Medical Device Company Intelligence Reports provide a full review of the company's activities, from its origins to its latest corporate activity, including mergers and acquisitions, agreements, divestitures, major purchasing contracts and litigation.
Medical Device Company Intelligence Reports provide a full review of the company's activities, from its origins to its latest corporate activity, including mergers and acquisitions, agreements, divestitures, major purchasing contracts and litigation. Sections are included on products, international activities and R&D, as well as a full, in-depth five year financial analysis. An introduction to each report and a full table of contents is provided for review. More than 60 Medical Device Company Intelligence Reports are currently available. Canon, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a global manufacturer of cameras, business machines and optical products, with subsidiaries in 184 countries and over 108,000 employees worldwide. Canon has manufacturing plants in Japan, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, the US, Mexico, France, Germany and the UK.
In fiscal 2004, Canon posted record earnings and marked its fifth consecutive year of sales growth, with revenue up by 8.4% to ¥3,467.9 billion (US$33.3 billion) and net income rising by 24.5% to ¥343.3 billion (US$3.3 billion). Canon has set itself the goal of achieving annual sales of ¥5 trillion by 2010.
Canon has three major product groups, Business Machines, Cameras and Optical & Other Products. The focus of this profile is Canon's medical equipment business which forms part of the company's Optical & Other Products group which also offers semiconductor production equipment, mirror projection mask aligners for LCD panels, broadcasting equipment and components. The division represents Canon's peripheral businesses, generating 9.1% of the company's total revenue in fiscal 2004.
In its medical business, Canon offers digital radiography systems and accessories and ophthalmic equipment, including fundus cameras, retinal documentation cameras, auto refractors and auto-alignment tonometers. The company claims to hold the leading market share for digital radiography systems and to be currently vying for the top share of the market for non-mydriatic fundus cameras. Canon also offered a range of picture archiving and communication systems but discontinued this product line at the end of 2003.
Medical Device Company Intelligence Reports provide a full review of the company's activities, from its origins to its latest corporate activity, including mergers and acquisitions, agreements, divestitures, major purchasing contracts and litigation.