Maxell

Maxell, Ltd.
Native name
マクセル株式会社
Makuseru Kabushiki-gaisha
Formerly
  • Maxell Electric Co., Ltd. (1960–1964)
  • Hitachi Maxell, Ltd. (1964–2021)
Company typePublic KK
TYO: 6810
IndustryElectronics
FoundedSeptember 3, 1960; 64 years ago (1960-09-03)
Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Headquarters
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Yoshiharu Katsuta
(President and CEO)
Products
RevenueDecrease ¥135.1 billion (2016)
Increase ¥5.7 billion (2016)
OwnerHitachi (3.01%)
Number of employees
3,966 (2016)
Websitewww2.maxell.co.jp
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]

  1. ^ "Corporate Data" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on October 15, 2017. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
  2. ^ "Corporate Profile". Google Finance. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
  3. ^ "Hitachi Maxell To List On Tokyo Bourse In $750M IPO". The Wall Street Journal. February 14, 2014. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
  4. ^ "Company Profile". Retrieved March 23, 2014.
  5. ^ "Maxell USA website".
  6. ^ (alphabetically)Peter H. Lewis (December 15, 1987). "Holiday Hardware". The New York Times. Fuji, Maxell, Polaroid, Sony, 3M and Verbatim
  7. ^ Peter H. Lewis (July 10, 1988). "Difficulties in Choosing Diskettes". The New York Times. 3M, Sony, Maxell, Polaroid, Fuji and BASF
  8. ^ "Maxell to no longer manufacture discs blow customers away". March 4, 2008. Retrieved September 13, 2020.