Mabuchi Motor Co. Ltd. - Introduction

Introduction

430 Matsuhidai
Matsudo
270-2280
Japan
Telephone: +81 47 384 1111
Fax: +81 47 389 5299
Web site: http://www.mabuchi-motor.co.jp

Public Company
Incorporated: 1954
Employees: 51,796
Sales: ¥ 105.74 billion ($983.80 million) (2003)
Stock Exchanges: Tokyo
Ticker Symbol: 6592
NAIC: 335312 Motor and Generator Manufacturing



Mabuchi Motor Co. Ltd. is the world's leading manufacturer of small electric motors, with a global market share of more than 50 percent. The company designs and manufactures a broad range of motors for the audiovisual, telecommunications, automotive, office equipment, precision instrument, home appliance, and industrial equipment industries. The company's motors—ranging from tiny to miniscule—are literally ubiquitous, finding applications in such products as DVD players, CD players, video cameras, VCRs, and the like; portable telephones and pagers; automobile features such as window lifters, rearview mirror actuators and door lock mechanisms, cruise controls, antenna lifters, navigation systems, and dozens of others; computers and related devices, such as printers, fax machines, copiers, computer cameras, CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives, and other computer components and peripherals; appliances such as electric toothbrushes, vacuum cleaners, hair dryers, clippers, and shavers, as well as power tools such as drills, sanders, grinders, and the like; and a wide variety of toys—including model slot-car racers. Founded in 1954 from technology developed by Kenichi Mabuchi, the company has long focused its manufacturing operations outside of Japan, with production facilities centered on China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, and Hong Kong. Mabuchi is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange but remains controlled by the Mabuchi family, including the founder and his younger brother and current chairman Takaichi Mabuchi.