In 2015, trying to reduce payments on a growing debt, the Japanese corporation Sharp gradually got rid of the office real estate. In Osaka, it sold not only the headquarters building, and located across the street office building, also occupied by the structures of the corporation.
Now, with the support of Taiwanese investors in the person of Hon Hai Precision Industry (Foxconn), the Japanese company Sharp is going to buy at least a part of the former estate. Now the building in front of the headquarters in Osaka can return to Sharp after October 11, when it will be paid about $ 138 million. Granted by the new majority shareholder in the face of the Foxconn. It is reported that a mass return of the office real estate was one of the conditions of the transaction with the last of the companies.
Along the way, it is reported that the joint venture Japan Display (JDI) to supply Apple LCD panels can bring Sharp as one of the shareholders. More precisely, the Japanese investment fund INCJ, which now owns a 39.2% stake, JDI, ready to transfer part of these new Sharp owners. It is believed that Foxconn has an obvious interest in obtaining access to supplies JDI displays for Apple devices that Taiwanese contractor collects in their enterprises.