 | |
 Maxell Holdings office building in Tokyo | |
Native name | マクセル株式会社 |
|---|---|
Romanized name | Makuseru Kabushiki-gaisha |
| Formerly |
|
| Company type | Public KK |
| TYO: 6810 | |
| Industry | Electronics |
| Founded | September 3, 1960 Osaka Prefecture, Japan |
| Headquarters | |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Yoshiharu Katsuta (President and CEO) |
| Products | |
| Revenue |  ¥135.1 billion (2016) |
 ¥5.7 billion (2016) | |
| Owner | Hitachi (3.01%) |
Number of employees | 3,966 (2016) |
| Website | www2 |
| Footnotes / references [1][2][3] | |
Maxell, Ltd. (マクセル株式会社, Makuseru Kabushiki-gaisha), commonly known as Maxell, is a Japanese company that manufactures consumer electronics.
The company's name is a contraction of "Maximum capacity dry cell". Its main products are batteries, wireless charging products, storage devices, (USB flash drive, with real capacity 4- 8- 16- 32- 64- 128- 256GB) LCD/laser projectors, and functional materials.[4][5] In the past, the company manufactured recording media, including audio cassettes and blank VHS tapes, floppy disks,[6][7] and recordable optical discs including CD-R/RW and DVD±RW.
On March 4, 2008, Maxell announced that they would outsource the manufacturing of their optical media.[8]
- ^ "Corporate Data" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on October 15, 2017. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
- ^ "Corporate Profile". Google Finance. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
- ^ "Hitachi Maxell To List On Tokyo Bourse In $750M IPO". The Wall Street Journal. February 14, 2014. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
- ^ "Company Profile". Retrieved March 23, 2014.
- ^ "Maxell USA website".
- ^ (alphabetically)Peter H. Lewis (December 15, 1987). "Holiday Hardware". The New York Times.
Fuji, Maxell, Polaroid, Sony, 3M and Verbatim
- ^ Peter H. Lewis (July 10, 1988). "Difficulties in Choosing Diskettes". The New York Times.
3M, Sony, Maxell, Polaroid, Fuji and BASF
- ^ "Maxell to no longer manufacture discs blow customers away". March 4, 2008. Retrieved September 13, 2020.