Olympus Philosophy

A leading manufacturer of professional opto-digital products, Olympus pioneers key technologies in the fields of imaging and voice products, endoscopy, microscopy, bioanalytics and diagnostics.

The Olympus brand stands for

  • innovative opto-digital technologies, outstanding design and top quality
  • intense customer orientation and fast implementation of customers’ wishes and market requirements
  • creativity and originality when developing new products and efficient systems solutions.

“Your Vision, Our Future”

Olympus is a vision realiser: we consistently focus our development capabilities, manufacturing technologies and sales skills on enabling you to realise your dreams for the future.
Olympus is customer oriented: we strive to understand and fulfil your current and future needs and to exceed  your expectations. We achieve this through our efficient management, motivated employees who receive training on a regular basis, and continuous improvement of our processes.
Olympus is innovative and original: our original thinking has already resulted in many firsts. It was Olympus that gave the world its first commercially viable gastroscope. We also led the way in producing lightweight compact cameras. We are delighted to share our excitement and sense of discovery with you.

Company profile

  • This is the parent company of all Olympus’ European subsidiaries and, in addition, it provides the companies listed below with services in the areas of Finance, Human Resources, General Affairs, Corporate Governance, Information Technology, Logistics and Corporate Communications. This umbrella organisation ensures that Olympus management is both uniform and integrated across all its companies. Its management board consists of the Chairman, the CEOs of the operational companies, as well as the President of the European Corporate Centre.
  • Smaller but more powerful lenses, the perfect alignment of lens and camera technology, creative features and elegant design make Olympus cameras desirable. Olympus Imaging Europa GmbH offers a broad range of products encompassing analogue and digital cameras (including the professional Olympus E-System digital SLRs), binoculars, voice recorders and professional voice processing systems.
  • Olympus’ flexible and fixed endoscopes play an impor­tant role in cancer prevention and minimally invasive therapies. The company provides endoscopes and sys­tem solutions for a wide range of medical and surgical applications, as well as reprocessing systems and a wide selection of EndoTherapy accessories.
  • Amalgamating the fields of microscopy and diagnostics, this company covers a wide scope of needs ranging from microscope systems that service all requirements in life and material science, to high-performance analytical systems and reagents for clinical laboratories.
  • The new global Olympus Life Science competence centre in Munich combines research, development and production in the areas of in-vitro diagnostics, laboratory automation and molecular biology, as well as aspects of the fields of digital image processing and microscopy.

Global Corporate Information

Financial Results
Annual Report 2008
Corporate Compliance
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