Hoya Announces First Quarter Financial Results

Tokyo, August 3, 2010 (ots/PRNewswire) - HOYA Corporation today
announced financial results for the first quarter ended June 30,
2010. Net sales were 105.5 billion yen for the quarter, a 11.2%
increase from 94.9 billion yen in the same period last year, and
operating income was 20.1 billion yen, a 116.6% increase from 9.2
billion yen in the same period last year, mainly due to order
increase brought by the recovery of the market.

Net income for the first quarter was up 446.0% to 21.0 billion
yen, out of which 10.3 billion yen was for the extra-ordinary gains
from sales of the hard disk glass media manufacturing operation and
related assets to Western Digital Corporation in June 2010. Earnings
per share for the quarter were 48.74 yen compared with 8.90 yen in
the same period last year.

"We continued full production of glass substrates for HDDs in the
quarter under review and saw fairly nice income growth from the same
period last year. And optical lens business performed well exceeding
our expectation," said Hiroshi Suzuki, chief executive officer of
HOYA. "Operating income from Life Care, under our new business
segmentation, also expanded from the same period last year thanks to
improved product mix."

For the first six months of this fiscal year ending September 30,
2010, Hoya forecasts net sales of 205.6 billion yen (up 1.9% compared
to 201.8 billion yen in the same period previous year), operating
income of 38.7 billion yen (up 38.2%) and net income of 32.6 billion
yen (up 129.5%.)

The full quarterly report is available in "Financial Statement"
page in HOYA website Investor Relations section at:
http://www.hoya.co.jp/english/

*Results are preliminary and unaudited.

*The yen amounts shown therein are rounded down to the nearest
100 million.

About Hoya Corporation

Hoya Corporation is a global technology company based in Tokyo,
Japan, and the leading supplier of innovative high-tech products and
services based upon its advanced optics technologies. Hoya is active
in two main fields of business: (1) Information Technology: providing
mask blanks and photo masks for semiconductor devices and LCD panels,
glass memory disks for HDDs, and SLR/compact digital cameras and
optical lenses; (2) Life Care: providing eyeglasses, intraocular
lenses for cataract surgery, endoscopic systems, and operating retail
shops for contact lenses. Hoya now has over 100 subsidiaries and
affiliates, and employs approximately 36,000 people worldwide.

ots Originaltext: Hoya Corporation
Im Internet recherchierbar: http://www.presseportal.de

Contact:
CONTACT: Contact Information: Akiko Maeyama / Naoji Ito,
CorporateCommunications, Hoya Group, Tel: +81-3-3232-0065 /
E-mail:HOYA-pr@mb.hoya.co.jp