is a Japanese company headquartered in

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. It was established in 1964, and its main business is in lighting equipment.

History

Ushio, Inc., was established in 1964 from the electric lighting department of Ushio Industrial, Inc., which had grown in 1916 as

Himeji 260px, Himeji City Hall is a city located in Hyōgo Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 525,682 in 227,099 households and a population density of 980 persons per km2. The total area of the city is ...

Electric Bulb Company, out of a department of Chūgoku Gōdō Denki, owned jointly by the predecessor companies of Kansai Electric Power and Chūgoku Electric Power. Ushio moved its headquarters from Himeji, Hyōgo Prefecture, to

in 1971, while retaining its main research & development center in Himeji. Ushio, Inc. is headed by its Chairman Jirō Ushio ( 牛尾治朗, 1931- ), who was the chairman of the influential Japan Association of Corporate Executives between 1995 and 1999, and was the president of Japan Productivity Center ( 日本生産性本部) between 2003 and 2014. Ushio Industrial, Inc., was named after his father, Kenji Ushio ( 牛尾健治, 1898-1958), a native of Himeji like his son. Ushio was listed in the Second Section of Tokyo Stock Exchange in 1970, and in the First Section in 1980. Ushio entered the European market in 1985, with the foundation of Ushio Europe B.V., which is located in Oude Meer,

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Business

Ushio's main business is in lighting equipment, from halogen lamps to more sophisticated digital lighting and video processing equipment. In 1992, Ushio bought the Christie group of companies in U.S, a company known for their digital cinema projectors.

Subsidiaries

* Ushio Lighting, Chuo-ku, Tokyo,

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* Xebex, Inc., Chuo-ku, Tokyo * Maxray, Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo * ADTEC Engineering, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo * Christie Digital Systems,

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* Christie Medical Holdings,

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, USA * Ushio Europe B.V., Oude Meer,

* Ushio Germany GmbH, Steinhöring,

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* Ushio France S.A.R.L.

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* Ushio Poland Sp.z o.o. Błonie,

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* Ushio Korea Inc, Gangnam Daero Seocho-Gu,

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