Canon Inc. to make Optopol Technology a subsidiary

Under Phase III of its Excellent Global Corporation Plan, a five-year initiative launched in 2006, Canon aims to maintain its high-profitability structure and join the ranks of the world’s top 100 companies in terms of all key measures of business performance. As a principal strategy toward the realization of this goal, Canon aims to achieve the overwhelming No. 1 position worldwide in all of its current core businesses. Towards this goal, Canon welcomes OPTOPOL into the Canon Group as a partner toward the realization of becoming No. 1 in the world for comprehensive ophthalmic diagnostic equipment.