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Encyclopedia > Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd
三菱重工業
Mitsubishi Logo
Type Public (TYO: 7011 )
Founded 1934, 1964
Headquarters 5-1, Marunouchi 2-chome, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8315 Japan
Key people Takashi Nishioka (Chairman)
Kazuo Tsukuda (President)
Junichi Maezawa (VP)
Area served Global
Revenue ¥2,792.1 billion (2006)
Net income ¥29.8 billion (2006)
Employees 63,500
Divisions Marine Vessel and Ocean
Power Engine
Machinery and Iron Structure
Aviation and Space
Medium-size Product
The Others
Website MHI-ir.jp

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd (MHI) (三菱重工業, Mitsubishi Jūkōgyō) TYO: 7011 is a Japanese company. It is one of the core companies of Mitsubishi Group. Mitsubishi Logo, claiming fair use This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ... A public company is a company owned by the public rather than by relatively few individuals. ... The Tokyo Stock Exchange ), or TSE, is one of the largest stock exchange markets in the world by monetary volume located in Tokyo, Japan, second only to the New York Stock Exchange. ... Categories: Wards of Tokyo | Japan geography stubs ... Revenue is a U.S. business term for the amount of money that a company earns from its activities in a given period, mostly from sales of products and/or services to customers. ... Image File history File links Green_Arrow_Up_(Darker). ... Net income is equal to the income that a firm has after subtracting costs and expenses from the total revenue. ... Image File history File links Green_Arrow_Up_(Darker). ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, typically common to a particular domain name or subdomain on the World Wide Web on the Internet. ... The Tokyo Stock Exchange ), or TSE, is one of the largest stock exchange markets in the world by monetary volume located in Tokyo, Japan, second only to the New York Stock Exchange. ... The Mitsubishi companies, or the Mitsubishi Group of Companies or the Mitsubishi Group is a large group (keiretsu) of independently operated Japanese companies which share the Mitsubishi brand name. ...

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History

In 1870 Yataro Iwasaki, the founder of Mitsubishi took a lease of Government-owned Nagasaki Shipyard. He named it Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works, and started the shipbuilding business on a full scale. This shipbuilding business was later turned into Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., and was again launched as Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. in 1934, establishing its position as the largest private firm in Japan, manufacturing ships, heavy machinery, airplanes, and railroad cars. Following the end of World War II, a law aimed at dissolving zaibatsu or Nagasaki Shipyard & Machinery Works dismantling the over concentration of economic power was in effect. Thus, in 1950, MHI was divided into three entities: West Japan Heavy-Industries, Ltd., Central Japan Heavy-Industries, Ltd. and East Japan Heavy-Industries, Ltd. It was later consolidated in 1964 and reborn as Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. Yataro Iwasaki (1835 - 1885) was a Japanese financier and shipping industrialist. ... Zaibatsu , lit. ...


In 1970, MHI's automobile department became independent and Mitsubishi Motors began manufacturing and marketing automobiles. Mitsubishi Motors Corporation ) is the fourth largest auto-manufacturer in Japan, and in 2006 was ranked 782nd on Forbes list of the 2000 largest public companies. ...


Product lines

Light rail vehicles - Crystal Mover Cars.
Light rail vehicles - Crystal Mover Cars.
  • Shipbuilding / Marine structures
  • Steel structures and construction
  • Power systems
  • Turbochargers
  • Nuclear energy systems
  • Machinery
  • Forklifts
  • Aerospace
    • Prime contractor for the H-IIA launcher system.
  • General machinery
  • Air conditioning and refrigeration systems
  • Industrial machinery
  • Paper and printing machinery
  • Machine tool
  • Light rail vehicles

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Technology

Investor information

Shareholders

Major Shareholders (as of March 31, 2005):

Japan Trustee Services Bank, Ltd. ... The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Ltd. ... The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Ltd. ... The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Ltd. ... Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company (明治安田生命保険相互会社; Meiji Yasuda Seimei Hoken Sōgo-kaisha) is a Japanese life insurance company. ... The Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co. ... The State Street Bank and Trust Company is a bank. ... The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Ltd. ... The Mitsubishi Trust and Banking Corporation was a Japanese trust bank. ... The Bank of New York NYSE: BK, founded by Alexander Hamilton in 1784, is the oldest bank in the United States and has a distinguished history of serving clients around the world through its five primary businesses: Securities Servicing and Global Payment Services Private Client Services and Asset Management Corporate...

Clients

This article is about the metro system in Hong Kong. ... An SBS Transit Dennis Trident in Singapore. ... Singapore Changi Airport (Chinese: ; pinyin: ; Malay: ; Tamil: ), or simply Changi Airport (IATA: SIN, ICAO: WSSS) is a major aviation hub in Asia, particularly in the Southeast Asian region, and is the main stop-over point for the kangaroo route with over 3. ... Washington Dulles International Airport (IATA: IAD, ICAO: KIAD) serves the greater Washington, D.C./metropolitan area. ... The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA, TYO: 7661 ) is an aerospace and defense corporation headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. ...

External links

  • Company website (in Japanese)
  • Company website (in English)

  Results from FactBites:
 
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (366 words)
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd (MHI) (三菱重工業, Mitsubishi Jūkōgyō) TYO: 7011 is a Japanese company.
In that year, Yataro Iwasaki, the founder of Mitsubishi took a lease of Government-owned Nagasaki Shipyard.
This shipbuilding business was later turned into Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., and was again launched as Mitsubishi Heavy- Industries, Ltd. in 1934, establishing its position as the largest private firm in Japan, manufacturing ships, heavy machinery, airplanes, and railroad cars.
Mitsubishi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (736 words)
The Mitsubishi group of companies form a loose entity, the Mitsubishi Keiretsu, which is often referenced in US and Japanese media and official reports; in general these companies all descend from the zaibatsu of the same name.
Mitsubishi Bank (now a part of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group) was founded in 1919.
Mitsubishi has been criticized for some of its corporate practices, most notably with respect to work-place discrimination, environmental pollution and the use of slave labour, including that of prisoners of war (POWs), during World War II [2].
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