Hitachi Maxell, Ltd. and Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd. announced that Hitachi Consumer Electronics’ LCD projector business will be transferred to Hitachi Maxell by the end of June 2013. https:
Hitachi Maxell, Ltd. and Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co.,
Ltd. today announced that Hitachi Consumer Electronics’ LCD projector business
will be transferred to Hitachi Maxell by the end of June 2013. Hitachi Maxell
plans to capture synergies with its optical business in terms of technologies
and sales and marketing to strengthen and generate higher profits in this
business.
1.
Objective of the Business Transfer
Hitachi Maxell has developed its businesses for corporations
and consumers leveraging its proprietary brand and worldwide sales network.
Within those businesses, the optical business is one of the fields in which
Hitachi Maxell is strengthening. With various optical-related technologies, including
optical design and molding, Hitachi Maxell is expanding sales of compact,
high-precision camera lens units for smartphones, digital single lens reflex
(SLR) cameras and automobiles, while also expanding business in new fields.
Hitachi Consumer Electronics, meanwhile, boasts LCD projectors that achieve
high brightness and high resolution thanks to advanced electronics technologies
grounded on image, optics and transfer technologies amassed to date. These
projectors are also outstanding in terms of their ultra-short image throwing
capabilities. Hitachi Consumer Electronics has an impressive sales track record
in these projectors to the education and corporate sectors in world markets.
This transfer is aimed at strengthening and generating
higher profits under the “HITACHI brand” in this business by capturing
synergies in terms of technologies and sales channels in this business and
Hitachi Maxell’s optical business. It is also intended to create products and
services in new business fields.
Along with the business transfer announced today, plans call
for two companies to become subsidiaries of Hitachi Maxell. One is Hitachi Joei
Tech Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Hitachi Consumer Electronics that designs and
manufactures molds for optical and other components and manufactures and
assembles printed circuit boards. Hitachi Digital Products China Co., Ltd., a
company in which Hitachi (China) Co., Ltd. and Hitachi Consumer Electronics are
shareholders will also be become a subsidiary of Hitachi Maxell. Both Hitachi
Maxell and Hitachi Consumer Electronics will discuss the details of the
business transfer and method for converting the aforementioned companies into
Hitachi Maxell subsidiaries going forward.
2. Overview
of the Companies Involved
Overview of Hitachi Maxell
(1) Company: Hitachi Maxell, Ltd.
(2) Head Office: 2-18-2 Iidabashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
(3) Representative: Yoshihiro Senzai, President and CEO
(4) Business: Manufacturing and sales of functional
materials, batteries, devices, optical components and electronic appliances
(5) Established: September 3, 1960
(6) Consolidated net sales: 119,463 million yen (Year ended
March 31, 2012) (Note)
(7) Paid-in Capital: 12,203 million yen (Hitachi, Ltd.:
99.3%)
(8) No. of Employees: Non-consolidated: 2,458, consolidated:
3,821
(As of January 31, 2013)
(Note) This figure has not been audited by an accounting
auditor and does not include the former Hitachi Maxell Energy, Ltd.
(2) Head Office: 2-1, Otemachi 2-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
(3) Representative: Shutoku Watanabe, President &
Representative Director
(4) Business: Development, manufacture and sales of
commercial LCD projectors, video equipment, and energy management support
services.
(5) Established: July 1, 2009
(6) Consolidated net sales: 262,400 million yen (Year ended
March 31, 2012)
(7) Paid-in Capital: 1,000 million yen (Hitachi, Ltd.: 100%)
(8) No. of Employees: approx. 600 (As of December 31, 2012)
Overview of Hitachi
Joei Tech
(1) Company: Hitachi Joei Tech Co., Ltd.
(2) Head Office: 292, Yoshida-cho, Totsuka-ku, Kanagawa,
Japan
(3) Representative: Kenichi Yoshitake, President
(4) Business: Design and manufacture of molds for
automotive, optical and other components, manufacture of plastic molds,
manufacture and assembly of precision surface mounting substrates, and repair
and sales of video equipment, etc.
(5) Established: June 28, 1975
(6) Consolidated net sales: 9,952 million yen (Year ended
March 31, 2012)
(7) Paid-in Capital: 65 million yen (Hitachi Consumer
Electronics Co., Ltd.: 50.8%)
(8) No. of Employees: approx. 400 (As of December 31, 2012)
Overview of Hitachi
Digital Products China
(1) Company: Hitachi Digital Products China Co., Ltd.
(2) Head Office: No. 98, Dongshan Road, Gushan Dist.,
Fuzhou, Fujian, China
(3) Representative: Masaharu Deguchi, Direcotor and
President
(4) Business: Manufacture and sale of commercial LCD
projectors, optical-related products, etc.
(5) Established: June 15, 2001
(6) Consolidated net sales: 1,350 million yuan (Year ended
December 31, 2012)
