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Company Name: Alps

Description: Officially founded on November 1, 1948, the Alps Electric Co. Ltd. is considered as one of the premiere companies in the Japanese market that is involved in the production and distribution of automotive accessories and equipments, computing devices, personal computer peripherals, communications equipments, magnetic devices, and electrical components.

The company successfully grew in stature and financial capacity with over 23 million yen in capital stocks as of March 2008. It maintains a workforce strength of 6,240 employees and generating 692,656 million yen in consolidated sales with 330,148 million yen in non-consolidated sales.

The corporate management is headed by Masataka Kataoka and ably assisted by Senior Managing Directors Yozo Yasuoka and Takahide Sato. Seishi Ka fills the position of Managing Director with Hiroshi Akiyama, Kazuya Yoshikoshi, and Kenji Yoshino performing the roles of company auditors.

The Board of Directors is composed of Seizo Ishiguro, Yasushiro Fujii, Toshihiro Kuriyama, Nobuhiko Komeya, Motohiro Shimaoka, Junichi Umehara, Masara Usui, Shuji Takamura, Yoshitada Amagishi and Takashi Kimoto. These competent executives are responsible for continuing the company’s success from its inception.

The company is currently the head corporation in a corporate conglomeration that is composed of 83 companies that is collectively known as the Alps Groups. Alps Logistics and Alpine have proven to be two of the stronger performers of the group in the global market. Alpine is responsible for the delivery of telecommunication media solutions while Alps Logistics is focused on providing logistics services to the group in a global landscape.

Taking into consideration the various products brought to the market by Alps, the contribution to the company’s revenue can be summed up as 35.7% coming from its audio equipment products, 7.8% generated by the logistics service, and 56.5% coming from the movement of its electrical components.

With the bulk of company sales coming from the electrical components group, a further breakdown of the revenues reveal 14.4% contribution delivered by the component products, 1.8% from magnetic devices, 8.1% coming from communication equipments, 16.4% from the peripherals, and 15.8% being contributed by the automotive electronics.

The significant expansion activities undertaken by the company in recent decades is considered as part of the reason for its continued growth. The expansion activities are not only geographic but in terms of product portfolio as well. The company’s line of business in the for component switches include Camera Modules, Optical Modules, Compact Mechanism, Connectors, Sensors, Encoders, Variable Resister, Contactsheet, and TACT Switch.

The Magnetic Devices product line includes Thermal Printing Head, Piezoelectric Pumps, Magnetic Sensors, Liqualloy Magnetic Sheets, and Optical Communication Lenses. The Communication line includes Digital/Analog TV Tuners, Wireless LAN Modules, and Bluetooth Modules.

On July 31, 2007 the company completed its development of the HSPC Series of capacitance type pressure sensor to detect absolute pressure. On February 19, 2008 the company teamed up with Novas Software Inc. for the development of the Nova’s Verdi in relation to its IC sensor products.
 

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