Eizo

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Eizo Nanao Corporation 株式会社ナナオ

Type	Public
Founded	March 1968
Headquarters	Hakusan, Ishikawa, Japan
Key people	Yoshitaka Jitsumori: President and CEO
Industry	Computer
Products	Computer display
Revenue	▲ $741 million USD (2006)^[1]
Employees	1,248
Subsidiaries	Irem
Website	www.eizo.com

Eizo Nanao Corporation (株式会社ナナオ, Kabushiki-gaisha Nanao^?) (TYO: 6737), or EIZO, is a manufacturer of computer displays. A Japanese corporation, it was founded in March 1968 but did not adopt its current name until 1999 when Nanao Corporation and Eizo merged. Their products are targeted towards professional users and industry, offering high image quality at premium prices. They own Irem Software Engineering, a videogame developer.

1 History
2 Products
3 Trivia
4 References and footnotes
5 External links

[edit] History

The company founded was Hakui Electronic Corporation in Hakui, Japan in 1968 and initially manufactured televisions. In March 1978 it became Nanao Corporation. In 1976 it began manufacture of industrial monitors and in 1981 started making PC monitors.

Eizo was launched as a brand for Europe in 1985 after the company had founded Hitec Associates Ltd. as a sales subsidiary for the European market, and the company in the same period founded offices in the US to launch products the Nanao brand.

In January 1990 Hitec Associates Ltd was renamed Eizo Corporation. Nine years later the company merged Nanao Corporation and Eizo Corporation to form the current company^[2].

[edit] Products

LCD Monitors
Graphics Monitors
Touch Panel Monitors
Medical Display Systems
Windows-based Terminals
Accessories

[edit] Trivia

The company had become known in the mid 1980s to be a very successful manufacturer of CRT based computer monitors. In particular the company was noted to pick only the best performing Sony Trinitron tubes from the Sony production line for use in their products.