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. Fukuda Denshi, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, develops, manufactures and markets medical electronic equipment, especially products related to the cardiovascular and circulatory systems. The company's principal products include electrocardiograms (ECGs), ultrasound imaging equipment and patient monitoring systems.

In addition to its own products, Fukuda imports and sells medical equipment to the Japanese market, including products from St Jude Medical, Philips Medical Systems and Volcano Corporation. The company also provides a variety of rental equipment in Japan, including oxygen enrichers, oxygen tanks and other oxygen therapy equipment, sleep apnoea devices, polygraphs and continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)-based respirators.

Fukuda's products are offered within four divisions, as follows:-

Physiological Diagnostic Equipment - ECGs, ultrasound imaging, automatic blood cell counters and respiratory diagnostic equipment. ECGs represent a key product line and the company claims to hold over a 60% market share for the products in Japan.

Patient Monitoring Equipment - patient monitors and clinical information systems.

Medical Treatment Equipment - defibrillators, ventilators, rental business (oxygen concentrators, sleep apnoea devices and in-home ventilators). Includes sales of Philips' automated external defibrillators, St Jude Medical's pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs), Volcano's intravascular ultrasound products and Maquet and eVent Medical's ventilators in Japan.

Other Products and Accessories - recording paper, disposable electrodes and accessories, as well as consumables used for devices handled by the other segments.

By product type, the company generated 35.8% of its revenue in fiscal 2006 from sales of medical treatment equipment, 30.9% from physiological diagnostic products, 54.4% from accessories and consumables and 7.9% from patient monitoring equipment.

Fukuda's products are exported to nearly 60 countries worldwide. However, the company is predominately focused on Japan, where over 90% of its revenue and identifiable assets are generated. Nevertheless, it is increasingly focused on expanding its global presence in order to drive future growth.

Currently, the company's international manufacturing operations consist of Fukuda Denshi USA, Inc., based in Redmond, Washington, which develops and manufactures medical electronic equipment; and Beijing Fukuda Denshi Medical Instruments Co. Ltd., a manufacturing and sales subsidiary based in Beijing, China.