Tag Archives: Japan Industrial Partners and Olympus

Japan Industrial Partners, owners of Olympus, to buy also Toshiba

By PR admin | Published: August 12, 2023

Japan Industrial Partners, owners of the Olympus camera business, agreed to buy Toshiba:

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Olympus has completed the transfer to Japan Industrial Partners (JIP)

By PR admin | Published: January 4, 2021

Olympus has completed the camera division transfer to Japan Industrial Partners (JIP). The new website will be located at om-digitalsolutions.com and will be live tomorrow (notice they no longer use the Olympus name): “Olympus Corporation (“Olympus”) concluded the transfer of its Imaging business to Japan Industrial Partners Inc. (“JIP”) on January 1, 2021. The final transfer […]

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Olympus Imaging’s cumulative operating losses significantly bigger than originally reported

By PR admin | Published: November 15, 2020

We already knew that Olympus Imaging’s cumulative operating losses during the last twelve years totaled ¥103bn. That’s $1.2bn. Last week Olympus published their consolidated financial results for the second quarter of FY2021 (July – September 2020). Included in this reporting is the forecast of the FY2021 loss from the soon to be divested Imaging Business, now considered […]

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The Olympus brand does not appear to be part of the JIP deal

By PR admin | Published: October 7, 2020

Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia: “Japan Industrial Partners will not use the Olympus brand.” Olympus interview with 42 West: “The Olympus name will remain at the time of transfer. The name will likely not be used forever, but this decision will be made in the final agreement between Olympus and JIP.” Olympus on Twitter: “You can […]

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Future cameras from the new OM Digital Solutions Corporation will keep the Olympus name

By PR admin | Published: October 1, 2020

A quick update to my post from yesterday – Olympus confirmed that future cameras from the new OM Digital Solutions Corporation will keep the Olympus name: Thanks Steve! Some additional information on the JIP/Olympus transfer:

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There is no coming back: Olympus agrees on the transfer of Imaging Business to JIP

By PR admin | Published: September 30, 2020

Today Olympus officially agreed on the transfer of their Imaging Business to Japan Industrial Partners (JIP). The name of the new company will be “OM Digital Solutions Corporation” – this is pretty much the only new information provided. Similar to previous interviews and press releases, many questions remain unanswered and it’s still not even clear if […]

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Japan Industrial Partners acquisition of Olympus’s imaging business

By PR admin | Published: September 10, 2020

Toyo Keizai Online published an Interesting interview with Shinichi Inagaki, the managing director at Japan Industrial Partners (JIP) in charge of the acquisition of Olympus’s imaging business: https://toyokeizai.net/articles/-/374348 https://toyokeizai.net/articles/-/374348?page=2 https://toyokeizai.net/articles/-/374348?page=3 Here below a quick and dirty translation (thanks Mistral75):

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New Olympus interviews raise more questions than answers

By PR admin | Published: July 18, 2020

Olympus is attempting damage control by giving several interviews to different online outlets, but after reading through all of them, I am still left with more questions than answers. Here are a few quotes:

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