January 14, 2012
A disassembled Olympus camera and its parts are seen in this illustrative photograph taken in Tokyo November 24, 2011. Private equity firm TPG Capital is willing to invest about $1 billion in Japan’s Olympus Corp in a joint deal with Sony Corp or another suitor circling the scandal-hit firm, a person familiar with TPG’s thinking [...]
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November 3, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Japanese companies rely on smaller companies to produce the parts they build into high-tech products, but they’re finding it hard to find such suppliers. What can Vietnamese businesses supply? Japanese manufacturers and experts are saying that Vietnam needs to learn to produce more of the parts and components that go into the goods assembled [...]
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December 3, 2008
A unit of Canon Inc., the world’s largest camera maker, may spend as much as US$130 million to develop a parts factory in the northern province of Hung Yen to supply its operations in Asia. In November, the provincial industrial zone management board granted Canon Electronics Inc. a license to build the $63.4 million factory, [...]
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TPG willing to invest $1 billion in Olympus
A disassembled Olympus camera and its parts are seen in this illustrative photograph taken in Tokyo November 24, 2011. Private equity firm TPG Capital is willing to invest about $1 billion in Japan’s Olympus Corp in a joint deal with Sony Corp or another suitor circling the scandal-hit firm, a person familiar with TPG’s thinking [...]
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