Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi (Japanese: 日立製作所) is a global company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Hitachi is a member of The Open Group.

History

Hitachi was founded in 1910 as an electrical repair shop.

From the 1960s through to the 1980s, Hitachi had made consumer audio equipment such as portable radios and cassette recorders. They had established themselves as a value-priced brand of such equipment, but due to such equipment emanating from South Korea in significant quantities, their consumer-electronics focus had been on domestic video equipment. At the moment, there are fewer models of consumer-audio equipment under this brand.

Products

Heavy equipment (Euclid-Hitachi Heavy Equipment Inc.)

High definition televisions (HDTV)

Mobile phones

Digital audio players

Televisions

Appliances (under a subsidiary Hitachi Hometec, manufacturer of mainly micom rice cookers and vacuum pots)

Power Tools

Financing/Credit (Hitachi Capital America)
As well as consumer products, Hitachi provides products for other manufactures such as integrated circuits and other semiconductors.