Olympus completes transfer of imaging business, and OM Digital Solutions takes over

According to official Olympus news, on January 1, 2021, Olympus Co., Ltd. signed the Olympus agreement with Japan Industrial Partners Co., Ltd.

In September this year. The video business transfer contract completed the transfer procedure.

After the transfer, OM Digital Solutions Corporation will inherit the Olympus imaging business.

The sales planning and research and development departments for image products will be transferred to the headquarters of OM Digital Solutions.

OM Digital Solutions’ imaging products will continue to be produced at the factory in Dong Nai Province, Vietnam.

The imaging products originally produced and sold by Olympus will be supported by OM Digital Solutions in the future.

Olympus Representative Executive Officer, President, and Chief Executive Officer Yasuo Takeuchi stated that since the release of Olympus’s first camera ‘Semi-Olympus I’m in 1936, the imaging business has always been the main force of Olympus in multiple senses. cause.

We believe that after the imaging business is transferred to OM Digital Solutions, it will continue to grow and develop in the future.

After the transfer of the video business, Olympus will focus on the management of medical and scientific businesses, including the new look of a global medical technology company, with the mission of ‘realizing the health, peace of mind and happy life of the people of the world’ as its mission for customers from all over the world Provide products and services.

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