Canon (company)
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Native name
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キヤノン株式会社 |
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| Traded as | : : CAJ |
| Industry | Electronics |
| Founded | August 10, 1937 (as Seikikōgaku kenkyūsho (Jpn. 精機光學研究所, Precision Optical Industry Co. Ltd.) Tokyo, Japan |
| Founder |
Takeshi Mitarai Goro Yoshida Saburo Uchida Takeo Maeda |
| Headquarters | Ōta, Tokyo, Japan |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Fujio Mitarai (Chairman & CEO) |
| Products | SLR cameras, still cameras, , digital cameras, camcorders, printers, scanners, lenses, LCDs, ophthalmic instruments, magnetic heads, micro motors and other office supplies |
| Revenue | ¥3.800 trillion (2015) |
| ¥355.21 billion (2015) | |
| Profit | ¥220.20 billion (2015) |
| Total assets | ¥4.427 trillion (2015) |
| Total equity | ¥2.966 trillion (2015) |
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Number of employees
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191,889 (2015) |
| Divisions | Office Business Unit, Consumer Business Unit, Industry and Others Business Unit |
| Subsidiaries | Océ |
| Website | global |
Canon Inc. ( Kyanon Kabushiki-gaisha?) is a Japanese multinational corporation specialized in the manufacture of imaging and optical products, including cameras, camcorders, , steppers, computer printers and medical equipment. It is headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan.
Canon has a primary listing on the and is a constituent of the TOPIX index. It has a secondary listing on the . At the beginning of 2015, Canon was the tenth largest public company in Japan when measured by market capitalization.
The company was originally named Seikikōgaku kenkyūsho (jpn. 精機光学研究所, Precision Optical Industry Co. Ltd.). In 1934 it produced the Kwanon, a prototype for Japan’s first-ever 35 mm camera with a focal plane based shutter. In 1947 the company name was changed to Canon Camera Co., Inc., shortened to Canon Inc. in 1969. The name Canon comes from Buddhist bodhisattva Guan Yin (観音, Kannon in Japanese), previously transliterated as Kuanyin, Kwannon, or Kwanon in English.
The origins of Canon date back to the founding of Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory in Japan in 1937 by Takeshi Mitarai, Goro Yoshida, Saburo Uchida and Takeo Maeda. During its early years the company did not have any facilities to produce its own optical glass, and its first cameras incorporated Nikkor lenses from Nippon Kogaku K.K. (the later Nikon Corporation).
Between 1933 and 1936 ‘The Kwanon’, a copy of the Leica design, Japan’s first 35 mm focal plane-shutter camera, was developed in prototype form. In 1940 Canon developed Japan's first indirect X-ray camera. Canon introduced a field zoom lens for television broadcasting in 1958 and in 1959 introduced the Reflex Zoom 8, the world’s first movie camera with a zoom lens, and the Canonflex.
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