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Canon, a Japanese integrated group of world-leading producers of imaging and information products, has globalized and expanded its business into a variety of fields through years of tireless efforts since its founding in 1937.
Canon's product lineup*** is spread across three main areas: personal products, office equipment and industrial equipment, with major products including cameras and lenses, digital cameras, printers, copiers, fax machines, scanners, broadcasting equipment, medical devices and semiconductor production equipment. Canon is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, and has four regional sales headquarters in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Japan, with 200 subsidiaries around the world, employing more than 100,000 people.On March 9, 2016, Japan's Toshiba held a board of directors meeting and ultimately decided to sell its Toshiba Medical Systems to Canon, which made a takeover offer of JPY700 billion (approx. RMB 40.5 billion).