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Verbatim Corporation logo

The Verbatim Corporation is a US company and markets storage media and flash memory products. It is a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation of Japan.

History

The company was founded in 1969 and it has been a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Chemicals since 1990.

Key Dates

• 1969: Information Terminals, the predecessor to Verbatim, is created.
• 1979: Verbatim goes public; sales grow to $36 million.
• 1985: Eastman Kodak announces its $174 million bid for Verbatim.
• 1990: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation acquires Verbatim.
• 1992: The company buys Carlisle Memory Products.
• 2005: Shareholder Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation merges with Mitsubishi Pharma Corporation to form Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation.

Products

Computer data storage products:

• floppy disk
• magnetic tape
• MultiMediaCards
• SD cards
• CompactFlash cards
• CD-R/CD-RW
• DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-R DL
• DVD+R/DVD+RW/DVD+R DL
• DVD-RAM
• BD-R/BD-RE
• HD-DVD-R
• USB flash drives

Those products are partly produced in Verbatim/Mitsubishi's own plants in Singapore and Japan, and partly under license by Taiwanese and Indian manufacturers.

Verbatim also resells relabeled products from Japanese, Taiwanese, Chinese, Malaysian and Indian factories (Pearl White DVD series in Europe, some CD-R not labeled Super Azo), including but not limited to products by Taiyo Yuden, Ritek Corporation, CMC Magnetics, Prodisc, Moser Baer, Daxon/BenQ.

Technologies

• Advanced Azo Dye Technology (patented Azo-Color technology)
• SERL Super Eutectic Recording Layer technology for rewritable medias (after deleting the medium it regenerates)

• TERL (Tellurium Alloy Recording Layer) technology for special Audio CD-RWs

Shareholders

• Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation

See also

• Verbatim (UK)
• Verbatim Floppy disks used for experiment G-616 on NASA Shuttle Flight STS-40.

External links

• Company website
• Website for Europe

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