The Company was incorporated under the laws of Japan in 1950 to carry on the business founded in 1944 by Akira Murata. Murata has also expanded outside Japan and now maintains manufacturing and sales subsidiaries in the USA and in Singapore, a sales subsidiary in Hong Kong and a representative office in Germany.The Company and its operating subsidiaries are engaged in the manufacture and sale of a variety of electronic and electrical components which are primarily used in television receivers, radios, audio equipment, household electrical appliances and industrial equipment. The Company is also a manufacturer of ceramic capacitors and ceramic filters. The company's products cater to the mobile communications, automotive electronics, computers and digital home electronics industries.The Company's ordinary shares have been listed on the Osaka and Kyoto Stock Exchanges since March 1963, on the Tokyo Stock Exchange since December 1969 and on SGX, in the form of Singapore Depository Receipts, since August 1976.The Company is listed on the following stock exchanges: Tokyo, Osaka, Singapore (SDRs).