Toshiba
1875 Founded (renamed Tanaka Works in 1882. Forerunner of Shibaura Works Co., Ltd.) 1890 Established Bairesha (Tokyo Incandescent Light Bulb Manufacturing Co., Ltd.) 1896 Tokyo Incandescent Light Bulb Manufacturing Co., Ltd. established (renamed Tokyo Electric Co., Ltd. in 1899) 1904Shibaura Manufacturing Co., Ltd. established 1939Shibaura Works and Tokyo Electric Co., Ltd. merged to form Tokyo Shibaura Electric Co., Ltd. 1942Shibaura Mazda Co., Ltd. and Nippon Medical Electric Co., Ltd. merged to expand the manufacturing of home appliances 1943 Merged with Tokyo Electric Co., Ltd. (formerly Tokyo Electric Radio Co., Ltd.) and Toyo Refractory Brick Co., Ltd. to expand the manufacture of communication equipment products (Yanagachi Plant, Komukai Plant) 1950 According to the corporate restructuring plan, 15 factories and 1 research institute were separated from 43 factories and 2 research institutes to reorganize 14 affiliated companies (including Tokyo Electric Tool Co., Ltd. (now Toshiba Tec Corporation)). Ten factories were sold and 1 research institute was closed. The new system of 17 factories and 1 research institute began full-scale operations. 1950Merged with Toshiba Vehicle Corporation and expanded the manufacturing of vehicle products 1955Merged with the Electric Power Companys prime mover manufacturing plant and expanded the production of waterwheel products. 1961Merged with Ishikawajima Shibaura Steam Turbine Co., Ltd. and expanded steam turbine manufacturing (steam turbine factory) 1961Toshiba Science Museum opens 1975Celebrating the 100th anniversary 1984New headquarters "Toshiba Building" completed 1984Changed its name to Toshiba Corporation Year 1999Internal company system 2001Moved the head office from Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture to Minato-ku, Tokyo Year 2003 Introduced the "committee company" system (now the "designated committee company") year 2004Join the United Nations Global Compact year 2006Acquired Westinghouse Electric Company Year 2009Accepted the transfer of the hard disk device business from Fujitsu Limited 2012Toshiba Tec accepts transfer of retail store solutions business from IBM of the United States year 2013 Completion of the LAZONA Kawasaki Toshiba Building Year 2014Toshiba Science Museum opens as Toshiba Science Museum 2016Transferred all shares of Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation (now Canon Medical Systems, Inc.) 2016Transferred 80.1% of Toshiba Life Products Corporations shares to China Midea Group Co., Ltd. 2017 As Westinghouse Electric and its affiliates applied for Chapter 11 of the U.S. Federal Bankruptcy Code and initiated reorganization procedures, Westinghouse Electric and its affiliates are no longer members of the Toshiba Group. 2017 Opened the "Hydrogen Energy Utilization Center" at the Fuchu Office 2017Separation of internal companies into independent companies 2017Transferred from the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the Nagoya Stock Exchange to the Second Section 2018 Release of Toshiba Next Plan 2018Transferred 95% of Toshiba Visual Solutions Corporation (currently TVS REGZA Corporation) shares to China Hisense Group 2018Transferred all shares of the former Toshiba Memory Corporation 2018 Transferred 80.1%% of Toshiba Customer Solutions Corporation (currently Dynabook Co., Ltd.) shares to Sharp Corporation (19.9%% of Toshiba Customer Solutions Corporation shares were transferred to Sharp Corporation in August 2020) 2021Transferred from the Second Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the Nagoya Stock Exchange to the First Section 2022Transfer of shares of Toshiba Carrier Corporation