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COMPANY HISTORY
| 1948 |
Founded Chiyoda Stationary as
a wholesale stationer. |
| 1959 |
Renamed PLUS Corporation. |
| 1963 |
PLUS Industrial Co., Ltd. was established. |
| 1967 |
Head Offices moved to present location. |
| 1972 |
Established the logo of PLUS Corporation. |
| 1980 |
PLUS U.S.A. Corporation was established.
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| 1983 |
Founded the institute of office environment. |
| 1985 |
Incorporated Taiwan PLUS Corporation. |
| 1990 |
PLUS U.S.A. Corporation was reestablished
as PLUS Corporation of America |
| 2000 |
PLUS Corp. of America
acquires Lightware, Inc., a Beaverton, Oregon based innovator
of portable projectors and presentation systems. |
| 2002 |
PLUS
Corp. of America purchases the liquidated assets of Lightware,
Inc. to form one company:
PLUS Vision Corp. of America. |
Headquartered in Allendale, New Jersey, and
Beaverton, Oregon, PLUS Vision Corporation of America manufactures
and markets both extremely sophisticated and affordable ultra-lightweight,
ultra-portable digital projectors under the PLUS brand name. We also
manufacture and market full featured PLUS brand electronic copyboards
and real-time interactive whiteboards. Featuring an unprecedented
level and range of performance options, PLUS communication and information
products are designed to provide a high degree of value to today's
mobile professionals, including corporate presenters, medical and
legal professionals, educators, trainers, military/government professionals,
and technical consultants.
Parent company PLUS Corporation is a 50-year-old company with consolidated
revenue of $1.5 billion from its presentation, office and communications
products. In 1998, PLUS created the Presentation and Communications
Division to handle R&D and marketing for its electro-optical product
line. That was also the year that PLUS began selling its first projector
based on DLPT technology, the UP-800, the world's first sub-10-pound
projector, combining the Digital Light Processing technology developed
by Texas Instruments with PLUS Corp.'s unique optical technologies.
At about that same time, the projector market began its rapid growth,
fueled by increasing demand for smaller, lighter, better-performing
presentation products for conference rooms, mobile presentations,
schools and other applications. PLUS leads in the advancement of this
trend with the development of a series of groundbreaking projectors
that were progressively smaller and lighter, yet able to deliver higher
brightness levels. What's more, these new size, weight, and brightness
levels were achieved without sacrificing any of the performance features
customers have come to rely upon.
Following up the breakthrough UP-800 was the UP-1100, at the time
the world's lightest XGA projector to feature DLP technology. In 1999,
PLUS again broke the weight barrier with the U2 series projectors.
At six pounds each, they once again gave PLUS the lightweight crown.
That record was quickly broken, however, when the following year PLUS
introduced the three-pound U3 Series projectors. In 2002 the company
remained true to its reputation, introducing the V-Series, the world's
first two-pound Digital Light ProcessingT technology-enabled projectors,
and the world's smallest and lightest home theater projector, the
Piano HE-3100. Throughout this time, PLUS projectors received a series
of design awards, including Germany's IF Design Award, Japan's Good
Design Award three years in a row, and most recently, the 2002 International
Consumer Electronics Show Innovations Award.
Mr. S. Mark Hand, who has served as President of Lightware since
the company was acquired by PLUS in December 2000, became PLUS Vision
Corp. of America's Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Business
Products Group. He will continue to be based in Beaverton, Oregon,
where Lightware was founded in 1995 to deliver affordable, portable
projection technology for large and small businesses, mobile professionals,
as well as the education and government markets. The Oregon office
will now serve as the headquarters for PLUS' Business Products
Group.
In May 2001, to further strengthen the company's position in the
rapidly expanding projector market, the PLUS Presentation and Communication
Division was established as an independent company, PLUS Vision
Corp. As of January 2002, the American components of PLUS and PLUS
Corporation of America merge as well as purchase the liquidated
assets of Lightware, Inc. to form PLUS Vision Corp. of America.
According to PLUS Vision Corp. of America President & Chief Executive
Officer Tom Oishi: "The integration of PLUS Corporation of America
and Lightware into one North American sales, marketing and support
unit will allow us to more efficiently market our presentation products.
This will result in greater levels of performance value and support
for our growing and expanding North and South American customer base."
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