Mitsui
Japanese multinational corporate group
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| February 17 2025 | Fourth Hibiki-class ship (AOS-5204) launched |
| February 2025 | Hosted Royal Navy's Mine and Threat Exploitation Group (MTXG) during International Maritime Exercise 2025 in the Middle East, with MTXG X-Ray Unit 1 and 3 operating REMUS 300 Autonomous Underwater Vehicles and 42 Commando Royal Marines conducting boarding operation training. |
| March 2024 | Fourth Hibiki-class surveillance ship (AOS-5204) laid down |
| December 22 2023 | JIP's purchase of Toshiba was completed, bringing the company back to Japanese ownership after being run by overseas activist investors. |
| September 27 2023 | After the public offering, Toshiba was reported to be transferred to a new parent company, TBJH. |
| July 2023 | Announcement made that Anchor Brewing would shut down and liquidate its assets. |
| March 2023 | Toshiba accepted a buyout offer from a consortium of 20 companies led by Japan Industrial Partners (JIP). |
| November 18 2022 | Mitsukoshi opens its BGC shopping mall location in Taguig, Philippines, expanding its retail presence in the Bonifacio Global City. |
| September 2022 | Sapporo completed a $165 million buyout of Stone Brewing Co., acquiring brewing facilities in Escondido, California and Richmond, Virginia. |
| June 2022 | Sapporo and Stone Brewing announced an agreement for Sapporo to purchase Stone Brewing for $168 million, with the purchase expected to close in August 2022. |
| March 24 2022 | At an extraordinary general meeting, stockholders rejected Toshiba's original plan to split into three companies and an alternative plan from a large institutional investor. |
| February 2022 | Toshiba announced plans to split into two companies after the original proposal was unpopular with shareholders. |
| 2021 | Sony unveiled the Airpeak drone at CES 2021, claiming it as the smallest drone capable of incorporating a Sony Alpha camera, marking the company's independent entry into the drone business. |
| 2021 | Sony transforms into a holding company, transferring the Sony Corporation name to its subsidiary electronics company. |
| November 12 2021 | Toshiba announced plans to split into three separate companies, with an expected completion by March 2024. |
| April 2021 | CVC Capital Partners made a takeover offer to Toshiba. |
| March 4 2021 | Third Hibiki-class ship (AOS-5203) commissioned and entered service |
| 2020 | Sapporo Breweries won the Lausanne Index Prize for Best Packaging. |
| 2020 | Toshiba divested its PC business into Dynabook Inc. |
| October 2020 | Toshiba decided to pull out of the system LSI business due to mounting losses and considered selling its semiconductor fabs. |
| June 30 2020 | Sharp exercised its option to acquire the remaining 19.9% of Dynabook shares from Toshiba. |
| January 2020 | Toshiba unveiled plans to launch quantum cryptography services by September and announced several new technologies for potential commercialization. |
| January 15 2020 | Third Hibiki-class ship (AOS-5203) launched |
| 2019 | Sony Design showcased 'Affinity in Autonomy', a conceptual environmental art installation at the London Design Festival, representing the company's vision for AI and Robotics at the Victoria and Albert Museum. |
| November 2019 | Toshiba transferred its logistics service business to SBS Group. |
| September 15 2019 | Dispatched to the Indian Ocean for maritime training with navies of the region, visiting Bangladesh, India, Malaysia, Maldives, Philippines, and Vietnam. |
| May 2019 | Toshiba announced it would put non-Japanese investors on its board for the first time in nearly 80 years. |
| October 2018 | Third Hibiki-class surveillance ship (AOS-5203) laid down |
| June 2018 | Toshiba sold 80.1% of its Client Solutions (personal computers) business unit to Sharp for $36m, with an option for Sharp to buy the remaining 19.9% share. |
| April 6 2018 | Toshiba completed the sale of Westinghouse's holding company to Brookfield Business Partners for $4.6 billion. |
| 2017 | NEC was ranked #463 on the Fortune 500 list, reflecting its continued global business presence. |
| November 15 2017 | Hisense reached a deal to acquire 95% of Toshiba Visual Solutions for US$113.6 million. |
| September 20 2017 | Toshiba's board approved the sale of its memory chip business to a Bain Capital-led group for US$18 billion, which was later renamed Kioxia. |
| August 3 2017 | Sapporo Breweries announced the acquisition of Anchor Brewing Company. |
| April 25 2017 | Toshiba announced its decision to replace its auditor PricewaterhouseCoopers. |
| April 11 2017 | Toshiba filed unaudited quarterly results without auditor endorsement, stating substantial doubt about the company's ability to continue as a going concern. |
| March 29 2017 | Westinghouse filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, with Toshiba estimated to have a 9 billion dollar annual net loss. |
| February 14 2017 | Toshiba delayed filing financial results and chairman Shigenori Shiga resigned following the revelation of a 390 billion yen corporate-wide loss. |
| January 2017 | Toshiba planned to separate its memory chip division as a strategy to avoid bankruptcy. |
| 2016 | Sony revived its robotics operations after a 10-year hiatus due to previous financial difficulties. |
| December 2016 | Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation was acquired by Canon. The Midea Group also bought a controlling 80.1% stake in the Toshiba Home Appliances Group. |
| December 2016 | Toshiba management called an urgent press briefing to announce significant losses in the Westinghouse subsidiary, which threatened to bankrupt the company. |
| September 2016 | Toshiba announced the first wireless power receiver IC using the Qi 1.2.2 specification, developed with the Wireless Power Consortium. |
| July 1 2016 | Transferred to the 3rd Mine Warfare Force due to reorganization. |
| May 2016 | Satoshi Tsunakawa, former head of Toshiba's medical equipment division, was named CEO following the accounting scandal. |
| April 2016 | Toshiba recalled 100,000 faulty laptop lithium-ion batteries made by Panasonic due to overheating risks, affecting notebooks sold since June 2011. |
| March 2016 | Toshiba prepared to start construction on a new semiconductor plant in Japan, planning to spend approximately 360 billion yen through May 2019 to mass-produce ultra-dense flash chips. |
| January 2016 | Toshiba's security division unveiled a new service bundle for schools using its surveillance equipment, including education discounts and support. |
| 2015 | Sony partnered with ZMP INC. to establish Aerosense, an aerial surveillance and reconnaissance drone manufacturer. |
| December 2015 | CEO Muromachi forecast a record 550 billion yen annual loss and announced the company would not raise funds for two years. A company spokesperson later stated Toshiba would seek 300 billion yen in 2016. |
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