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| Company type | Public KK |
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| TYO: 6856 | |
| Industry | Electronics/measurement Instruments |
| Founded | Kyoto, Japan |
| Founder | Masao Horiba |
| Headquarters | 2 Miyanohigashi, Kisshoin, Minami-ku Kyoto, 601-8510 Japan |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Atsushi Horiba (Chairman & Group CEO) |
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| Revenue |  US$ 1,887 million (FY 2019)(¥ 200,241 million) (FY 2019) |
| US$ 145 million (FY 2019) (¥ 15,481 million) (FY 2019) | |
Number of employees | 8,288 (As of December 31, 2019) |
| Website | Official website |
| Footnotes / references [1][2][3] | |
Horiba, Ltd. (堀場製作所, Kabushiki-gaisha Horiba Seisaku-sho) is a Japanese manufacturer of precision instruments for measurement and analysis. They make instruments that measure and analyze automobile exhaust gas (80% share of the world market),[4] and environmental, medical and scientific applications.
Horiba is one of the top 25 analytical and life sciences instrumentation companies in the world.[5]
The group has been involved in measurement technology for more than 50 years.[citation needed] It is diversified in 5 different sectors: automotive tests systems (36% activity), environmental (11%), medical (17%), semiconductor (19%) and scientific fields (17%). Today, the group, chaired by Atsushi Horiba, gathers 5,965 employees worldwide and generated 1 294 million of dollars in 2014.[dubious – discuss]
The motto of HORIBA Ltd. is "Joy and Fun".[citation needed]
- ^ "Company Outline". Horiba. Retrieved September 12, 2014.
- ^ "Company Snapshot". Bloomberg Businessweek. Archived from the original on September 12, 2014. Retrieved September 12, 2014.
- ^ "Company Summary". Google Finance. Retrieved September 12, 2014.
- ^ Pernille Rudlin (April 25, 2011). "Horiba – one of corporate Japan's quiet success stories". Rudlin Consulting. Retrieved September 12, 2014.
- ^ Ann M. Thayer (April 10, 2013). "Top Instrument Firms". Chemical & Engineering News. Retrieved September 12, 2014.