BHATT: "Detail about Sharp Company"

Saturday, May 5, 2012

"Detail about Sharp Company"

Corporate Name

Sharp Corporation

head Office

22-22 Nagaike-cho, Abeno-ku, Osaka 545-8522, Japan

Tel. 81-6-6621-122

Management Representatives

Mikio Katayama, Director, Chairman

Takashi Okuda, President

Business ActivitiesConsumer/information products (audio-visual and communication equipment, health and environmental equipment, information equipment)

Electronic components (LCDs, solar cells, other electronic devices)

Founding

Founder, Tokuji Hayakawa, was awarded a patent for the "Tokubijo" snap buckle (he was 18 years old at the time). On September 15, 1912, he established a small metalworking shop in Matsui-cho, Honjo, Tokyo.

Origin of Company Name

Mr. Hayakawa continued to research and improve the techniques for making metal writing instruments, and in 1915, he invented a mechanical pencil that, after further improvements, would take the world by storm. In 1916, Mr. Hayakawa's mechanical pencil was named the "Ever-Ready Sharp Pencil." The present name of the company and its trademark are derived from that product.

Incorporation

In May 1935, the structure of the company was modified to become a joint-stock corporation under the name Hayakawa Metal Works Institute Co. (capitalization: 300,000 yen.)

Capital Stock

204,675 million yen

Note: Any fractional sum of less than a million yen shall be discarded.

(as of March 31, 2011)

Sales

[ Fiscal 2010 Financial Results ]

· 3,021,973 million yen (consolidated)

· 2,431,217 million yen (unconsolidated)

Employees

· Sharp Corporation: 21,500

· Consolidated: 56,800

· Entire Sharp Group: 64,400 (30,900 in Japan and 33,500 overseas) (as of March 31, 2012)

History

Sharp Electronics Benelux bv is gevestigd in Houten en is een dochteronderneming van het wereldwijd opererende Sharp Corporation.

Sharp Corporation werd in 1912 opgericht door Tokuji Hayakawa en dankt haar naam aan een van de eerste uitvindingen: de Ever Sharp pencil uit 1915. Sharp heeft haar creatieve geest voortgezet met de ontwikkeling van technologisch innovatieve producten om het leven te veraangenamen, comfort te bieden, perspectief te verbreden en productiviteit te verhogen.

Sharp streeft er naar om producten te ontwikkelen die het leven zowel op kantoor als thuis veraangenamen. Het assortiment van Sharp valt onder te verdelen in business- en consumentenelektronica, een tweedeling die steeds vaker in elkaar overloopt, omdat de diverse productgroepen geschikt zijn voor beide kanalen.