Hoya Corporation
Electronic components | |
Revenue | JP¥ 490 billion (FY 2014)
( US$ 4.1 billion) (FY 2014) |
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JP¥ 92.8 billion (FY 2014) (US$ 777 million) (FY 2014) | |
Number of employees | 34,635 (as of March 31, 2015) |
Website | Official website |
Footnotes / references [1][2][3] |
Hoya Corporation (Hoya株式会社, Hōya Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese company manufacturing
History of Hoya-Pentax merger
Hoya discussed a merger with Pentax into Hoya Pentax HD Corporation during 2007. Hoya's primary goal was to strengthen its medical-related business by taking advantage of Pentax's technologies and expertise in the field of endoscopes, intraocular lenses, surgical loupes, biocompatible ceramics, etc. It was speculated that Pentax's camera business could be sold off after the merger. The merger was initially intended to be completed by October 1, 2007.[8] However, Pentax management decided to not pursue the originally planned share swap, and other options for a merger were discussed.[9] On May 25, the Pentax board of directors accepted Hoya's offer for a merger.[10] On August 6, 2007, Hoya completed a friendly takeover bid for Pentax and acquired 90.59% of the company.[11] On October 29, 2007, Hoya and Pentax announced that Pentax, as the company ceasing to exist, will merge with and into Hoya on March 31, 2008.[12]
The acquired Pentax surveying instrument business (later IT Asahi Co., Ltd.) and camera business (now Pentax Ricoh Imaging Co., Ltd.) were sold to Taiwan Instrument Co., Ltd. in 2009 and Ricoh Co., Ltd. in 2011, respectively.
ReadSpeaker
On July 13, 2017, it was announced that Hoya had acquired ReadSpeaker. ReadSpeaker was founded in 1999 and headquartered in
See also
References
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- ^ "Company Snapshot". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved September 24, 2015.
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- ^ "Home". Hoyalux iD. Retrieved August 10, 2014.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Hoya Photonics, Inc™". Hoyaphotonicsinc.com. Archived from the original on September 13, 2017. Retrieved August 10, 2014.
- ^ "Company Profile". Forbes. Archived from the original on May 6, 2011. Retrieved September 24, 2015.
- Penton Media. June 7, 2013. Retrieved August 10, 2014.
- ^ "Hoya and Pentax to merge". Digital Photography Review. December 21, 2006. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
- ^ "Hoya株式会社" (PDF). Hoya Corp. Retrieved May 16, 2015.
- ^ "Pentax finally accept Hoya offer". Digital Photography Review. May 25, 2007. Retrieved September 24, 2015.
- ^ "Notice Regarding the Results of the Tender Offer for the Shares of PENTAX Corporation and Change of Subsidiary" (PDF). Hoya Corp. August 7, 2007. Retrieved August 7, 2007.
- ^ "Public Notice of Execution of Merger Agreement" (PDF). Hoya Corp. & PENTAX Corp. October 29, 2007. Retrieved October 31, 2007.
- ^ Lindemann, Roy (July 13, 2017). "HOYA's Memory Disk Division Acquires ReadSpeaker" (Press release). ReadSpeaker. Archived from the original on May 16, 2020. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
- ^ Squires, Robert I. (2018). Universal Design for Learning in Online Credit Recovery: Do Course Features Impact Achievement? (EdD dissertation). University of Montana. Archived from the original on April 25, 2020. Retrieved April 25, 2020.
- ^ Nicholson, Chris (October 11, 2006). "Talk to me, e-mail: Messages that can be heard - Technology - International Herald Tribune". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 16, 2020. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
- ISSN 2194-5357. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
External links
- Official website
- "Company history books (Shashi)". Shashi Interest Group. April 2016. Wiki collection of bibliographic works on Hoya Corporation