Hitachi, Ltd.

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Hitachi Ltd. (日立製作所, Hitachi Seisakusho) (TYO: 6501), NYSE: HIT is a Japanese global company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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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 hard drives are considered among the best in the world.

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Products

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This Hitachi office building is in Chiyoda, Tokyo.

As well as consumer products, Hitachi provides products for other manufactures such as integrated circuits and other semiconductors.

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Culture

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

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Membership in organizations

Hitachi is a member of The Open Group.

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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

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Shareholders

(Data as of February 2005)


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Holdings

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External links

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