Epson | |
Native name | セイコーエプソン株式会社 |
Romanized name | Seikō Epuson Kabushiki-gaisha |
Company type | Public |
TYO: 6724 | |
Industry | Electronics |
Founded | May 18, 1942 | (as Daiwa Kogyo, Ltd.)
Headquarters | , Japan (Officially registered in Shinjuku, Tokyo) |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Minoru Usui (chairman & Director) Yasunori Ogawa (president, CEO & Representative Director) |
Products | |
Revenue | ¥1.129 trillion (2021) (US$9.231 billion)[2] |
Number of employees | 77,642 (2022)[2] |
Divisions | Orient Watch |
Website | corporate.epson |
Seiko Epson Corporation, commonly known as Epson,[3] is a Japanese multinational electronics company and one of the world's largest manufacturers of printers and information- and imaging-related equipment. Headquartered in Suwa, Nagano, Japan,[4] the company has numerous subsidiaries worldwide and manufactures inkjet, dot matrix, thermal and laser printers for consumer, business and industrial use, scanners, laptop and desktop computers, video projectors, watches, point of sale systems, robots and industrial automation equipment, semiconductor devices, crystal oscillators, sensing systems and other associated electronic components.
The company has developed as one of manufacturing and research and development (formerly known as Seikosha) of the former Seiko Group, a name traditionally known for manufacturing Seiko timepieces. Seiko Epson was one of the major companies in the Seiko Group, but is neither a subsidiary nor an affiliate of Seiko Group Corporation.