Company Overview

Business Description

Sector
Consumer Discretionary
Industry
Consumer products
Headquarters
Japan JP
Employees
20 069
IPO date
May 16, 1949

Nikon makes imaging and precision equipment. Its best-known products are cameras, lenses, binoculars, microscopes, and semiconductor lithography systems. For consumers and professionals, it sells cameras and optics through retailers and dealers. For industrial customers, it supplies highly specialized tools used to make chips and inspect tiny structures in manufacturing and research.

The company earns money by selling hardware, related software, and after-sales service. In consumer imaging, customers include hobbyists, content creators, and professional photographers. In precision equipment, the buyers are chipmakers, electronics manufacturers, universities, hospitals, and research labs that need very accurate optical systems.

What makes Nikon different is that it sits at the intersection of photography and advanced industrial optics. It is not just a camera brand; it also plays an important role deeper in the technology supply chain, where its equipment helps enable chip production and scientific measurement. That mix gives Nikon two very different businesses built around the same core strength: precision light and imaging control.

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Address
1-5-20, Nishioi
Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo-To
Japan

Business Segments

Imaging

This part sells cameras, lenses, binoculars, and related imaging gear under the Nikon brand. It also includes software and accessories used with those products.

Customers and revenue model

Precision equipment

This part builds lithography systems and other factory equipment used to make semiconductors and flat-panel displays. It also provides parts and services tied to that equipment.

Customers and revenue model

Healthcare

Description, customers and revenue model

Components

Description, customers and revenue model

Management

Mr. Toshikazu Umatate

CEO & Representative Director

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Mr. Muneaki Tokunari

President, COO, CFO, CRO & Representative Director

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Yasuhiro Ohmura

Senior EVP, CTO, Deputy CFO, GM of Corporate Strategy & Director

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Mr. Yoichi Kassai

Corporate VP and GM of Group Governance & Administration Division

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Mr. Masato Hamatani

Senior VP & GM of Precision Equipment Group

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Mr. Hiroyuki Ikegami

Executive VP & GM of Imaging Business Unit

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Manabu Toguchi

Senior VP, Deputy GM of Precision Equipment Group & GM of FPD Lithography Business Unit

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Yoshihiro Maki

Senior VP & GM of Industrial Solutions Business Unit

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Tatsuya Yamaguchi

Senior VP & GM of Healthcare Business Unit

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Mr. Tetsuya Okumura

Finance & Accounting General Manager

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