In 1936 Riken Kankoshi Co., Ltd. was formed to market sensitised paper. In the late 1940s, founder Kiyoshi Ichimura formulated the Spirit of Three Loves, which later became Ricoh's corporate philosophy, in recognition that people are a company's greatest asset.
In the 1950s, Ricoh built on mass-production technologies cultivated with the RICOHFLEX III to enter the office equipment market.
In the 1960s, Ricoh expanded its office equipment business to include such offerings as reproduction, data processing, and retrieval systems, and began establishing overseas operations to serve regional markets.
In the 1980s, the company stepped up marketing of Ricoh-brand copiers in the United States and Europe while further globalising and increasing overseas production.
In the first half of the 1990s, Ricoh introduced many digital and colour computer-connective products under the Image Processing Systems (IPS) integration strategy. On February 6, 1996, Ricoh celebrated its 60th birthday.
1963: changes corporate name to Ricoh Company, Ltd.
1975: becomes the first company in the office automation industry to win the coveted Deming Prize for excellence in quality control
1977: introduces the acronym OA, for Office Automation, at CeBIT in Hannover
1982: produces the first-ever digital processor
1985: opens the world’s most automated OA equipment plant, in Gotemba
1987: launches the IMAGIO series of digital intelligent systems
1991: starts the ISO 9000 Corporate Committee, a company-wide organisation for obtaining ISO 9000 series certification
1995: introduces in Japan the Ricoh DC-1 multimedia digital camera, which records still and moving images and sound and is computer-connective
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