Toshiba

About Toshiba

Toshiba a multinational conglomerate manufacturing company, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan whose main business is in Infrastructure, Consumer Products, and Electronic devices and components. For more than 150 years, Toshiba has been a market leader among Japan's largest industrial enterprises, and is known around the world for cutting edge televisions, portable PCs, DVD players and drives, and supporting electronic devices. With technologies pouring in from more than thirty separate laboratories and over 300 subsidiary companies around the world, we have a towering profile and a technology leadership that has resulted in many world firsts.

Despite their global reputation for excellence in research and development, Toshiba works with other global brands to stay at the forefront of development and be present in key business markets. Panasonic, Samsung, Sony and IBM are among the companies that they have recently formed alliances with.

Toshiba works in promoting safe record-breaking high-speed transport and this is demonstrated in the fact that they supply over 70% of the key electrics in Tsubame, the Kyushu bullet train. They also provide the world's fastest elevators in the world's tallest building, the Taipei Financial Centre Two which reach an incredible speed of 1000 metres per minute. They are also one of the largest semiconductor manufacturers in the world, and are the inventors and world leaders in NAND flash memory. The company also holds more technology patents than any other PC vendor and is the world's fifth largest personal computer manufacturer.

Toshiba has been making efforts to lessen their impact on the environment, and they tied for first place in Greenpeace's seventh edition of its Guide to Greener Electronics. Toshiba received 7.7 points out of ten points possible, showing its dedication to recycling and responsible chemical use. Toshiba also partnered with China's Tsinghua University in 2008 in order to form a research facility to focus on energy conservation and the environment.

The Toshiba UK website presents all their varied home products well with detailed information on each. There is no retail facility, however, and each product is linked to retailers such as Currys for customers to purchase the products.

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