Epson
| Seiko Epson Corporation
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| legal form |
kabushiki-gaisha (joint stock company) |
| ISIN | JP3414750004 |
| founding | May 18, 1942 |
| Seat | Suwa , Nagano , Japan |
| management | Minoru Usui |
| Number of employees | 72,420 (March 31, 2017) |
| sales | 1.025 trillion Yen (2017) |
| Branch | electronics |
| Website | global.epson.com |
The Seiko Epson KK ( Jap. セイコーエプソン株式会社, Seiko Epuson Kabushiki-gaisha , Eng. Seiko Epson Corporation ) is a Japanese company that the world's largest manufacturers of printers , scanners , digital cameras , integrated circuits , projectors , cash registers , Industrial robots and LCD components count.
The Epson Group
Epson is an image processing technology company. The product range extends from printers and LCD projectors to sensors and other micro-components. Products for large format, cash register, label and ticket printing, as well as robot systems for assembly and handling are manufactured for trade and industry. The Epson Group is managed by the Japanese Seiko Epson Corporation and employs more than 72,000 people in 88 subsidiaries worldwide. Epson achieved total sales of 9.1 billion US dollars in the 2016/2017 fiscal year .
Epson Deutschland GmbH was founded in 1979 as a subsidiary of the Japanese Seiko Epson Corporation. The company, based in Meerbusch , North Rhine-Westphalia , employs over 200 people and looks after the sales areas of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Epson also operates an Industry Solutions Center in Meerbusch, where office and industrial applications are presented in action.
history
Today's Seiko Epson Corporation was created through the merger of two companies:
Suwa Seikosha
The Daiwa Kogyo Ltd. was founded on May 18, 1942. This joined in December 1959 with the outsourced Suwa plant of Daini Seikosha Co., Ltd. (now Seiko Instruments ) to Suwa Seikosha Co., Ltd. together.
Shinshu Seiki (later: Epson Corporation)
In 1961 the company was named Shinshu Seiki Co. founded. The business objective was the manufacture of parts for precision watches for Suwa Seikōsha Co. Ltd.
Suwa Seikosha made the watches for the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. This required printers for the results. This was the beginning of the production of printers by the Shinshu Seiki Co.
In September 1968, the company manufactured the world's first miniature printer, the EP-101 . It was soon built into many desktop computers . In June 1975 the successor to the EP-101 was presented as the "Son of EP-101" (son of EP-101). The “Epson” brand soon developed from this name. In April 1975, the US subsidiary Epson America, Inc. was founded, followed four years later by the German Epson Deutschland GmbH .
In June 1978 the 8-wire TX-80 printer came onto the market. It was mainly used for Commodore PET computers. Two years later came the successor model, the MX-80 , which quickly became the best-selling printer in the USA. The LX series was based on this model as a 9-pin printer, which came onto the market in 1984.
In July 1982 the company was officially renamed the Epson Corporation . That same year, Epson introduced the world's first mobile computer, the HC-20 ( HX-20 ). The PX-4 and PX-8 models followed and finally the PX-16, which could also be equipped with a touch key panel . The QX-10 and QX-16 were offered as desktop devices .
In May 1983 the first LCD color television was presented. Further innovations in 1984 were the first color dot matrix printer ( JX-80 ) and the first DIN A3 inkjet printer ( SQ-2000 ).
fusion
In November 1985, Suwa Seikosha Co., Ltd. merged. and Epson Corporation to Seiko Epson Corporation .
In 1988 the first 48-pin printer ( TLQ-4800 ) was introduced. In 1990 the European headquarters were opened in Amsterdam . In 1994 the first color inkjet printer with a resolution of 720 dpi ( Epson Stylus Color ) appeared. Numerous innovations in photo printer technology followed.
In June 2003 the company went public on the Tokyo Stock Exchange .
In 2004 the first digital rangefinder camera ( EPSON R-D1 ) and the first mobile photo printer ( EPSON PictureMate ) were introduced.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Worldwide company website
- ↑ Figures 2017 (PDF)
- ↑ This figure was based on the template: Inflation determined, has been rounded to a full 100 EUR and relates to the previous January.
- ↑ EP-101 . Epson. Archived from the original on September 29, 2011. Retrieved July 10, 2017.
- ↑ Epson Stylus Color - The world's first 720 dpi color inkjet printer . Epson. Retrieved July 10, 2017.