Funai

Funai Electric Co., Ltd
Native name
船井電機株式会社
Funai Denki kabushiki gaisha
Company typeKK
TYO: 6839 (until Aug. 26, 2021)
IndustryElectronics
Founded1961; 63 years ago (1961)
FounderTetsuro Funai
Headquarters,
Japan
Key people
Koji Bando
(Chairman and CEO
Hideaki Funakoshi
(Vice Chairman)
Revenue¥246,100 million (2012)[1]
OwnerFunai family (39.39%)
Number of employees
2,861 (2011)
Websitewww.funai.jp

Funai Electric Co., Ltd. (船井電機株式会社, Funai Denki Kabushiki Gaisha) was a Japanese consumer electronics company headquartered in Daitō, Osaka. Currently, it is in liquidation.[2][3] Apart from producing its own branded electronic products, it was also an OEM providing assembled televisions and video players/recorders to major corporations such as Sharp, Toshiba, Denon, and others. Funai supplies inkjet printer hardware technology to Dell and Lexmark, and produces printers under the Kodak name.

Its United States–based subsidiary Funai Corporation, Inc., based in Torrance, California, markets Funai products in the US, along with Funai-licensed brands including Philips, Magnavox, Emerson Radio, and Sanyo.[4] Funai is the main supplier of electronics to Walmart and Sam's Club stores in the US, with production output in excess of 2 million flat-panel televisions during the summertime per year for Black Friday sale.

  1. ^ "Funai Electric Co., Ltd. Lowers Consolidated Full-year Outlook for FY 2012". Reuters. Archived from the original on May 3, 2012.
  2. ^ "Bankruptcy procedures to start for Funai Electric". The Asahi Shimbun. 2024-10-25. Retrieved 2024-10-26.
  3. ^ "Funai Electric receives approval for bankruptcy plan". Japan Times. 2024-10-25. Retrieved 2024-10-26.
  4. ^ "Our Brands". 10 November 2016. Archived from the original on 10 November 2016.