Toshiba

Toshiba is a Japanese multinational company. Its diversified products include information technology and telecommunication equipment and systems, electronic components and materials, power systems, industrial and social infrastructure systems, household appliances, medical equipment and lighting.

Toshiba Corporation was started in 1939, by two companies, a telegraph manufacturer and a light bulb maker.

History
July 11, 1875, Tanaka Hisashige strarted an electric equipment factory which was the first in Japan to produce telegraphs.
1939 Toshiba was founded in 1939 as Tokyo Shibaura Electric K.K. through the merger of Shibaura Seisaku-sho (founded in 1875) and Tokyo Denki (founded in 1890).

Products and services
TV
Blu-ray Disc
PC
elevators and escalators
control systems (including air-traffic control systems, railway systems, security systems and traffic control systems)
medical equipment (including CT and MRI scanners, ultrasound equipment and X-ray equipment)
3D television
HDD
printers

Main brands of products
VEGETA (Refrigerator)
ZABOON (Clothes dryer)
TORNEO (Cleaner)
Smarbo (Cleaner)
dynabook laptops, which were bought by Sharp in 2018
REGZA (smartphone)

References

Category:Computer hardware companies
Category:Electronics companies of Japan
Category:1939 establishments in Japan