Kyocera Group

May 26, 2012

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Kyocera Group Company Summary

Kyocera Group (TSE: 6971/ NYSE: KYO) comprises of over 170 companies around the world, has approximately 58,000 employees, and had consolidated sales of 1,140 billion yen in March 2004. Currently, the company has a wide range of businesses including fine ceramics and other electronic parts, solar powered batteries, mobile phone terminals, and PHS phone terminals and cell stations. In recent years, Kyocera has been focusing on three industrial fields of "communication information", "environment conservation", and "lifestyle" as target markets for the 21 century, and concentration of group's management resources in these fields is proving Kyocera's comprehensive strengths. Communication information industry market is an important field in supporting a ubiquitous network which evolves rich communication, and Kyocera comprehensively provides various tools including parts, equipments, services, and network.

COMPANY DATA

	Headquarters	6 Takeda Tobadono-cho, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto 612-8501, JAPAN

	Telephone	+81-75-604-3500

	Fax	+81-75-604-3501

	CEO	Yasuo Nishiguchi

	Principal Sector	Nanotechnology

	Principal Industry	Electronics & Equipment

	Employees	13,937

	Homepage	global.kyocera.com/

Key Developments: Kyocera Group

	Asian Markets Overview of April 1: Tokyo Gas (TYO:9531) to Join BG Group's (LON:BG) LNG Project in Australia APR 1, 2010 13:30 - Article Views: 5,113 Wall Street overnight fell on the unexpected drop of the private sector employment data, which raised investors' concern over the key nonfarm payroll figures to be released on Friday. Asian markets were mostly lower Wednesday. Japan's Nikkei index closed slightly lower with a 0.1 per cent fall on the last day of the current fiscal year for most Japanese companies. China's Shanghai Composite and Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index both lost 0.6 per cent. Today China is due to release PMI figures for the manufacturing sector.

	Asian Markets Overview of January 11 JAN 11, 2010 13:30 - Article Views: 5,412 US stocks was slightly higher on Friday, hitting at least 15-month closing highs despite a bigger-than-expected job loss data. US dollar was lowered on the disappointing payroll data. This week the US firms, which are widely expected to show significant improvement compared to the corresponding period last year, will kick off the quarterly earnings reporting season.

	Asian Markets Overview of March 10 MAR 10, 2009 15:00 - Article Views: 5,117 Most Asian markets declined on Monday. Japan's Nikkei average tumbled 1.2% to a 26-year low, while Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index slumped 4.8%, the sharpest fall in the major indexes in Asia. China's Shanghai Composite was down 3.4%. But South Korea's Kospi ended 1.6% higher lifted by technology and shipbuilding sectors.