Private company

Toshiba

Japanese electronics conglomerate

Toshiba Corporation (株式会社東芝, Kabushikigaisha Tōshiba; English: ) is a Japanese multinational electronics company headquartered in Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture. Its diversified products and services include power, industrial and social infrastructure systems, elevators and escalators, electronic components, semiconductors, hard disk drives, printers, batteries, lighting, as well as IT solutions such as quantum cryptography.2 From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 16, 2026.

Overview

1875Founded1
  • Industryelectrical industry, electronics industry, software industry1
  • HeadquartersMinato1
  • Founded inTokyo1
  • Websitewww.toshiba.com
  • Legal formkabushiki gaisha1

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The story

Founded by Tanaka Hisashige in 1875, in Tokyo.1

Leadership

Who has led Toshiba, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

Chief executive

  1. Nobuaki Kurumatani2018–2021
197019801990200020102020

Subsidiaries and ownership

Owners

  • Mitsui Group

Subsidiaries

  • BS Conditional Access Systems
  • Ikegami Tsushinki
  • OCZ
  • TOSHIBA INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS & SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
  • Toshiba (Austria)
  • Toshiba (Germany)
  • Toshiba (South Korea)
  • Toshiba (United Kingdom)
  • Toshiba (United States)
  • Toshiba Brave Lupus
  • Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation
  • Toshiba EMI Ltd.
  • Toshiba Nanoanalysis Corporation
  • Toshiba Research Europe Ltd
  • Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology
  • Toshiba Tec

Also owns

  • D6 HDTV VTR
  • Japan Display
  • Miramax
  • NuGeneration
  • Westinghouse Electric Company

From Wikidata.1

Acquisitions

  1. 2018Acquired TVS REGZA1
  2. Jun 30, 2016Acquired Toshiba Lifestyle Products & Services1
  3. 1983Acquired Miramax1
  4. May 1958Acquired Dynabook1

Timeline

  1. Apr 2018New chief executive Nobuaki Kurumatani becomes CEO1
  2. 1875Founded Founded in Tokyo1

Sources

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