Canon Inc.

Canon Inc.
Native name
キヤノン株式会社
Kyanon kabushiki gaisha
FormerlyPrecision Optical Industry Co. Ltd. (1933-1947)
Canon Camera Co., Inc (1947-1969)
Company typePublic
IndustryElectronics
Founded10 August 1937 (1937-08-10) (as Precision Optical Industry Co. Ltd. [精機光學研究所, Seikikōgaku kenkyūsho])
Tokyo, Japan
Founder
  • Goro Yoshida
  • Saburo Uchida
  • Takeo Maeda
HeadquartersShimomaruko, ,
Japan
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Fujio Mitarai (chairman & CEO)
Products
Revenue ¥4.03 trillion (US$30.31 billion) (2022)
¥353.4 billion (US$2.66 billion) (2022)
¥352.4 billion (US$2.65 billion) (2022)
Total assets ¥5.1 trillion (US$38.31 billion) (2022)
Total equity ¥3.11 trillion (US$23.41 billion) (2022)
Number of employees
184,034 (2021)
DivisionsOffice Business Unit, Consumer Business Unit, Industry and Others Business Unit
Subsidiaries
Websiteglobal.canon

Canon Inc. (Japanese: キヤノン株式会社; Hepburn: Kyanon kabushiki gaisha) is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, specializing in optical, imaging, and industrial products, such as lenses, cameras, medical equipment, scanners, printers, and semiconductor manufacturing equipment.

Canon has a primary listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the TOPIX Core 30 and Nikkei 225 indexes. It used to have a secondary listing on the New York Stock Exchange.