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Originally posted by clackers Bizarre, Wheatfield. It's *always* been a brand name.
And up until Hoya bought the company the Pentax name was also the name of a company.
Pentax now exists as a rump brand name of Ricoh for cameras and Hoya for medical equipment.
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There's a centenary celebration happening this year, and the brand name has only also been the company name for five of those years!
Will the President of Pentax Corp be at the party? How about the CEO, CFO, and Board if Directors?
What were their names again? The least you could finish educate me regarding the corporate structure of Pentax and tell me where the head office of Pentax Corp is.
What is bizarre is pretending that a company that was broken up and sold a decade ago is still a stand alone company.
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Originally posted by MarkJerling The company founded in 1919, Asahi Kogaku Goshi Kaisha was renamed Asahi Optical Co. Ltd in 1938. The name "Pentax" was a brand name for much of the company's history. Only in 2002 the company was renamed Pentax Corporation. In August 2007 the company became a subsidiary of Hoya. Pentax merged with Hoya on 31 March 2008. In 2011, Hoya transferred its Pentax Imaging Systems business to a newly established subsidiary called Pentax Imaging Corporation. On 1 October, 2011, Ricoh purchased Pentax Imaging Corp. and renamed the new subsidiary Pentax Ricoh Imaging Company, Ltd. On 1 August 2013 the company name was changed to Ricoh Imaging Company Ltd.
You are correct in that Pentax is a brand, not a company. But, that was actually the case for much of it's existence. Any company with the name 'Pentax' is actually a fairly recent thing.
Pentax has never gone out of business. The company has changed ownership and has been absorbed and split off over the years and renamed several times. For much of Pentax's existence, it was a brand name, from first use in 1957 of the pre-existing Pentax brand name which was originally registered as a trademark by VEB Pentacon, the East German branch of Zeiss Ikon. So, from 1957 to 2002 it was a brand name. From 2002, it was both a brand name and a company name until 2013, when it again became a brand name only.
Pentax was a brand name of a stand alone company. Eventually, Pentax became the name of that company.
In 2007 that company ceased to exist and its brand names were taken over by another company.
If Pentax is still a company, I will ask of you the same thing I asked of Clackers.
Who is the President of Pentax? Who is the CEO and CFO?
Who is on the Board if Directors of Pentax Corp? Where is the head office located?
If the answer to these questions all lead back to Ricoh.......