Yageo Corporation is a Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

-based electronic

Electronics

Electronics is the branch of science, engineering and technology that deals with electrical circuits involving active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive interconnection technologies...

 component manufacturing company. The company specializes in passive devices — resistors, capacitors and inductors.

Yageo acquired Vitrohm (founded in Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

, 1933) in 1996. It acquired the Phycomp and Ferroxcube brand names from Phillips Electronics NV in the summer of 2000.

Yageo acquired Stellar, Inc. in 2002.

External links

• Yageo Corporate homepage