ORIX Corporation
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Sweet Charity: Financial Services Firm Launches Site Devoted to Giving [Press Release]
Business Wire | 7 days 17 hours ago
In the spirit of “what goes around truly does come around,” one financial services firm has launched a corporate culture of giving – and finds that the return on its investment, and that of its employees, is profound. ORIX USA Corporation, a diversified corporate lender, financial services company and investment bank, is building a corporate culture of charity and devotion to community. The newest manifestation of its credo is a website dedicated to the group’s charitable efforts, at www.orix...
Michael A. Blum Joins ORIX USA as Head of Corporate Development & Strategic Opportunities [Press Release]
Business Wire | 41 days 14 hours 9 minutes ago
ORIX USA today announced the appointment of Michael A. Blum as Managing Director, Head of Corporate Development & Strategic Opportunities of ORIX USA Corporation. Blum, 45, will be based in New York and will be responsible for originating, analyzing and executing strategic and opportunistic investments in the Americas and Europe. In this capacity, he will be focused on enhancing ORIX USA’s existing footprint and also expanding the company’s investment activities into new business lines such a...
World Needs a New Kind of Leadership From U.S. in 21st Century [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 4 days 7 hours 1 minute ago
...s opinions come from almost two decades of traveling the globe as an executive with Goldman Sachs Companies and ORIX Corporation, leading high-profile organization and restructuring projects. This year she founded YURU, which counsels...
Former Fortune 500 Executive Says Businesses Must Get Creative or Perish [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 90 days 14 hours 58 minutes ago
DALLAS, Aug. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Companies must get creative if they hope to survive the current economic downturn and be positioned to compete in the new, global economy that will emerge, says former Fortune 500 business executive Kathy Robison. And she is launching YURU (
World Needs a New Kind of Leadership From U.S. in 21st Century --International business consultant Kathy Robison says different approach needed by businesses, political leaders
CNBC | 4 days 11 hours 58 minutes ago
DALLAS, Nov 19, 2009 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Can the United States be the kind of leader the world needs in the 21st century? It depends on the ability of our political and business leaders to recognize that the type of world leader required in the last century is different than the world leader needed now, says former Fortune 500 business executive Kathy Robison.
TechMedia Advertising, Inc. Completes Acquisition of TechMedia Advertising Mauritius [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 108 days 11 hours 59 minutes ago
...Chairman of JAS Singapore Group of Companies, a Singapore corporation, that has subsidiary and affiliate businesses spanning more...Mr. Goh was the Team Head of Relationship Management for Orix Leasing Singapore Ltd., which is engaged in business development...
Japan Post, with new boss, returning to public roots
Japan Times, The | 25 days 13 hours 29 minutes ago
Bowing to calls to resign, most adamantly by Shizuka Kamei, state minister in charge of postal services, charismatic former banker Yoshifumi Nishikawa officially stepped down Wednesday as president of Japan Post Holdings Co. and was replaced by former Vice Finance Minister Jiro Saito. Experts say replacing Nishikawa is a turning point in the long-troubled postal privatization process. Why is the Democratic Party of Japan-led government trying to overturn the privatization scheme, a...
Kamei taps Saito to lead Japan Post
Japan Times, The | 33 days 6 hours 57 minutes ago
Postal reform minister Shizuka Kamei said Wednesday he wants former Vice Finance Minister Jiro Saito to replace Yoshifumi Nishikawa as Japan Post Holdings Co. president. Jiro Saito Saito's appointment, however, is likely to draw fire for going against the Democratic Party of Japan's efforts to strip the bloated bureaucracy of its policymaking influence. Kamei, leader of coalition partner Kokumin Shinto (People's New Party), is trying as hard as he can to roll back the postal...
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Company Overview
| Company: | ORIX Corporation |
|---|---|
| Industry: | Commercial Lending |
| Website: | http://www.orix.co.jp/grp/index.htm |
An international financing leviathan, ORIX is one of Japan's largest public financial services firms. The company finances leases of everything from computers and measuring equipment to aircraft and ships. ORIX also engages in consumer and corporate finance, life and other insurance, mortgage loans, venture capital, brokerage services, facilities management, car rental, and property development and management services in Japan and more than 20 other countries. The company operates around 1,200 offices in Japan (where it earns more than 80% of its revenues) and 260 more overseas. ORIX even has its own professional baseball team, the Kobe-based ORIX Buffaloes.
Key Numbers
| Sales in U.S. Dollars (mil.) | 9,524.5 (2009) |
|---|---|
| One-year % Growth in Sales | -18.1 (2009) |
| Net Income in U.S. Dollars (mil.) | 225.4 (2009) |
| One-year % Growth in Net Income | -86.7 (2009) |
| Number of Employees | 18,920 (2009) |
| One-year % Growth in Number of Employees | 1.2 (2009) |
| Fiscal Year-End | March |