Canon Fact Sheet

Corporate Background  

• Canon Inc. was founded in 1937. Canon Europe was established twenty years later in 1957

• Canon Inc. employs more than 190,000 people worldwide. Canon Europe employs over 11,000 people across 20 local country operations in the EMEA region

• Canon’s consolidated net sales for Canon Inc. for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011 were ¥964.7 billion (US $12,368 million)

• Canon’s consolidated net sales for Canon Inc. for fiscal 2011 totalled ¥3,557 billion (US $45,608 million or €35.2 billion) (January 1, 2011 – December 30, 2011). Dollar amount is translated solely for the convenience of the reader at JPY 78 = US $1 and JPY 101 = 1 euro, the approximate exchange rate on the Tokyo Foreign Exchange market as of December 30, 2011

• Canon Inc. remained profitable in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2011with a net income of ¥61.4 billion ($787,731 million)

• Canon Europe contributes approximately a third of the company’s global revenue, selling to customers in more than 116 countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa 

• Canon’s first European manufacturing site, Canon Giessen GmbH, was established in Germany in 1972

• Canon’s corporate philosophy is encapsulated in the word Kyosei, meaning living and working together for the common good  
  

Brand 

• Canon’s Brand Promise is to help people realise the Power of Image

• The European Brand Strapline, You Can, was launched in 2002 and is designed to inspire and encourage customers to realise the Power of Image

• Canon was ranked 33rd in Interbrand’s 100 Best Global Brands 2011 survey

• Canon has also been awarded Reader’s Digest Most Trusted Camera Brand in Europe for 12 consecutive years

• Canon was ranked 5th in the Fortune World’s Most Admired Companies 2011 Industry ranking (‘Computers’ category) 

 
Sustainability

Canon’s commitment to sustainability is focused in three key areas: Business, Environment and Society

• Business

  • Canon provides its customers with products, services and solutions that support business efficiency and improvement, and wider economic growth

  • Canon has achieved worldwide ISO14001 certification, the international standard for environment management systems

• Environment

  • Canon products are highly energy efficient and almost 100% of our in scope products qualify for the EU ENERGY STAR® Programme

  • Canon started the world’s first toner cartridge recycling programme in 1990

  • Canon reduced CO₂ emissions in EMEA by 3% in 2010 vs. 2009

  • Canon improved 2010 office waste recycling rate in EMEA by more than 10% vs. 2009

• Society

  • We have a multi-cultural environment and marketplace. Canon Europe’s management board of 13 is made up of 6 different nationalities and we run cultural awareness workshops in our European headquarters 

Technology & Innovation

• Canon’s Imaging Engines were created by integrating a series of technologies developed throughout Canon’s history. They are the core technologies in all of Canon’s current products: 

  • Image Capture Engine – High resolution and high image quality for lens, sensor and image processing technologies

  • Electrophotography Engine – Electrophotography technology is at the heart of laser beam printers and copying machines that have been rated as the best in the world

  • Inkjet Engine – Capable of delivering mircroscopic ink droplets as small as one picolitre (one-trillionth of a litre), making even DNA chip fabrication possible

  • Photolithography Engine – Canon’s semiconductor exposure technology integrates the ultimate in optical and ultraprecision positioning technologies

  • Display Engine – Next generation flat screen display technology delivers large screen, high quality images with low power consumption

• Canon to maintain its position as the No.1 manufacturer of DSLRs

• Canon was the inventor of the Bubble Jet method of inkjet printing and introduced the industry’s first cartridge-type copying machine

Sponsorship 

• Canon Europe partners with the Red Cross by supporting youth orientated projects across 13 European countries

• Canon Europe became the first WWF Conservation Partner in Europe, Middle East and Africa in 1998. Since 2007, Canon Europe has sponsored a WWF polar bear tracking programme designed to stop the decline of the polar bear population and raise awareness of the effects of climate change

• Canon Europe has a 30-year history of supporting football, with past and current sponsorships including the following:

  • Official Sponsor of UEFA EURO 2012™

  • Official Sponsor of UEFA EURO 2008™

  • UEFA Cup Final, UEFA Super Cup 2007

  • Russian Premier Football League

  • Africa Cup of Nations 2008

• Canon Europe is the Principal sponsor of the London and Milan Fashion Weeks and is a sponsor of Paris Fashion Week

Research and Development

• In fiscal 2011, the Company invested ¥307.8 billion in R&D, accounting for 8.7% of sales. 

• In 2011, the Company was granted 2,813 patents ** in the United States, placing it third among all corporations

• Canon has ranked among the top 10 U.S patent recipients since 1984 (a 28-year period

• Canon has ranked among the top 5 U.S patent recipients from 1992 to 2011 (a 20-year period)

• Canon has ranked among the top 3 U.S patent recipients in 22 of last 25 years 

* Gfk EU12 Jan-Dec 2010 (volume).

**Source: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; Calculated based upon announcements of weekly totals.