions.
In Krefeld, Germany is the headquarters of TERIS (Toshiba Europe Retail Information Systems), the division for cash, ID and printing systems. TERIS formerly operated under the name as Toshiba TEC Europe or TEC ( Tokyo Electric Company).
Since the acquisition of Westinghouse Nuclear Toshiba is also the owner of Westinghouse Electric Germany GmbH in Mannheim.
Others
The Toshiba brand introduced in Belgian politics to the fixed term " Toshiba Boys". This name given the former adviser to the Minister for Institutional Reform, Jean- Luc Dehaene (CVP ), which, in the late 1980s based on the first Toshiba notebooks that they could take in the third Belgian state reform convenient to the negotiations between Flemish and Walloons complex financial simulations created and this worked out because the Special Law for the financing of the Communities and regions.