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		<title><![CDATA[PENTAX Medical Gains Focused Strength from HOYA Merger]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[HOYA Merger With PENTAX Brings Expanded Innovation and Financial Resources to One of the Medical Imaging Market Leaders  MONTVALE, N.J. -- PENTAX Medical Company, long one of the market leaders in the innovation and manufacture of medical imaging technologies for the GI, ENT and pulmonary medical fields, recently became...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Hoya Announces Third Quarter and Nine Month Results for 2007.(Financial report)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO, Japan, January 28 /PRNewswire/ --     Hoya Corporation today  announced its consolidated results for the Third Quarter and Nine Months  ended December 31, 2007.     Third Quarter 2007 Highlights     - Net sales increased 48.6% to 147.0 billion...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Hoya Notice of Commencement of Tender Offer for the Shares of Pentax Corporation]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0RRT/is_2007_July_2/ai_n19331405]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Tokyo, Japan, July 2, 2007 - JCN Newswire - Hoya Corporation (the "Company" or the "Tender Offeror") announces that it determined in accordance with a decision of the representative executive officer dated July 2, 2007 to acquire (1) the common stock of PENTAX Corporation (TSE: 7750; the "Target" or "PENTAX"),...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pentax Announcement Concerning Pentax Corporation's Approval of the Tender Offer by Hoya Corporation]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0RRT/is_2007_July_2/ai_n19331407]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Tokyo, Japan, July 2, 2007 - JCN Newswire - At the board meeting held on July 2, 2007, PENTAX Corporation (hereinafter referred to as "PENTAX") has resolved to approve the tender offer by HOYA CORPORATION (hereinafter referred to as the "Tender Offeror") to purchase all shares of PENTAX (hereinafter referred...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Hoya to launch takeover bid for Pentax in June]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200705/ai_n19190301]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO AFP &#8212; Japanese optical glass maker Hoya Corp. said Thursday it will launch a friendly takeover bid for camera maker Pentax Corp. in early June, after months of shareholder resistance and boardroom strife.  The two companies have reached an agreement to integrate their management though a tender offer...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Japan's Hoya, Pentax to merge in latest camera shakeup]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200612/ai_n17066050]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO AFP &#8212; Japan's leading optical glass maker Hoya and Pentax, a manufacturer of digital cameras, has agreed to merge next October in the latest reshuffle of the nation's camera industry. The two companies, which are both manufacturers of medical equipment, said they planned to sign a contract in April...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[HOYA and PENTAX Reach Basic Understanding for Management Integration.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[TOKYO, December 21 /PRNewswire/ --     HOYA CORPORATION  ("HOYA") and PENTAX Corporation ("PENTAX") announced  today that they have reached a basic understanding aimed at a management  integration of the two companies, expected to be completed on October 1,  2007. The new company's name...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A parade of PALs the race to fit the lens to the presbyope: A host of new lens-design methods took center stage at this year's Optical Laboratories Association meeting. (Presbyopia Report).]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3403/is_200212/ai_n8160157]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Lens manufacturers have rolled out all kinds of new techno-terms to  explain the science behind today's progressive addition lenses.  Terms such as "Individual," "retina forward,"  "ray-tracing," etc. all describe different design methods lens  manufacturers are employing to pursue the Holy Grail of presbyopic  spectacle lens...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2002 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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