| Pioneer Corporation provides value-added electronics products worldwide for consumer and business use. It engages in the design, development, manufacture, and sale of electronics products, such as audio, video, and car electronics. The companys Home Electronics segment offers digital versatile discs (DVD) players, DVD recorders, recordable DVD drives, DVD-ROM drives, home-use plasma displays, projection TVs, stereo systems, individual stereo components, equipment for cable-TV systems, digital broadcast set-top boxes, and telephones. Pioneers Car Electronics segment provides car stereos, car AV systems, car speakers, and car navigation systems. Its Patent Licensing segment engages in licensing of patents related to laser optical disc technologies. The companys Others segment offers products primarily for business use, such as business-use plasma displays, business-use AV systems, OLED display panels, factory automation systems, and devices and parts. Pioneer offers products through sales offices in Japan; and through sales subsidiaries and independent distributors outside Japan. In addition, on an original equipment manufacturer basis, it markets car electronics products, recordable DVD drives, digital broadcast set-top boxes, and OLED displays to other companies. Pioneer primarily offers its products in Japan, North America, Europe, and Asia. The company was founded by Nozomu Matsumoto in 1938 as Fukuin Shokai Denki Seisakusho and changed its name to Pioneer Electronic Corporation in June 1961. Further, it changed name to Pioneer Corporation in June 1999. Pioneer is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. |
