Topcon Corporation announced the executive changes. The changes in director and executive officers were approved to meeting of the Board of Director on June 6, 2017. The company announced the appointment of Shokyu Nakamura as Executive Officer. The date of the transfer will be formally determined at the 124th Ordinary Meeting of Shareholders to be held on June 28, 2017 and the Meeting of the Board of Directors to be held after the closing of said Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders. The company also announced retirement of Hiroshi Taguchi as Director and retirement of Kanji Ikegaya as Executive Officer. Both the retirements will be applicable after the closing of said the 124th Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders in June 28, 2017.
Topcon Corp is mainly engaged in the manufacture and sale of smart infrastructure products, positioning products and eye care products. The Company operates in four business segments. The Smart Infrastructure segment provides total stations, Layout navigators, three-dimensional (3D) mobile measurement systems, three-dimensional (3D) laser scanners, data collectors, theodolites, rotating lasers and pipe lasers, among others. The Positioning Company segment provides global positioning systems (GPSs) for location survey, civil engineering machine control systems, asset management systems and machine control systems for precision agriculture, among others. The Eye Care segment provides fundus cameras, slit lamps, laser photocoagulators, non-contact type Tono meters, lens edgers, vision inspection equipment and others. The Others segment engages in precision measurement business and optical device business.