Beckman Coulter Group / Subsidiary Olympus Corporation / Banking Corporation / Trade Name Beckman Coulter Inc. / State Street Bank / Olympus Medical Engineering Co. Ltd. / Shareholding Ratio Nippon Life Insurance Company / Divestment Trade Name Olympus Corporation / Olympus Europa Holding GmbH / Beckman Coulter Inc. / Post Divestment (Planned) (1) Trade Name Olympus-DS Corp. / Osaka Securities Exchange / Olympus America Inc. / Mishima Olympus Co. Ltd. / Japan Trustee Services Bank Ltd. / Olympus Group / Olympus-DS Corp. / Trust Company / Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation / Succeeding Company / New York Stock Exchange / Three Most Recent Fiscal Periods Olympus Corporation / Olympus Corporation / The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ / Post Divestment (1) Trade Name Olympus Corporation / OlympusDS / Divesting Company / Tokyo Stock Exchange / /
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Japan / United States / /
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USD / JPY / /
Event
M&A / Reorganization / Earnings Announcement / General or Shareholder Meeting / Second Stock Issuance / Company Expansion / /
IndustryTerm
automated blood transfusion testing systems / owned subsidiary / clinical diagnostic testing systems / diagnostic systems / clinical testing systems / diagnostic systems business spin-off / /
Director and President / Head Office / Chairman / President and Chief Executive Officer / Chief Executive Officer / General Manager of Public Relations and Investor Relations Dept. / Major / Representative / /
February 27, 2009 For Immediate Release Company Name: Olympus Corporation Name of Representative: Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, Representative Director and President (Stock Code: 7733, First Sections of the Tokyo Stock