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Taiyo Yuden

Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd.
太陽誘電株式会社
Public KK
Traded as :
Nikkei 225 Component
Industry Electronics
Semiconductors
Founded Tokyo, Japan (March 23, 1950 (1950-03-23))
Founder Hikohachi Sato
Headquarters 6-16-20, Ueno, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-0005, Japan
Key people
Shoichi Tosaka, (CEO and President)
Products
Revenue

Increase $ 2.052 billion USD (FY 2012)

(¥ 192.90 billion JPY) (FY 2012)

Increase $ 21.28 million USD (FY 2012)

(¥ 2.0 billion JPY) (FY 2012)
Number of employees
15,915 (consolidated)
2,632 (non-consolidated) (as of March 31, 2013)
Subsidiaries
Website Official website
Footnotes / references

Increase $ 2.052 billion USD (FY 2012)

Increase $ 21.28 million USD (FY 2012)

Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd. (太陽誘電株式会社 Taiyō Yūden Kabushiki-gaisha?, translated as Sun Dielectric Co., Ltd.) is a Japanese materials and electronics company, situated in Ueno, Taito, Tokyo, that helped pioneer recordable CD technology (CD-R) along with Sony and Philips in 1988. Founded 60 years ago, Taiyo Yuden currently operates factories in Japan, Singapore, Korea, China, the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Thailand.

They were well known for their recordable optical media, and were regarded by many to be the very best in the industry.


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