EIZO

The company changed its name to Nanao Corporation. EIZO entered the gaming market by beginning the manufacture and sale of tabletop video arcade machines. An EIZO table top was used with one of the 20th century's most recognizable arcade games: Space Invaders. EIZO acquired Irem Corporation, a maker and purveyor of software for home and industrial... use. Integrating its hardware and software expertise would become the core of EIZO's business model in the years to come and remains that way today. As the company continued to grow, a new factory was built on a parcel of land adjacent to several acres of rice fields in Hakusan, Japan that later became the company's international headquarters. Capitalizing on a global PC revolution, EIZO decided to expand its business overseas by founding Hitec Associates Ltd. (later renamed Eizo Corporation) in Kanazawa, Japan as a sales subsidiary for the European market. After 17 years as an OEM manufacturer, the company began a new chapter in its history by selling its display monitors under its own name or two names as it turned out. For the North American market, the company founded Nanao USA Corporation in California (now operating as EIZO Inc.) and sold its monitors under the NANAO brand name. In Europe, the company took a different route and chose the brand name "EIZO," which is the Japanese word for "image". The first EIZO/NANAO monitors had 12- or 14-inch screen diagonals as well as a compact design and low weight. Particularly worth mentioning: Back then, the monitors had an ultra-high resolution of 700 pixels x 400 lines, according to a product brochure for the 8040 model . To accommodate continuing growth, EIZO built new global headquarters and a research and development facility in Hakusan, Japan, next to a plant it opened in 1981. The following year, EIZO added a second plant. After seeing its products appear on the shelves of Tokyo electronics stores as "reverse imports," the company began the sale of CRT display monitors for personal computers in its home market of ...Read More