Citizen Watch
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core company of a Japanese global corporate group based in Tokyo, Japan
Key facts
- Native name
- シチズン時計株式会社
- Romanized name
- Shichizun Tokei kabushiki gaisha
- Formerly
- Shokosha Watch Research Institute (before 28 May 1930)
- Company type
- Public
- Traded as
- TYO : 7762 , Nikkei 225 Component
- Founded
- 1918 ; 108 years ago ( 1918 )
- Headquarters
- Nishitōkyō , Tokyo , Japan
- Key people
- Toshihiko Sato ( president and CEO)
- Products
- Watches electronic equipment industrial machinery and equipment jewelry
- Revenue
- ¥316.8 billion , US$2.93 billion ( FY 2024)
- Operating income
- ¥23.0 billion , US$204.61 million ( FY 2024)
- Net income
- ¥13.3 billion , US$121.49 million ( FY 2018)
- Number of employees
- 20,882 (2018)
- Website
- www .citizen .co .jp
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company
- Founded
- 1918
- Location
- Nishi-Tokyo-shi, Japan
- Also known as
- Citizen Holdings
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.471098.3 · ISNI 0000 0004 1781 537X
Official website
シチズン時計株式会社－（シチズングループサイト） | シチズンウオッチ オフィシャルサイト ［CITIZEN-シチズン］
CITIZEN-シチズン時計株式会社オフィシャルサイトのページです。シチズンの腕時計についてご紹介しています。
citizen.co.jp →Link to the official site · 3,402 chars · not written by Vinony
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Encyclopedic overview
Citizen Watch Co., Ltd. (シチズン時計株式会社, Shichizun tokei Kabushiki-gaisha), also known as the Citizen Group, is an electronics company primarily known for its watches and is the core company of a Japanese global corporate group based in Nishitokyo, Tokyo, Japan. In addition to Citizen brand watches, it is the parent of American watch company Bulova. Beyond watches, Citizen also manufactures calculators, printers, health care devices, and precision CNC machining equipment.
The company was founded in 1918 by Kamekichi Yamazaki as the Shokosha Watch Research Institute. It released its first Citizen-branded pocket watch in 1924, and Citizen Watch was established in 1930.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Citizen Watch” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.