{"id":1223,"date":"2007-10-29T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/hoya-corporation-and-pentax-corporation-merged\/"},"modified":"2007-10-29T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-29T08:00:00","slug":"hoya-corporation-and-pentax-corporation-merged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/hoya-corporation-and-pentax-corporation-merged\/","title":{"rendered":"HOYA Corporation and PENTAX Corporation, Merged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the merger, based on the common core technological foundation in optics, imaging, and materials, the new company will optimize its business portfolios, focusing on the life care, optics, information technology, eye care,<br \/>\nimaging system areas. All PENTAX business divisions will be optimized within the same framework of the HOYA&#8217;s other business divisions to strengthen its business. By doing so, better communication, prompt management decision, and proper resource allocation will be assured. We continue to devote our efforts to make even more outstanding the PENTAX brand even after the merger.<\/p>\n<p>PENTAX promises to provide more satisfactory products and service to our customers. So, we will ask your continuous support to PENTAX Corporation and the HOYA Corporation following the merger.<\/p>\n<p>Yours Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Nobuaki Tanishima<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPresident<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPENTAX Corporation<br \/>\n<br \/>\n2-36-9,Maeno-cho<br \/>\n<br \/>\nItabashi-ku<br \/>\n<br \/>\nTokyo 174-8639,Japan<br \/>\n<br \/>\nTEL: 81-3-3960-5151<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFAX: 81-3-3960-5226<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pentaximaging.com\/footer\/news_media_article?ArticleId=10375275\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nLETTER TO PENTAX CUSTOMERS<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n<!--\nch_client = \"masterchong\";\nch_width = 300;\nch_height = 250;\nch_non_contextual = 1;\nch_nosearch = 1 ;\nch_default_category = \"7185\";\nch_font_title = \"Tahoma\";\nch_font_text = \"Tahoma\";\nch_sid = \"markiii\";\nvar ch_queries = new Array( \"Pentak k10d\" );\nvar ch_selected=Math.floor((Math.random()*ch_queries.length));\nif ( ch_selected < ch_queries.length ) {\nch_query = ch_queries[ch_selected];\n}\n\/\/--><\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/scripts.chitika.net\/eminimalls\/mm.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n<!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3613451236603523\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\n\/\/2007-07-07: content\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"5575075088\";\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\ngoogle_color_bg = \"F0F0F0\";\ngoogle_color_link = \"0000FF\";\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\ngoogle_color_url = \"008000\";\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n{mos_ri}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/masterchong.com\/v2\/images\/stories\/pentaxlogo.gif\" style=\"float: right;\" hspace=\"6\" alt=\"Image\" title=\"Image\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<b>LETTER TO PENTAX CUSTOMERS<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To our customers,<\/p>\n<p>On October 29, 2007, HOYA Corporation and PENTAX Corporation, a consolidated subsidiary of HOYA announced that we have entered into a merger agreement with respect to a merger which will become effective on March 31, 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[6324,3671],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates","tag-pentax","tag-pentax-corporation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.masterchong.com\/v4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}