Hoya Corporation

Hoya Corporation specialises in the manufacture and commercialisation of optical products. Net sales break down by business segment as follows: - health (66%): manufacturing of health care products (75.4% of sales; eyeglass lenses and contact lenses) and medical products (24.6%; endoscopes, medical accessories, intraocular lenses, artificial bones and metal implants for orthopedics); - information technology (33.1%): manufacturing of electronic products (78.2% of sales; photomasks for semiconductors, masks and devices for LCD screens and hard disks) and imaging products (21.8%; optical lenses, optical glasses and laser equipment); - other (0.9%). Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Japan (28.9%), China (8.2%), Asia (24.7%), Europe (19.3%), the United States (15.1%), the Americas (2.4%) and others (1.4%).