fujitsu saga . fujitsu ltd. shiodome city center fujitsu s world headquarters in tokyo japan 1 native name type public traded as tyo 6702 industry computer hardware computer software it services it consulting telecommunications founded 1935 ; 81 years ago 1935 kawasaki kanagawa 2 headquarters shiodome city center minato tokyo japan area served worldwide key people masami yamamoto chairman tatsuya tanaka president products see products listing revenue 4.739 trillion 2015 1 operating income 120.61 billion 2015 1 net income 90.42 billion 2015 1 total assets 3.226 trillion 2015 1 total equity 926.24 billion 2015 1 number of employees 159 000 2015 2 website www.fujitsu.com footnotes references a b c d e fy 2015 full year financial results pdf . retrieved april 29 2016 . fujitsu ltd. fujits commonly referred to as fujitsu is a japanese multinational information technology equipment and services company headquartered in tokyo japan . 3 in 2015 it was the world s fourth largest it services provider measured by it services revenue after ibm hp and accenture . 4 fortune named fujitsu as one of the world s most admired companies 5 and a global 500 company . 6 fujitsu chiefly makes computing products but the company and its subsidiaries also offer a diversity of products and services in the areas of personal computing enterprise computing including x86 sparc and mainframe server products as well as storage products telecommunications advanced microelectronics and air conditioning . it has approximately 159 000 employees and its products and services are available in over 100 countries . 2 fujitsu is listed on the tokyo stock exchange and is a constituent of the nikkei 225 and topix indices . contents 1 history 1.1 1935 to 2000 1.2 2000 to present 2 operations 2.1 fujitsu laboratories 2.2 fujitsu semiconductor europe gmbh 2.3 fujitsu technology solutions 2.4 fujitsu consulting 2.5 fujitsu general 2.6 pfu limited 2.7 fujitsu glovia inc. 3 products and services 3.1 computing products 3.2 cloud computing 3.3 microprocessors 4 advertising 5 environmental record 6 see also 7 references 8 external links history edit 1935 to 2000 edit fujitsu is the third oldest it company after ibm and before hewlett packard established on june 20 1935 7 under the name fuji telecommunications equipment manufacturing fuji denki ts shin kiki seiz as a spin off of the fuji electric company itself a joint venture between the furukawa electric company and the german conglomerate siemens which had been founded in 1923 . despite its connections to the furukawa zaibatsu fujitsu escaped the allied occupation of japan after the second world war mostly unscathed . in 1954 fujitsu manufactured japan s first computer the facom 100 and in 1961 launched the transistorized facom 222 . in 1955 fujitsu founded kawasaki frontale as a company football club ; kawasaki frontale has been a j. league football club since 1999 . in 1967 the company s name was officially changed to the contraction fujits . the company also fields a company american football team the fujitsu frontiers 8 who play in the corporate x league have appeared in 6 japan x bowls winning one and winning one rice bowl . in 1971 fujitsu signed an oem agreement with the canadian company consolidated computers limited ccl to distribute ccl s data entry product key edit . fujitsu joined both icl who earlier began marketing key edit in the british commonwealth of countries as well as in both western and eastern europe ; and ccl s direct marketing staff in canada usa london uk and frankfurt . mers kutt inventor of key edit and founder of ccl was the common thread that led to fujitsu s later association with icl and gene amdahl . in 1986 fujitsu and the queen s university of belfast business incubation unit qubis ltd established a joint venture called kainos a privately held software company based in belfast northern ireland . 9 10 in 1990 fujitsu acquired 80 % of the uk based computer company international computers limited icl for 1.29 billion icl was renamed fujitsu services in 2002 . 11 12 in september 1990 fujitsu announced the launch of a new series of mainframe computers which were at that time the fastest in the world . 13 14 in july 1991 fujitsu acquired more than half of the russian company kme cs kazan manufacturing enterprise of computer systems . in 1992 fujitsu introduced the world s first 21 inch full color plasma display . it was a hybrid based upon the plasma display created at the university of illinois at urbana champaign and nhk strl achieving superior brightness . in 1993 fujitsu formed a flash memory manufacturing joint venture with amd spansion . as part of the transaction amd contributed its flash memory group fab 25 in texas its r & d facilities and assembly plants in thailand malaysia and china ; fujitsu provided its flash memory business division and the malaysian fujitsu microelectronics final assembly and test operations . 15 from february 1989 until mid 1997 fujitsu built the fm towns pc variant . it started as a proprietary pc variant intended for multimedia applications and computer games but later became more compatible with regular pcs . in 1993 the fm towns marty was released a gaming console compatible with the fm towns games . fujitsu agreed to acquire the 58 percent of amdahl corporation including the canada based dmr consulting group that it did not already own for around 850 million in july 1997 . 16 in april 1997 the company acquired a 30 percent stake in glovia international inc. an el segundo calif. manufacturing erp software provider whose software it had begun integrating into its electronics plants starting in 1994 . 17 in june 1999 fujitsu s historical connection with siemens was revived when the two companies agreed to merge their european computer operations into a new 50 50 joint venture called fujitsu siemens computers which became the world s fifth largest computer manufacturing company . 18 2000 to present edit in april 2000 fujitsu acquired the remaining 70 % of glovia international . 17 in april 2002 icl was re branded as fujitsu . on march 2 2004 fujitsu computer products of america lost a class action lawsuit over hard disk drives with defective chips and firmware . in october 2004 fujitsu acquired the australian subsidiary of atos origin a systems implementation company with around 140 employees which specialized in sap . 19 in august 2007 fujitsu signed a 500 million 10 year deal with reuters group under which reuters outsourced the majority of its internal it department to fujitsu . 20 21 as part of the agreement around 300 reuters staff and 200 contractors transferred to fujitsu . 20 21 in october 2007 fujitsu announced that it would be establishing an offshore development centre in noida india with a capacity to house 1 200 employees in an investment of us 10 million . 22 23 in october 2007 fujitsu s australia and new zealand subsidiary acquired infinity solutions ltd a new zealand based it hardware services and consultancy company for an undisclosed amount . 24 25 in january 2009 fujitsu reached an agreement to sell its hdd business to toshiba . 26 transfer of the business was completed on october 1 . 2009 . 27 28 in march 2009 fujitsu announced that it had decided to convert fdk corporation at that time an equity method affiliate to a consolidated subsidiary from may 1 2009 tentative schedule by subscribing to a private placement to increase fdk s capital.fdk on april 1 2009 fujitsu agreed to acquire siemens stake in fujitsu siemens computers for approximately eur450m . 29 fujitsu siemens computers was subsequently renamed fujitsu technology solutions . 30 in april 2009 fujitsu acquired australian software company supply chain consulting for 48 million deal just weeks after purchasing the telstra subsidiary kaz for 200 million . 31 concerning of net loss forecast amounted 95 billion yen in the year ending march 2013 in february 2013 fujitsu announced to cut 5 000 jobs which 3 000 jobs in japan and the rest overseas from its 170 000 employees . 32 fujitsu will also merge its large scale integrated chip business with that of panasonic corporation . 33 in 2015 fujitsu celebrates 80 years since establishment and on the it side are currently embarked upon the fujitsu 2015 world tour 34 which has included 15 major cities globally and been visited by over 10 000 it professionals with fujitsu presenting its take on the future of hyper connectivity and human centric computing . in april 2015 glovia international is renamed fujitsu glovia inc. 35 in november 2015 fujitsu limited and vmware announced new areas of collaboration to empower customers with flexible and secure cloud technologies . 36 in january 2016 fujitsu network communications inc. announced a new suite of layered products to advance software defined networking sdn for carriers service providers and cloud builders . virtuora nc based on open standards is described by fujitsu as a suite of standards based multi layer multi vendor network automation and virtualization products that has been hands on hardened by some of the largest global service providers . 37 operations edit the fujitsu office in bracknell united kingdom formerly an icl site and opened by hm the queen in 1976 fujitsu laboratories edit fujitsu laboratories fujitsu s research and development division has 1 300 employees and a capital of 5 billion yen . it is run by tatsuo tomita . 38 in 2012 fujitsu announced that it had developed new technology for non 3d camera phones . the technology will allow the camera phones to take 3d photos . 39 fujitsu semiconductor europe gmbh edit fujitsu semiconductor europe gmbh fseu is a wholly owned subsidiary of fujitsu semiconductor limited formally known as fujitsu microelectronics europe gmbh . the name change was instituted in 2010 . 40 fseu designs and supplies semiconductor devices and systems solutions to the european automotive communications multimedia and industrial segments . 41 its main design offices are in the uk and germany . fujitsu technology solutions edit the cemea & i region continental europe middle east africa & india plays an important role within the fujitsu group . here fujitsu technology solutions evolved from the former joint venture fujitsu siemens computers holds global responsibility for research development and distribution of all x86 servers produced by fujitsu . the company s dynamic infrastructures strategy was also born here . the term dynamic infrastructures stands for a comprehensive range of it products solutions and services from pcs and notebooks to data center solutions and infrastructure as a service and managed infrastructure services that dynamically adapt and adjust to the ever changing demands of today s economy fujitsu consulting edit fujitsu consulting is the consulting and services arm of the fujitsu group providing information technology consulting implementation and management services . fujitsu consulting was founded in 1973 in montreal canada under its original name dmr an acronym of the three founder s names pierre ducros serge meilleur and alain roy 42 during the next decade the company established a presence throughout quebec and canada before extending its reach to international markets . for nearly thirty years dmr consulting grew to become an international consulting firm changing its name to fujitsu consulting in 2002 after being acquired by fujitsu ltd. 43 fujitsu general edit fujitsu ltd has a 42 % shareholding in fujitsu general which manufactures and markets various air conditioning units and humidity control solutions . 44 a similar venture is sponsored by fujitsu in india called general airconditioners . pfu limited edit pfu limited headquartered in ishikawa japan is a wholly owned subsidiary of fujitsu limited . pfu limited was established in 1960 has approximately 4 600 employees globally and in 2013 turned over 126.4 billion yen 1.2 billion usd . pfu manufactures interactive kiosks keyboards network security hardware embedded computers and imaging products document scanners all under the pfu or fujitsu brand