Casio
| Casio Computer Co., Ltd.
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| legal form |
Kabushiki-gaisha (joint stock company) |
| ISIN | JP3209000003 |
| founding | June 1, 1957 |
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Tokyo - Shibuya Japan
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| management | Kazuhiro Kashio ( President and CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 12,298 |
| sales | 321.2 billion yen (2017) |
| Branch | Electronics , calculator |
| Website | www.casio-europe.com/de/ |
| Status: 2018 | |
Casio ( Japanese カ シ オ 計算機 株式会社 Kashio Keisanki Kabushiki-gaisha , English Casio Computer Co., Ltd. ) is a Japanese electronics company based in Tokyo - Shibuya . Casio produces, among other things, digital watches and is the world market leader in pocket calculators .
Company founded in 1946
In 1946 Tadao Kashio (1917–1993) founded the then small electronics company Kashio Seisakujo ( 樫 尾 製作 所 , German "Kashio-Werk") in the Shibuya district of Tokyo .
In order to be able to sell products outside of Japan, today's Casio Computer Co., Ltd. was established in 1957. With his three brothers Toshio (1925–2012), Kazuo (1929–2018) and Yukio (* 1930), Tadao Kashio from the small electronics company Kashio Seisakujo established the world-famous electronics group Casio . Each brother brought their unique specialty and strengths with them: Tadao in finance, Toshio in development, Kazuo in sales and Yukio in production. In 1957, the series production of calculating machines began . From 1965 the first electronic desktop calculators with memory were produced. In 1974 Casio launched its first digital wristwatch , the Casiotron . In 1984 the first Casio synthesizer was marketed, the CZ-101. Digital cameras have been sold since 1995 . In 1996 the company presented its first PDA with Microsoft Windows CE under the name Casio Cassiopeia .
Products
Clocks
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Casio was one of the first manufacturers of digital wristwatches and is known for building many functions into small wristwatches ( e.g. stopwatch , digital compass, altimeter and air pressure meter, thermometer, GPS , digital camera , remote control ). Casio has also been offering radio- controlled clocks and classically designed analog clocks worldwide since 2000 . In 2017, Casio announced in a press release that the one hundred millionth G-Shock wristwatch had been produced in August 2017. The company sees itself as the market leader for outdoor watches.
Models
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Scientific calculator
- Development of Casio pocket calculators over 40 years
Casio fx-201P (1976)
Casio fx-2500 (ca.1980)
An early programmable calculator was the FX-201P, which was produced in 1976. Jump commands, loops and subroutines could be programmed. 1 / x and the root were calculated to 10, the other functions to 8 digits. Current scientific pocket calculators from Casio support spreadsheets, numerical solving of equations, prime factorization, matrix calculations and offer the possibility of further processing results online via QR code .
Further products
Casio produces electronic dictionaries, label printers, electronic musical instruments, handheld terminals, cash registers, management support systems, data projectors, molded parts and molds, among other things.
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Digital cameras
Data and video projectors
PDA / databases
Electronic dictionaries
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System products
Labeling systems
Musical instruments
TV receivers
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Video game consoles
- Product examples
Pocket PC Casio Cassiopeia E-125
KL-60 label printer
Mobile television TV-800
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://world.casio.com/corporate/president/
- ↑ a b Corporate | CASIO. Accessed May 10, 2018 .
- ^ The Four Kashio Brothers | Corporate | CASIO. Retrieved July 12, 2019 .
- ↑ History | Corporate | CASIO. Retrieved July 12, 2019 .
- ↑ News | CASIO. Retrieved July 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Homepage casio-vintage. CASIO, accessed November 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Notes on the Casio fx-201P (Japanese), 60 pages
- ↑ Operating instructions for the fx-991DEX (PDF; 930 kB)
- ↑ Company Data | Corporate | CASIO. Retrieved July 12, 2019 .
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