Toshiba

Toshiba Corporation listed on the Nikkei 225 is an international technology group (the seventh largest producer of electrical and electronic devices worldwide), headquartered in the Japanese capital Tokyo. Toshiba came in 1939 from the merger, founded in 1875 by Tanaka Hisashige electrical engineering firm Shibaura Seisaku-sho and founded by Ichisuke Fujioka and Shoichi Miyoshi consumer goods manufacturers Tōkyō Denki . The new company called Tokyo Shibaura Denki , but was mainly known under the abbreviation Toshiba. Only in 1978 this became the official company name. Tō means East (Tōkyō = eastern capital) and shiba means lawn and is derived from place names Shibaura.

The company expanded both through organic growth, as well as through acquisitions, including in the area of ​​heavy industry in the 1940s and 1950s. Later, major subsidiaries were founded, such as Toshiba EMI (1960), Toshiba Electrical Equipment (1974), Toshiba Chemical (1974), Toshiba Lighting & Technology (1989) and Toshiba Carrier Corporation (1999). Reactor block 3 (right) of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station on 16 March 2011. On 28 Toshiba will begin in December 1970 with the construction of Block 3 of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, the on after a power outage 14th and cooling Exploded in March 2011.

On 6 February 2006 the company bought for 5.4 billion U.S. dollars in the nuclear division of Westinghouse in the United States since 1998 owned by British Nuclear Fuels plc. (BNFL), was and is world market leader in the nuclear business. Norio Sasaki said business leaders in mid-April 2011, nuclear energy and remains a strong alternative to other energy sources is a slight advantage. Even if one assumed that hypothetical happens every 30 years, an accident and you take into account the costs caused by the leakage of radioactivity that must be compared with the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions. In fiscal year 2008/09, the Toshiba Corporation made a turnover of 6654.51 billion yen, or about 51.7 billion euros. Across the Group employed 199,000 employees (as of 31 March 2009).