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 Headquarters inOta, Tokyo | |
Native name | アルプスアルパイン株式会社 |
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Romanized name | Arupusu Arupain kabushiki-gaisha |
| Formerly | Kataoka Electric Co., Ltd. (1946-1964) Alps Electric Co., Ltd. (1964-2019) |
| Company type | Public (K.K) |
| TYO:6770 Nikkei 225 Component | |
| Industry | Electronics |
| Founded | 1 November 1948; 76 years ago (1948-11-01) (as Kataoka Electric Co., Ltd.) |
| Headquarters | 1-7 Yukigaya-otsuka-machi,, Japan |
Key people | Toshihiro Kuriyama, (President) Masataka Kataoka, (Chairman) |
| Products | |
| Revenue | US$5.806 billion (FY 2012) (¥ 546.423 billion) (FY 2012) |
| US$75.18 million (FY 2012) (¥ -7.075 billion) (FY 2012) | |
Number of employees | 36,199 (as of the end of March 2013) |
| Subsidiaries | Alpine Electronics Cirque Corporation Alps Logistics Alps Green Devices |
| Website | www |
| Footnotes / references [1][2] | |
Alps Alpine Co., Ltd (Japanese:アルプスアルパイン株式会社,Hepburn:Arupusu Arupain kabushiki-gaisha), previously known asAlps Electric Co., Ltd. (Japanese:アルプス電気株式会社,Hepburn:Arupusu Denki Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanesemultinational corporation, headquartered inTokyo,Japan, producingelectronic devices, includingswitches,potentiometers,sensors, encoders andtouchpads.[3]
The company was established in 1948 as Kataoka Electric Co., Ltd. and changed its name to Alps Electric Co., Ltd. in December 1964. Since June 22, 2012, the President has been Toshihiro Kuriyama and Chairman is Masataka Kataoka.[1] Alps is also well known for theAlpine brand ofcar audio.
The Alps Electric Group has R&D, production and sales bases located in Japan and around the globe—in the Americas, Europe, Southeast Asia, Korea, and Greater China.[4] Since its founding, Alps Electric has supplied around 40,000 types of electronic components to over 2,000 manufacturers of home appliances, mobile devices, automobiles and industrial equipment worldwide.[5]
In 2014, Alps Group comprised 84subsidiary companies, 25 through Alps Electric, 32 throughAlpine Electronics and 27 throughAlps Logistics.[6]
The company is listed on theTokyo Stock Exchange and a constituent of theNikkei 225stock index.[7]
After integrating its business with its previous subsidiaryAlpine Electronics in January 2019, the company was renamed Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.[8] Alpine had originally been established as a joint venture withMotorola in 1967, but had been a wholly owned subsidiary of Alps since 1978.
Alps Automotive division focuses on provision of custom products and modules, including control panels and steering modules, for specific vehicle models, and components compatible with any vehicle.[9]
Alps Home and Mobile divisions focuses on provision of switches, potentiometers, sensors, and other components through to multi-input devices like touch panels and GlidePoint™ to home, mobile and PC markets. Alps Electric focuses on human-machine and machine-machine interfaces for home appliances, mobile devices and PCs.[9]
Alps Industry, Healthcare & Energy divisions focuses on provision of a wide variety of products, including sensors, power inductors, switches and communication modules, to industry, healthcare and energy markets.[9]
Alps touchpad hardware is developed and manufactured by theCirque Corporation, which they acquired in 2003;[10] however, the parent company continues to write their own drivers. Their drivers areWindows certified. They are mostly found inSony,Toshiba andDellnotebooks, as well as theOLPC XO-1. They also manufacture keyboards for Apple computers, including the original Macintosh and the firstiMac.
On January 1, 2019, Alps Electric Co., Ltd. and Alpine Electronics, Inc. integrated the two businesses together under the new name of Alps Alpine Co., Ltd..[11] Alpine Electronics, Inc. became a wholly owned subsidiary of Alps in 1978 when Alps acquired all shares of Alps Motorola Inc.[12]
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