ams OSRAM completes the transaction to sell Entertainment & Industry Lamps business to Ushio Inc.

ams OSRAM completes the transaction to sell Entertainment & Industry Lamps business to Ushio Inc.

• Sale of Entertainment and Industry Lamps business to Ushio Inc. (Japan) completed
• Deal value EUR 114 m (cash & debt free)
• Execution of the deleveraging plan is well on track

Premstaetten, Austria, and Munich, Germany (2 March 2026) – ams OSRAM has closed the sale of Entertainment and Industry Lamps business to Ushio Inc. (Japan) with a deal value of EUR 114 million

“The successful completion of the sale of our Entertainment and Industry Lamps business to Ushio Inc. represents another important milestone,” said Aldo Kamper, CEO of ams OSRAM. “It advances our balance‑sheet deleveraging strategy and strengthens our focus on building a global leader in Digital Photonics.”

Executing the balance sheet deleveraging plan

On 30 April 2025, ams OSRAM announced an accelerated and comprehensive deleveraging plan aimed at achieving target leverage ratio of net-debt to adjusted EBITDA of below 2, supported by several complementary elements.  As part of this plan, the company announced two transactions.

On 29 July 2025, ams OSRAM announced the first transaction, the sale of its Entertainment and Industry Lamps business to Ushio Inc. for a cash and debt-free purchase price of EUR 114 m. Ushio Inc. (https://www.ushio.co.jp), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a global leader in optical technologies. The transaction comprises production facilities in Berlin, in total approx. 500 employees, research & development capabilities and the associated intellectual property.

The transaction closed today.

About ams OSRAM

The ams OSRAM Group (SIX: AMS) is a global leader in innovative light and sensor solutions. As a specialist in Digital Photonics, we combine engineering excellence with cutting-edge global manufacturing to offer our customers the broadest portfolio of digital light and sensing technologies.

“Sense the power of light” — our success has ever since been based on a deep understanding of the potential of light. For 120 years, we have been developing innovations that move markets: from automotive applications and industrial manufacturing to medical and consumer electronics. In the anniversary year of the OSRAM brand, around 19,000 employees worldwide are working on pioneering solutions alongside societal megatrends such as smart mobility, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, smart health, and robotics. This is reflected in over 12,000 patents granted and applied for. Headquartered in Premstaetten/Graz (Austria) with co-headquarters in Munich (Germany), the group achieved EUR 3.3 billion revenues in 2025 and is listed as ams-OSRAM AG on the SIX Swiss Exchange (ISIN: AT0000A3EPA4). 

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