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2000-
Jan. 2000 Mita Corp. is reorganized to become Kyocera Mita Corp.
Feb. 2000 Kyocera Wireless Corp. is established in California, U.S.A.
Oct. 2000 DDI Corp., KDD Corp., and IDO Corp. merge to form DDI Corp. (now KDDI Corp.)
Jan. 2001 Tycom Corp. (now Kyocera Tycom Corp.) joins the Kyocera Group.
May 2001 Kyocera Group sales for the year ending March 31, 2001 break the 1 trillion yen threshold.
Apr. 2002 Printer operations are merged with Kyocera Mita Corp.
Aug. 2002 Toshiba Chemical Corp. is reorganized to become Kyocera Chemical Corp.
Jan. 2003 Kyocera (Tianjin) Sales & Trading Corp. is established in China.
May 2003 Kyocera (Tianjin) Solar Energy Co., Ltd. is established in China.
Jun. 2003 Executive Officer system is implemented.
Aug. 2003 Kinseki, Ltd. (now Kyocera Kinseki Corp.) becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Kyocera Corp.
Kyocera SLC Technologies Corp. is established.
Dec. 2003 Kyocera Display Institute Co., Ltd. is established.
Jan. 2004 Kyocera Telecommunications Research Corp. is established in California, U.S.A.
Kyocera Electronic Devices, LLC is established in U.S.A.
Feb. 2004 Hotel Princess Kyoto (now Hotel Nikko Princess Kyoto) joins the Kyocera Group.
Apr. 2004 Kinseki, Ltd. is reorganized to become Kyocera Kinseki Corp.
Kyocera's organic-material components businesses are merged with Kyocera SLC Technologies Corp.
Kyocera begins assembling solar modules in Mexico.
Sep. 2004 Japan Medical Materials Corp. is established.
Oct. 2004 Kyocera Maruzen Systems Integration Co., Ltd. is established.
Kyocera Solar Europe s.r.o. is established in the Czech Republic.
Apr. 2005 Kyocera's Japanese solar sales business is integrated into Kyocera Solar Corp.
Kyocera Solar Europe s.r.o. opens a manufacturing plant in the Czech Republic.
Jun. 2005 Kyocera acquires land, buildings and other property from IBM Japan, Ltd. for the Yasu office (Yasu, Shiga).
Apr. 2006 KCCS Management Consulting, Inc. is established.
Kyocera Korea Co., Ltd. is established in Korea.
Aug. 2006 Shanghai Kyocera Trading Co., Ltd. is established in China.
Oct. 2006 Hertz Technology, Inc. becomes Kyocera Kinseki Hertz Corporation.
Dec. 2006 Kyocera Management
Consulting Service (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. is established in China.
Dec. 2007 Wireless Broadband Planning K.K. (now UQ Communications Inc.) acquires a license for the 2.5-GHz frequency band for Mobile Broadband Wireless Access Systems in Japan. The venture's principal investors include KDDI Corporation, Intel Corporation, East Japan Railway Company, KYOCERA Corporation, Daiwa Securities Group Inc., and the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.
Apr. 2008 Kyocera acquires the mobile phone business of SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.; KYOCERA SANYO Telecom, Inc.
is established in California, U.S.A.; KYOCERA Telecom Equipment (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. is established in Malaysia.
Form DDI Corp.
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