Eizo

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Eizo Nanao Corporation
株式会社ナナオ

Type	Public
Founded	March 1968
Headquarters	Hakusan, Ishikawa, Japan
Key people	Yoshitaka Jitsumori: President and CEO
Industry	Computer
Products	Computer display
Revenue	▲ $741 million USD (2006)[1]
Employees	1,389 (as of March 31, 2008)[2]
Subsidiaries	Irem
Website	www.eizo.com

Eizo Nanao Corporation (株式会社ナナオ, Kabushiki-gaisha Nanao^?) (TYO: 6737), or EIZO, is a manufacturer of computer displays. A Japanese corporation, it was founded in March 1968 but did not adopt its current name until 1999 when Nanao Corporation and Eizo merged. Their products are targeted towards professional users and industry. They own Irem Software Engineering, a videogame developer.^{[citation needed]}

The name Eizo is a reference to the Japanese word meaning "image", 映像, eizō in romaji.

[edit] History

The company founded was Hakui Electronic Corporation in Hakui, Ishikawa, Japan in 1968 and initially manufactured televisions. In March 1978 it became Nanao Corporation. In 1976 it began manufacture of industrial monitors and in 1981 started making PC monitors. The company had become known in the mid 1980s to be a very successful manufacturer of CRT based computer monitors.^{[citation needed]}

Eizo was launched as a brand for Europe in 1985 after the company had founded Hitec Associates Ltd. as a sales subsidiary for the European market, and the company in the same period founded offices in the US to launch products the Nanao brand.

In January 1990 Hitec Associates Ltd was renamed Eizo Corporation. Nine years later the company merged Nanao Corporation and Eizo Corporation to form the current company^[3].

[edit] Products

• LCD Monitors
• Graphics Monitors
• Touch Panel Monitors
• Medical Display Systems
• Windows-based Terminals
• Accessories

[edit] References and footnotes

[edit] External links

• Official Website

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