EPCOS develops, manufactures and markets electronic components, and focuses on leading-edge technology markets: automotive, industrial and consumer electronics as well as information and communications. These industries present sound prospects for medium to long-term growth. 
EPCOS is the successor company of Siemens Matsushita Components, a joint venture founded in 1989 by Siemens and Matsushita. Since its stock-market launch on October 15, 1999, both former parent companies have remained important shareholders, each holding 12.5 percent. EPCOS was floated on the Frankfurt and New York Stock exchanges on October 15, 1999. Since March 2003 EPCOS is one of the largest companies in the new TecDAX index of technology stocks