is a Japanese company headquartered in
Tokyo
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. It was established in 1964, and its main business is in
lighting equipment
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History
Ushio, Inc., was established in 1964 from the electric lighting department of Ushio Industrial, Inc., which had grown in 1916 as
Himeji
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Electric Bulb Company, out of a department of
Chūgoku Gōdō Denki, owned jointly by the predecessor companies of
Kansai Electric Power and
Chūgoku Electric Power. Ushio moved its headquarters from
Himeji, Hyōgo Prefecture, to
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and List of cities in Japan, largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, ...
in 1971, while retaining its main research & development center in Himeji.
Ushio, Inc. is headed by its Chairman Jirō Ushio (
牛尾治朗, 1931- ), who was the chairman of the influential
Japan Association of Corporate Executives between 1995 and 1999, and was the president of Japan Productivity Center (
日本生産性本部) between 2003 and 2014. Ushio Industrial, Inc., was named after his father, Kenji Ushio (
牛尾健治, 1898-1958), a native of Himeji like his son.
Ushio was listed in the
Second Section of Tokyo Stock Exchange in 1970, and in the First Section in 1980.
Ushio entered the European market in 1985, with the foundation of
Ushio Europe B.V., which is located in
Oude Meer,
the Netherlands
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Business
Ushio's main business is in
lighting equipment
Lighting or illumination is the deliberate use of light to achieve practical or aesthetic effects. Lighting includes the use of both artificial light sources like lamps and light fixtures, as well as natural illumination by capturing daylig ...
, from
halogen lamps
A halogen lamp (also called tungsten halogen, quartz-halogen, and quartz iodine lamp) is an incandescent lamp consisting of a tungsten filament sealed in a compact transparent envelope that is filled with a mixture of an inert gas and a smal ...
to more sophisticated digital lighting and video processing equipment. In 1992, Ushio bought the
Christie group of companies in U.S, a company known for their digital cinema projectors.
Subsidiaries
* Ushio Lighting,
Chuo-ku, Tokyo,
Japan
* Xebex, Inc.,
Chuo-ku, Tokyo
* Maxray, Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
* ADTEC Engineering, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
*
Christie Digital Systems,
Cypress, California,
United States
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, and
Kitchener, Ontario
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* Christie Medical Holdings, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
* Ushio Europe (company), Ushio Europe B.V.,
Oude Meer,
the Netherlands
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* Ushio Germany GmbH, Steinhöring, Germany
* Ushio France S.A.R.L. Paris, France
* Ushio Poland Sp.z o.o. Błonie, Poland
* Ushio Korea Inc, Gangnam Daero Seocho-Gu, Seoul Korea
See also
*Lighting equipment
References
External links
Global Home of UshioUshio, Inc.(in Japanese)
Ushio Korea Inc.(in Korean)
Ushio America, Inc.Ushio Europe B.V.Ushio Europe B.V.(in German)
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Electronics companies of Japan
Manufacturing companies based in Tokyo
Companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
Lighting brands
Electronics companies established in 1964
Japanese companies established in 1964
Japanese brands