Epson

Seiko Epson Corporation

Epson's corporate headquarters in Suwa, Nagano
Trade name	Epson
Native name	セイコーエプソン株式会社
Romanized name	Seikō Epuson Kabushiki-gaisha
Company type	Public (K.K.)
Traded as	TYO: 6724
Industry	Electronics
Founded	May 18, 1942; 82 years ago (1942-05-18) (as Daiwa Kogyo, Ltd.)
Headquarters	Suwa, Nagano[1] , Japan (Officially registered in Shinjuku, Tokyo)
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Minoru Usui [jp] (Chairman & Director) Yasunori Ogawa [jp] (President, CEO & Representative Director)
Products	Printers personal computers robots projectors watches smartglasses semiconductors
Revenue	¥1.129 trillion (2021) (US$9.231 billion)[2]
Number of employees	77,642 (2022)[2]
Divisions	Orient Watch
Website	corporate.epson

Seiko Epson Corporation, commonly known as Epson,^[3] is a Japanese multinational electronics company and one of the world's largest manufacturers of printers and information- and imaging-related equipment. Headquartered in Suwa, Nagano, Japan,^[4] the company has numerous subsidiaries worldwide and manufactures inkjet, dot matrix, thermal and laser printers for consumer, business and industrial use, scanners, laptop and desktop computers, video projectors, watches, point of sale systems, robots and industrial automation equipment, semiconductor devices, crystal oscillators, sensing systems and other associated electronic components.

The company has developed as one of manufacturing and research and development (formerly known as Seikosha) of the former Seiko Group, a name traditionally known for manufacturing Seiko timepieces. Seiko Epson was one of the major companies in the Seiko Group, but is neither a subsidiary nor an affiliate of Seiko Group Corporation.