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Orange County is resembling something of a minihub for Asian computer monitor makers these days.
Last month, EIZO Nanao Technologies Inc., part of Japan's Nanao Corp., moved its 30-person U.S. headquarters from Torrance to Cypress. The new office and warehouse facility serves as a sales and distribution center for EIZO, which makes monitors for computer-aided designers, graphic artists and other users.
EIZO joins a trio of other Asian monitor makers that have set up shop in OC. The largest of them is MAG InnoVision Co. Inc., Santa Ana, which sells monitors made by MAG InnoVision of Taiwan. The company employs about 150 people locally who work in sales, support and also design monitors under the Princeton Graphic Systems name, a brand MAG InnoVision acquired. MAG InnoVision also sells monitors as part of Gateway 2000 computers.
Korea Data Systems USA is the U.S. subsidiary of Seoul-based Korea Data Systems. KDS recently moved to a new 83,140-square-foot facility in Garden Grove, which serves as a sales, marketing and distribution center for monitors made in South Korea.
Smile International Inc. in Costa Mesa is the U.S. subsidiary of Kuo Feng Corp. of Taiwan. Smile's 30-person office serves as sales, marketing and distribution facility for the monitor maker.
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