Maxell

Maxell, Ltd.
	Maxell Holdings office building in Tokyo
Native name	マクセル株式会社
Romanized name	Makuseru Kabushiki-gaisha
Formerly	Hitachi Maxell, Ltd.; Maxell Electric Co., Ltd.;
Company type	Public KK
Traded as	TYO: 6810
Industry	Electronics
Founded	September 3, 1960; Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Headquarters	(Tokyo) 2-18-2, Iidabashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8521, Japan; (Kyoto) 1 Koizumi Oyamazaki, Otokuni, Kyoto 618-8525, Japan;
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Yoshiharu Katsuta; (President and CEO)
Products	Consumer and industrial batteries; Data storage devices; Optical lenses; Headphones; LCD and Laser Projectors; Computer tapes; Functional materials; RFID systems;
Revenue	¥135.1 billion (2016)
Net income	¥5.7 billion (2016)
Owner	Hitachi (3.01%)
Number of employees	3,966 (2016)
Website	www.maxell.co.jp
	Footnotes / references;

Maxell, Ltd. (マクセル株式会社, Makuseru Kabushiki-gaisha), commonly known as Maxell, is a Japanese company that manufactures consumer electronics.

The company's name is a contraction of "Maximum capacity dry cell". Its main products are batteries, wireless charging products, storage devices, (USB flash drive, with real capacity 4- 8- 16- 32- 64- 128- 256GB) LCD/laser projectors, and functional materials.^[4]^[5] In the past, the company manufactured recording media, including audio cassettes and blank VHS tapes, floppy disks,^[6]^[7] and recordable optical discs including CD-R/RW and DVD±RW.

On March 4, 2008, Maxell announced that they would outsource the manufacturing of their optical media.^[8]

^ "Corporate Data" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on October 15, 2017. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
^ "Corporate Profile". Google Finance. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
^ "Hitachi Maxell To List On Tokyo Bourse In $750M IPO". The Wall Street Journal. February 14, 2014. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
^ "Company Profile". Retrieved March 23, 2014.
^ "Maxell USA website".
^ (alphabetically)Peter H. Lewis (December 15, 1987). "Holiday Hardware". The New York Times. Fuji, Maxell, Polaroid, Sony, 3M and Verbatim
^ Peter H. Lewis (July 10, 1988). "Difficulties in Choosing Diskettes". The New York Times. 3M, Sony, Maxell, Polaroid, Fuji and BASF
^ "Maxell to no longer manufacture discs blow customers away". March 4, 2008. Retrieved September 13, 2020.

[1] "Corporate Data" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on October 15, 2017. Retrieved March 23, 2014.

[2] "Corporate Profile". Google Finance. Retrieved March 23, 2014.

[3] "Hitachi Maxell To List On Tokyo Bourse In $750M IPO". The Wall Street Journal. February 14, 2014. Retrieved March 23, 2014.

[4] "Company Profile". Retrieved March 23, 2014.

[5] "Maxell USA website".

[6] (alphabetically)Peter H. Lewis (December 15, 1987). "Holiday Hardware". The New York Times. Fuji, Maxell, Polaroid, Sony, 3M and Verbatim

[7] Peter H. Lewis (July 10, 1988). "Difficulties in Choosing Diskettes". The New York Times. 3M, Sony, Maxell, Polaroid, Fuji and BASF

[8] "Maxell to no longer manufacture discs blow customers away". March 4, 2008. Retrieved September 13, 2020.

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