Alps Alpine in Numbers

In November of 1948, the Company was established under the name of Kataoka Electric Co., Ltd., in Yukigayaotsukamachi, Ota-ku, Tokyo, with 500,000 yen in capital and a total staff of 23 people. Following that, in December of 1964, the Company name was changed to Alps Electric Co., Ltd.
In May of 1967, Alps Motorola Inc. (the current Alpine Electronics Inc.) was established.
And then in January of 2019, Alps Electric and Alpine integrated their businesses to give birth to Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.

For more information, please see the History section.

The Company’s sales reach 933.1 billion yen.
The breakdown of sales for each individual business segment is as shown in the graph. The main source of sales in the Components Segment is products for smartphones, while in the Module and System Segment it is products for automotive applications.

For more information, please see the Our Business section.

*As of March 2023

Alps Alpine is conducting business at its 190 bases located in 24 countries and regions around the world.

For more information, please see the Global Network section.

*Group companies and subsidiaries, excluding Alps Logistics Co., Ltd.
*As of October 2023

Sales of the Company’s products overseas account for 88.4% of the total. The United States, China, and Europe comprise our major sales regions. We conduct our business on a global scale, providing products and services to more than 5,000 around the world.

*As of fiscal 2022.

Alps Alpine has 29,926 employees, including those working for our group companies around the world. The ratio of employees by individual country is as shown in the graph. Japan accounts for 26.5% of the ratio of employees.

*Consolidated number of employees as of March 2023

With the reelection of directors held in June, the ratio of independent outside directors has exceeded 50%.
At the meeting of the board of directors, in addition to deliberating and making decisions on important matters related to management, executive directors are entrusted with making decisions on important business execution matters. Also, the board of directors is positioned as an organization that inspects and supervises the situation of business execution, and that endeavors to strengthen the monitoring function.

For more information, please see the Directors & Corporate Officers section.

In fiscal 2022, we newly installed photovoltaic power generation equipment, in particular at our locations in China, thus bringing our energy generating capacity to 9 MW on a global level.
Also, particularly at our bases located overseas, our supply of electric power derived from renewable energy sources has increased. In addition, we have made progress with the use of renewable energy certificates, and our production base in Europe has achieved 100% renewable energy use. Going forward, we are aiming to raise the renewable energy usage rate to 60% throughout the group in 2024, and to switch to renewable energy for 100% of the energy we use in our business operations by 2030.

For more information, please see the Decarbonization section.    

The number of patents held by the entire group is 7,473.
Also, the number of new patents obtained in fiscal 2022 was 595, and we are continually filing for new patents every year.

*As of March 2023
*Includes registered utility models and registered designs.

In fiscal 2022, Alps Alpine invested 31.9 billion yen in R&D costs.
Through the generation of technology assets combined with the cloud domain in addition to our unique strengths in the integration of hardware and software, we are accelerating the development of new products that provide new values in “excitement ,” “safety,” and “environmental friendliness.”