KYOTO, Japan (Sept. 2, 2015) – Nidec Corporation has acquired full ownership of KB Electronics, Inc. from its founding members through Nidec’s subsidiary, Nidec Americas Holding Corporation.

Nidec is developing new growth platforms in the automotive, appliance, commercial and industrial markets. Beginning with the acquisition of Emerson's motors and controls division in September 2010, the company has expanded its product offerings through acquisition.

KYOTO, Japan (Aug. 3, 2015) – Nidec Corporation announced that Nidec Motor (Qingdao) Corporation (NMQC), its subsidiary company, completed the acquisition of the switched reluctance (SR) motor and drive business of China Tex Mechanical & Electrical Engineering Ltd (China Tex MEE) on July 31 and established a new company incorporating the acquired business.

KYOTO, Japan (June 22, 2015) – Nidec Corporation has announced that it has launched a joint development of a big data analysis technology together with IBM Japan with the main purpose of “improving production ratio via early detection of problems” and “shortening downtime via better factor analysis efficiency” for various production equipment and machinery equipped with the Nidec Group's motors.


KYOTO, Japan (Feb. 2, 2015) – Nidec Corporation has completed the acquisition of all of the shares in Gerate- und Pumpenbau GmbH Dr. Eugen Schmidt ("GPM") from its shareholders, through its subsidiary, Nidec Motors & Actuators (Germany) GmbH (NMA(G)), on Feb. 2, 2015. As a result of the transaction, GPM became a consolidated subsidiary of Nidec. The new subsidiaries are listed below.

KYOTO, Japan (Dec. 11, 2014) – Nidec Corporation has announced that it has agreed to acquire 100 percent of the shares of Gerate- und Pumpenbau GmbH Dr. Eugen Schmidt (GPM) from its shareholders through Nidec’s subsidiary, Nidec Motors & Actuators (Germany) GmbH (NMA(G)). For this purpose, Nidec entered into a share purchase and transfer agreement with each of GPM's shareholders.


KYOTO, Japan (Aug. 1, 2013) – Nidec Corporation announced the status of the company's own share repurchase under its ongoing repurchase plan resolved at a meeting of the board of directors held on January 24, 2013, pursuant to Article 459, Paragraph 1, Item 1 of the company’s Act of Japan.

Details of Share Repurchase:

1. Period of own share repurchase: From July 1, 2013, through July 31, 2013
2. Class of shares: common stock

KUZE MINAMI-KU, KYOTO, Japan (June 1, 2012) – Nidec Corporation completed the acquisition of Ansaldo Sistemi Industriali S.p.A. from HVEASI Holding, B.V. (Netherlands), a privately-owned company affiliated with Patriarch Partners, LLC. As a result, the acquired business, now consisting of the foreign companies listed below, became Nidec’s subsidiary.

The following is an outline of the companies that became Nidec’s new subsidiaries today:

1. Outline of the New Subsidiaries