The story
Founded in March 1972 as Iiyama Electric Corporation (飯山電機株式会社) by 23-year-old bank employee Kazuro Katsuyama, it first started manufacturing television boards and substrates for Mitsubishi at a local plant in Nagano Prefecture. They started producing black and white TVs in 1976 and color TVs in 1979, followed by computer monitors under its own brand name in 1981 which then became its main product range.
The company expanded to the Western market in 1987 and in the 1990s opened up offices in Philadelphia, Germany, Poland, France, UK, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Taiwan, and its international head office in the Netherlands, where it is registered as iiyama Benelux B.V. By 1993 it was the leading monitor supplier in Japan with a 21% market share. The first LCDs were released by iiyama in 1997.
In 2001 it merged with e-yama to create iiyama Co., Ltd. (株式会社イーヤマ), and its headquarters moved to Nagano. In 2006 holding company MCJ bought iiyama and renamed it to iiyama Co., Ltd. (株式会社iiyama), moving its base to Chūō, Tokyo. In October 2008 iiyama Corporation became part of Mouse Computer Co., Ltd., one of MCJ's companies.
From Wikipedia’s article on Iiyama (company), shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4