@Gareth Fisher  I see a lot of Hitachi and Mitsubishi out there, but I can't really vouch for them as I have not installed them in my own home yet.

After that, maybe a tossup between the Makita 18v recip saw and the Hitachi 10" laser miter saw.

I'm finding conflicting articles on the subject.But.... on the same job growth subject, a large GE Hitachi facility is also going up in Castle Hayne.https://www.wilmingtonbiz.com/...

I got my big Hitachi roto-hammer from the local guys for $250 cash (new is $1K+) and I've punched a wagon-load of holes in concrete, its never messed up once.  

Pan Afric Commodities was one of the 10 finalists in the 2005 Investor of the Year Awards.FIFI Transport Uganda LtdA leading hauler in the east and central African region, the company has state-of-the-art trucks capable of handling containerised and bagged freight.

As an example Hitachi Global Storage Technologies is laying off 20% of their global work force, but there is no recent news on this topic. 

Some stuff I buy top notch tools - Bosch for power tools, Hitachi nailers.

South of San Francisco is the Peninsula and the South Bay, aka Silicon Valley, which is home to many notable tech companies like Apple, Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Oracle, AMD, Adobe, Intel, Netflix, Cisco, HP, EBay, Marvell, Altera, Ericsson, IBM, Hitachi, Kaiser Permanente, KLA Tencor, Qualcomm, Quantum, Xilinx, Tivo…… I could go on and on, but you get the picture.

Overall I have 31 plus years managing construction at Fluor Corp for IBM, Amgen, Hitachi, Intel, HP, AMD, etc..etc..

They were purchased by Hitachi in 2002 and the consolidation of the business is still going on.