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Our notebook PCs continue to enjoy a solid global presence, including in Japan, where we have a top-level
market share. On the other hand, our TV business, which had been in the black for seven continuous half-year
scal terms, was in the red due to such causes as declining demand and severe price-cutting in Japan after the
completion of the shift to digital terrestrial broadcasting. With regard to the issues concerning our TV business,
while we have ended TV production in Japan, we will strengthen our business base by expanding consigned
manufacturing overseas. In addition, we will strive to expand sales by selling sequentially new products that
In what directions will you take the notebook PC and TV businesses?
Q6
Both in Japan and overseas, we already have taken a sure step forward in becoming a front-runner in the Smart
Community business  eld by participating in 27 demonstration plants and commercial projects regarding the
Smart Community. In a microgrid system experiment at the isolated Japanese island at Miyako-jima, we have
achieved good results testing facilities for a new energy system that realizes a balance between installing large-
scale renewable energy sources and stabilizing power supply. We expect net sales for FY2015 in the Smart
Community business to be ¥900 billion.
In order to expand the global development of the Smart Community business and become a global leader
in this  eld, it is essential to carry out such measures as M&A and business alliances. In addition to acquiring
Landis+Gyr that currently is manufacturing and selling Smart Meters in more than 30 countries around the
world, we built collaboration relationships in such areas as cloud services with IBM and Hewlett-Packard.
Furthermore, Toshiba TEC, our Group company, acquired IBM’s retail store solutions business to develop the
Smart Community business on a global scale.
We are not only establishing alliances with companies in developed economies. In each region’s emerging
economies, because Smart Community infrastructure is being planned under government leadership, we are
promoting alliances with major companies in these regions that include local production for local
consumption.
What is most needed when making the Smart Community into a strong business is the power of concept
engineering. Because of its deep well of experience in the large-scale construction of nuclear power plants,
Toshiba Group has an impressive record of enhancing its engineering power. In the Smart Community business
as well, we will demonstrate to the maximum our engineering power by e ciently combining total solutions
on the roadmap to the Smart Community.
For advancing the Smart Community business, our capabilities to provide comprehensive systems are the
key for success. We will offer value-added total solutions by taking utmost advantage of our long-standing
systems technologies nurtured in such diverse areas as water, transportation, data processing and healthcare
and built upon high-level ICT (Information and Communication Technology) platforms. To further secure the
interoperability of its technologies, standardization becomes a quite important issue. Toshiba proactively
participates in contributing to international standardization activities.
What are Toshiba’s total solutions for realizing Smart Communities?
Q5
An Interview with the President
10 TOSHIBA Annual Report 2012