It turned out that Toshiba, which has many businesses such as semiconductors and social infrastructure, is considering splitting the company after reorganizing the business into three.
While management turmoil continues due to confrontation with shareholders who say things, it seems that the aim is to increase corporate value and help resolve the turmoil by the extremely unusual means of splitting the company.
Toshiba has six business fields, including energy, social infrastructure, and semiconductors, which are engaged in power generation equipment, and has approximately 300 subsidiaries under its umbrella.
According to the company, these businesses are
being reorganized into three parts:
▼ "infrastructure",
▼ "devices" such as electronic devices, and
▼ "semiconductor memory", and
are considering splitting the company. That is.
In addition, each split company aims to list its shares within two years.
It is extremely unusual for a large domestic company to split a company into major businesses.
Toshiba was in a financial crisis due to fraudulent accounting discovered six years ago and a huge loss in the nuclear power business, and it continued to recover.
However, recently, there have been conspicuous conflicts with shareholders over corporate governance, and at this year's general meeting of shareholders, the personnel case proposed by the company was rejected, and management turmoil continued.
Toshiba seems to have the aim of ending the turmoil by streamlining the complicated management of many businesses by splitting the companies and increasing the corporate value of each company.
Toshiba is also considering incorporating such content into the new management plan announced on the 12th.