NEC Research Institute
Orchestrating a brighter world
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The NEC Supertower in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, the headquarters of NEC
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| Traded as | : OSE: 6701 : 6701 : 6701 Sapporo SE: 6701 |
| Industry | Information technology Electronics |
| Founded | July 17, 1899 Tokyo, Japan |
| Headquarters | 5-7-2, Shiba, Minato, Tokyo, Japan |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Nobuhiro Endo (Chairman) Takashi Niino (President) |
| Products | Telecommunications equipment, Servers, Consumer electronics, Domestic appliances, Lighting |
| Revenue |
 ¥3.0716 trillion (2013) |
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¥114.647 billion (2013) |
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¥30.434 billion (2013) |
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| Total assets |
¥2.581 trillion (2013) |
| Total equity |
¥700.429 billion (2013) |
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Number of employees
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102,375 (2013) |
| Subsidiaries | NEC Corporation of America |
| Website | NEC.com |
10 April 2012
NEC Corporation (日本電気株式会社 Nippon Denki Kabushiki Gaisha) is a Japanese multinational provider of information technology (IT) services and products, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. It provides IT and network solutions to business enterprises, communications services providers and to government agencies, and has also been the biggest PC vendor in Japan since the 1980s. The company was known as the Nippon Electric Company, Limited, before rebranding in 1983 as just NEC. Its NEC Semiconductors business unit was one of the worldwide top 20 semiconductor sales leaders before merging with Renesas Electronics. NEC is a member of the Sumitomo Group.
Kunihiko Iwadare and Takeshiro Maeda established Nippon Electric Limited Partnership on August 31, 1898 by using facilities that they had bought from Miyoshi Electrical Manufacturing Company. Iwadare acted as the representative partner; Maeda handled company sales. Western Electric, which had an interest in the Japanese phone market, was represented by Walter Tenney Carleton. Carleton was also responsible for the renovation of the Miyoshi facilities. It was agreed that the partnership would be reorganized as a joint-stock company when treaty would allow it. On July 17, 1899, the revised treaty between Japan and the United States went into effect. Nippon Electric Company, Limited was organized the same day with Western Electric Company to become the first Japanese joint-venture with foreign capital. Iwadare was named managing director. Ernest Clement and Carleton were named as directors. Maeda and Mototeru Fujii were assigned to be auditors. Iwadare, Maeda and Carleton handled the overall management.
The company started with the production, sales and maintenance of telephones and switches. NEC modernized the production facilities with the construction of the Mita Plant in 1901 at Mita Shikokumachi. It was completed in December 1902.
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