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HISTORY

Hitachi was founded in 1910 as an electrical repair shop.

From the 1960s through to the 1980s, Hitachi had made consumer audio equipment such as portable radios and cassette recorders. They had established themselves as a value-priced brand of such equipment, but due to such equipment emanating from South Korea in significant quantities, their consumer-electronics focus had been on domestic video equipment. At the moment, there are fewer models of consumer-audio equipment under this brand. Hitachi is also an important manufacturer of hard drives used in note book computers.


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NEWS

02/06/2006
A Hitachi Ltd. research institute said it has developed the world's smallest integrated circuit (IC) chip, which will give consumers more information about products and prevent counterfeits of bank notes. (Asahi Shimbun)


CULTURE

Hitachi's current Slogan is "Inspire the next."


MEMBERSHIP IN ORGANIZATIONS

Hitachi is a member of The Open Group .


INVESTOR RELATIONS

The stock is traded on the following exchanges:

Luxembourg, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Paris, New York (HIT), Tokyo (6501), Osaka , Nagoya , Fukuoka and Sapporo stock exchanges


Shareholders

(Data as of February 2006)


Holdings



EXTERNAL LINKS

  • Company website (Global)

  • [http://www.hitachi.us/ North America Portal]

  • [http://www.hitachi-eu.com/ European Portal]

  • [http://www.hitachi.cn/ China Portal]

  • [http://www.hitachi.sg/ Southeast Asia Portal]