| |  | | |  | Corporate data |  | | Name of company | CKD Corporation | | Establishment | April 2, 1943 | | Paid-in Capital | 11,016 million yen | | Employee number | 2,155 [Non-Consolidated]
3,472 [Consolidated]  (September 30,2007) | | Annual sales | 89,135 million yen [Non-Consolidated]
93,705 million yen [Consolidated] (ended March 31, 2008) | | Line of business | Development, manufacture, sales and export of automatic machinery, labor-saving components, pneumatic valves, pneumatic cylinders, pneumatic auxiliary components, fine system components, fluid control components and other functional components. | | Address of the head office | 2-250, Ouji, Komaki, Aichi,485-8551, Japan
 Tel : 0568-77-1111 | | | |  | History |  | | 1943 | Apr.: | Established under the name of "Japan Aircraft Electric Co., Ltd." in Nagoya, capitalized at 10 million yen. Started the manufacture and sales of aviation-related electric parts, etc. for airplanes. |  | | 1945 | Oct.: | Renamed to "Chukyo Electric Co., Ltd." for the manufacture, repair and sales of electric machines and tools. |  | | 1947 | May: | Started the manufacture of lamp manufacturing machines |  | | 1956 | Dec.: | Started the mass production of various solenoids, pneumatic cylinders and valves.
Established component division, in addition to machinery division. |  | | 1961 | Jun.: | Constructed and moved to a new factory in Komaki City, Aichi Prefecture. |  | | 1962 | Oct.: | Listed stocks on the Second Section of the Nagoya Stock exchange. |  | | 1971 | Feb.: | Listed stocks on the First Section of the Nagoya Stock exchange |  | | 1979 | Jul.: | Renamed to "CKD Corporation" | | | Nov.: | Listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange |  | | 1985 | Oct.: | Established "CKD USA Corporation" in U.S.A. |  | | 1988 | May: | Established "CKD Thai Corporation" in Thailand. |  | | 1995 | Oct.: | Established new corporate identity, logo, color and communication name. |  | | 2000 | Jan.: | Merged CKD Control Limited. | | | Oct.: | Merged CKD Seiki Limited and CKD Precision Limited. |  | | 2001 | Oct.: | Established "CKD (Shanghai) Corporation" in China. |  | | 2002 | Aug.: | Established "CKD Korea Corporation" in Korea. |  | | 2003 | Jan.: | Merged domestic sales subsidiaries. | | | Jan.: | Established "CKD (China) Corporation" in China. | | | Dec.: | Established "CKD Corporation Europe Branch" in the Netherlands. |  | | 2007 | Apr.: | Established "Taiwan CKD Corporation" in Taiwan. |  | | UP | Board of Directors (As of June 28, 2007) |  | President | Masanori Ishida | Executive Vice President | Kiyoshi Honda | Senior Vice President | Kazunori Kajimoto | Senior Vice President | Masaaki Kishio | Corporate Excutive Officer | Tadashi Uchimura | Corporate Excutive Officer | Tsuyoshi Kanada | Director | Hideo Iwasaki | Director | Hiroyoshi Ikeda | Standing Auditor | Akira Sakai | Auditor | Shozo Takahashi | Auditor | Yoshio Ienaka | Auditor | Shikio Hasegawa | Corporate Officer | Yoshinari Ogasawara | Corporate Officer | Kenji Kondo | Corporate Officer | Masahiro Nagamatsu | Corporate Officer | Masahiro Kubooka | Corporate Officer | Koji Niwa | Corporate Officer | Nobuo Shibata | Corporate Officer | Hisaji Koshin | Corporate Officer | Hirofumi Mizuno | Corporate Officer | Masahiko Tsukahara | | | | Major stockholders (As of March 31, 2007) |  | Japan Trustee Services Bank, Ltd.(trust account) The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Ltd.(trust account) The Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Company Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co., Ltd. Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Japan Trustee Services Bank, Ltd.(trust account 4) Company's stock holding association Sumitomo Life Insurance Company Nippon Life Insurance Company The Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. | | | | |  |
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