It turned out that Fujitsu is considering selling a subsidiary that manufactures and sells scanners that read images, etc. to Ricoh, a major precision equipment company, in order to promote business restructuring centered on IT.
According to the people concerned, Fujitsu is considering selling about 80% of the shares of its subsidiary "PFU", which manufactures and sells scanners in Ishikawa Prefecture, to Ricoh.
The sale amount is expected to reach about 80 billion yen.
Fujitsu is strengthening IT-related matters such as software development and AI = artificial intelligence.
In the field of hardware, supercomputers and communication devices compatible with 5G are continuing their business because they think they have a synergistic effect with IT, but others are selling, and this time it seems to be part of that.
On the other hand, Ricoh has indicated that it will invest 300 billion yen by 2025 in order to strengthen its office business.
Among electrical equipment manufacturers, Hitachi, which is also strengthening the IT field, has decided to sell the shares of its subsidiary construction machinery manufacturer, and as decarbonization and DX = digital transformation progress rapidly, there is a movement to review the business structure. It is one after another.