• Annual revenue (2007): $60.3 Billion
    • Year Established: 1939
    • Industry: Consumer Electronics
    • Phone: +81-3-3457-4511
    • Fax: +81-3-3456-1631
    • HQ: Tokyo, Japan
    • Chairman: Tadashi Okamura
    • President: Atsutoshi Nishida
    • Staff: 191,000
    • Slogan: "Leading innovation"

  • The Toshiba Corporation is a Tokyo, Japan-based multinational conglomerate manufacturing company. Its main sources of revenue are consumer electronics, computer technologies, and semiconductors. Toshiba also produces consumer appliances, personal and professional computers, industrial machinery, electronic components, telecommunications, and medical equipment. Toshiba has been a leader in innovation for Japan, having developed many of its first technological advances, including radar, microwave oven, the MRI, laptops, and HD-DVD.

    Toshiba is in negotiations to make a strategic deal with SanDisk, which would protect SanDisk from a hostile takeover by Samsung and boost Toshiba's market share.VentureBeat: Updated: SanDisk may escape Samsung hostile takeover through a deal with Toshiba

  • Key Dates

    1. 1875: Tanaka Seizosho was founded
    2. 1890: Hakunetsusha was founded
    3. 1939: Tanaka Seizosho & Hakunetsusha merge to form Toshiba
    4. 1942: Develops Japans first radar system
    5. 1982: Develops Japan's first Laptop
    6. 2006: Toshiba acquires Westinghouse

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