Hitachi

Hitachi is a popular Multinational company that specializes in manufacturing consumer electronics products. It is a public company, established in the year 1910 and is headquartered at Marunouchi, Tokyo, and Chiyoda in Japan. This is a part of the Hitachi group which is a section of the large DKB group. The founder is Mr. Namihei Odaira and president of the company is Kazuo Furukawa. The Hitachi group operates in a number of industries, which include electronics, machinery production, financial service, power plant and many more. About 347,810 employees are working for Hitachi and they generate annual revenue worth $94.998 billions. The company rankled 371 in 2007 list of Forbes Global 2000.

Hitachi - Achievements and growth

Hitachi started its journey as a small electrical equipments repairing shop. Now it exists as the oldest section of the entire Hitachi group. Hitachi has three factories which are sited at Kaigan, Rinkai, and Yamatte. There are quite a large number of features associated with the products of Hitachi. The servers, software, hard discs, ATM machines, computers etc are the products of the Hitachi IT systems manufacturing part. They also make machinery for the hydroelectric, nuclear and thermal plants. Railway supplies, heavyweight elevators and escalators are manufactured at Hitachi. In the electronics division, the semiconductors and LCD televisions are considered to be the best. Then there are Plasma TVs, mobile sets, LCD projectors, refrigerators, air-conditioners, vibrators, washing machines, MP3 players and many more. These electronic equipments are used by the consumers worldwide and has been embraced with much appreciation time and again.

Hitachi - Research and technologies

Research has always been an integral part of the technologies used by Hitachi. They operate the research works from 6 technical libraries which are "Central Research Laboratory", "Central Research Laboratory", "Hitachi Research Laboratory", "Mechanical Engineering Research Laboratory", "Systems Development Laboratory" and "Production Engineering Research Laboratory". The R&D organizations handle these tasks in the other countries. Hitachi researches are also conducted in the popular laboratories in Europe, America, Asia and China. Hitachi won the "Investment in People Award" and "Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship Awards" in the year of 2007.

Hitachi - Home appliances and LCD televisions

Hitachi has its own brand following, when it comes to LCD televisions and other home appliances and this is growing day by day. They feature Plasma TV, Hybrid camcorders, LCD TVs and DVDs. The LCD TVs are available with various screen sizes ranging from 32 inches to 42 inches. The LCD TVs are all high definition televisions with resolution of 1366x 768 pixels and there are two HDMI inputs in each. In fact with the similar features you can get a number of models with increased screen size. The most attractive product is the slimmest LCD TV UT42-MX700A, which comes with an amazing contrast ratio of 10000:1. The television set incorporates a number of latest technologies and this is a user-friendly product with ecologically favorable design. The slim televisions are also available with 32 and 37 inches screen.
Hitachi definitely deserves to be the best as its products have managed to carve a niche for themselves with their exquisite features and functionality.