Public KK | |
Traded as | : Nikkei 225 Component |
Industry |
Electronics Semiconductors |
Founded | Tokyo, Japan (March 23, 1950 ) |
Founder | Hikohachi Sato |
Headquarters | 6-16-20, Ueno, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-0005, Japan |
Key people
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Shoichi Tosaka, (CEO and President) |
Products |
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Revenue | (¥ 192.90 billion JPY) (FY 2012) |
(¥ 2.0 billion JPY) (FY 2012) | |
Number of employees
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15,915 (consolidated) 2,632 (non-consolidated) (as of March 31, 2013) |
Subsidiaries |
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Website | Official website |
Footnotes / references |
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.