History 2001-2005

Acquired additional 25% of Fuji Xerox's outstanding shares, increasing the shareholding in that company to 75% and transforming that company into a consolidated subsidiary

FUJIFILM Digital Imaging Products (SUZHOU) Co., Ltd., established in Suzhou, China, as a joint venture with Suzhou Machinery Holdings (Group) Co., Ltd.

China-based Fuji Photo Film (China) Investment Co., Ltd. (currently FUJIFILM (China) Investment Co., Ltd.), established as a holding company for operations in China

FUJIFILM Opto Materials Co., Ltd., established to manufacture the LCD-related film products FUJITAC and WV Film

Netherlands-based Fuji Photo Film B.V. (currently FUJIFILM Manufacturing Europe B.V.) began manufacturing graphic arts films

U.S.-based Enovation Graphic Systems, Inc. (a graphic arts materials marketing company, currently FUJIFILM Graphic Systems U.S.A, Inc.), established

FUJIFILM STARLIGHT CO., LTD., began manufacturing and marketing PS plates

U.S.-based Fuji Photo Film, Inc. (currently FUJIFILM Manufacturing U.S.A., Inc.) expanded its manufacturing facilities, began the integrated manufacture of medical-use films, and created a new factory for the manufacture of CTP plates

FUJIFILM Opto Materials Co., Ltd., began manufacturing FUJITAC

Acquired additional shares in Process Shizai Co., Ltd., (currently FUJIFILM Graphic Systems Co., Ltd.), transforming that company into a consolidated subsidiary

Logistics companies of Fujifilm and Fuji Xerox integrated as FUJIFILM LOGISTICS CO., LTD.

Shigetaka Komori became president and CEO, and new management system initiated

Fujicolor Service Co., Ltd., and Fujicolor Trading Co., Ltd., merged to create Fujicolor Imaging Service Co., Ltd.

VISION75 Medium-term Management Plan announced

Offering of the Company's shares executed

Acquired 100% of shares in Hanimex Australasia Pty Ltd. (a distributor covering Australia and New Zealand, currently FUJIFILM Holdings Australasia Pty Ltd.)

Chiyoda Medical Co., Ltd., merged into FUJIFILM MEDICAL CO., LTD.

FUJIFILM Battery Co., Ltd., merged into FUJIFILM AXIA Co., Ltd.

FUJIFILM MEDICAL CO., LTD., and Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation reached agreement on marketing cooperation in the medical-use picture archiving and communications systems field and signed a business alliance contract

Investment made in U.S.-based TeraRecon, Inc., a start-up company engaged in R&D, manufacturing, and marketing operations related to image-processing technologies, mainly in the medical field

Business alliance arranged with Sysmex Corporation regarding the marketing in China of the FUJI DRI-CHEM System, a compact dry-biochemistry testing system

Xerography-based digital camera printing system cooperatively developed by Fujifilm and Fuji Xerox (incorporated in multi-use copy machines installed at Seven-Eleven convenience stores for use as multi-use copy machines)

Fujifilm stock trading unit size reduced from 1,000 shares to 100 shares

FUJIFILM IMAGING Co., Ltd., established. Fujicolor Imaging Service Co., Ltd., and FUJIFILM AXIA Co., Ltd., merged into the new company, which also took over the domestic marketing operations of four major photographic product distributors to unify the Fujifilm Group's domestic imaging solutions marketing operations

Acquired microelectronic materials business of U.S.-based Arch Chemicals, Inc., along with 100% of shares in joint venture FUJIFILM ARCH Co., Ltd. (currently FUJIFILM Electronics Materials Co., Ltd.)

Acquired U.K.-based Sericol Group Limited (currently FUJIFILM Sericol Limited), a company with expanding operations in screen printing inks, packaging printing inks, and industrial-use inkjet printer inks

FUJIFILM Kyushu Co., Ltd., established to focus on the manufacture of FUJITAC

Executed share buy-back (from February 1 through March 18)

Joined the Cosmos Alliance (an international organization that encourages technology exchanges to promote the commercialization of leading-edge technologies in the biolife-science field) and made investments in U.S.-based start-up companies

FUJIFILM TECHNO PRODUCTS CO., LTD., established through the merger of five Fujifilm Group equipment manufacturing companies

FUJI PHOTO FILM PRINTING PLATE (SUZHOU) CO., LTD. (currently FUJIFILM Printing Plate (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.), established as a PS plate/CTP plate manufacturing company based in Suzhou, China

FUJIFILM Starlight GRAPHIC SYSTEMS (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD., established as a printing equipment and materials marketing company based in Shanghai, China

FUJIFILM Electronic Materials (Suzhou) Co., Ltd., established as an electronic materials manufacturing company based in Suzhou, China

Additional investment made in LCD-use polarizing plate manufacturer Sanritz Corporation, increasing Fujifilm's total shareholding in that company to 30%

FUJIFILM CMIC HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd., established as a joint venture with CMIC Co., Ltd.

Ashigara and Odawara factories organizationally integrated as the Kanagawa Factory

Acquired Arch Chemicals, Inc.'s 50% shareholding in U.S.-based Planar Solutions, LLC, which is engaged in the development and manufacture of semiconductor-use chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) slurries