Canon
Imaging and printing equipment · Japan
Canon makes printers, office machines, cameras, medical imaging systems and semiconductor lithography equipment, and sells them through its own sales companies around the world.
What makes it different
Canon is mostly a printing company, not a camera maker.
53.9%Printing share of net salesFY2025
Printers and office machines bring in more than twice the sales of cameras and other imaging products.
How big it is
How big is Canon?
¥4.62TRevenueFY2025
165,547Employees2025
80KPatents2025
How it makes money FY2025
More than half is printing.
- Printing54%¥2.49T
- Imaging23%¥1.05T
- Medical13%¥580B
- Industrial8%¥358B
- Others and Corporate3%¥145B
How the business works
Own the optics, sell direct, supply the machine.
- 1Printers, cameras, scanners
- 2Own sales companies per region
- 3Consumables and parts
Canon subsidiaries also make consumables and parts for Canon machines, supporting sales after the machine is sold.
Who owns it
- The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Ltd. (trust account)17.59%
- Custody Bank of Japan, Ltd. (trust account)6.15%
- Mizuho Bank, Ltd.2.57%
CEO: Fujio Mitarai
Who it competes with
Key moments
- 1933Precision Optical Instruments Laboratory founded
- 1949Listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
- 1968NP System and plain-paper copiers
- 1970Semiconductor lithography equipment
- 1981Bubble-jet recording technology
Sources
Every number on this page comes from Canon's own reports.
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What Canon tracks23 metrics
Employees
Patents and utility models held
Years in the U.S. top 10 by patent registrations
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Where the money comes from4 regions
Americas
Europe
Japan
The full timeline21 moments
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