[Klaus]

That was badly phrased and inaccurate. Tokina is Kenko Tokina, since a few years ago.

 

As for Hoya owning Kenko Tokina... from what I see that's not true. However, Kenko Tokina's shareholders are people with key positions within Hoya. So they're clearly linked.

 

Seems to be fuzzy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokina

 

 

Probably the typical Japanese thing - Keiretsu:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiretsu

[youpii]

Seems to be fuzzy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokina

 

More fuzzy:

http://www.kenkotokinausa.com/

[Guest]

Less fuzzy:

http://www.tokina.co.jp/en/outline.html

 

[Brightcolours]

Both Kenko and Tokina have been bought by Hoya, and Hoya merged them into Kenko Tokina. Not a big secret... The Tokina-Pentax cooperation on lens design and manufacture made Hoya buy Pentax.

[Guest]

Shareholder

Toru Yamanaka, Mamoru Yamanaka, Tetsuo Suzuki and others
<p style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(238,238,238);">Representative Director:　Toru Yamanaka (President)

<p style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(238,238,238);">Director (part-time): Mamoru Yamanaka (Consultant of Hoya Corp.)

<p style="font-size:12.8px;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:rgb(238,238,238);">Director: Tetsuo Suzuki (Honorary Chairman of Hoya Corp.)