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 Mabuchi Motor head office | |
Native name | マブチモーター株式会社 |
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| Company type | Public |
| TYO: 6592 | |
| Industry | Small DC motors |
| Predecessor | Kansai Rika Kenkyusho (a scientific research institute), followed by Tokyo Science Industrial Co. Ltd., Japan Science and Industry Co. Ltd., Mabuchi Shoji Co. Ltd., Mabuchi Industrial Co., Ltd., and Tokyo Science Co., Ltd. |
| Founded | 1946 |
| Founder | Kenichi Mabuchi |
| Headquarters | 430 Matsuhidai 270-2280, , Japan |
Number of locations | 10 sales offices, 13 factories and 2 R&D centers |
Area served | World |
Key people | |
| Products | Small electric motors for automobiles, audiovisual equipment, home appliances, power tools, toys, etc. |
Production output | 1.4 billion small DC motors |
| Revenue |  ¥108.401 billion |
| ¥9.335 billion | |
| ¥10.519 billion | |
| Total assets | ¥227.253 billion |
| Total equity | ¥20.704 billion |
| Owner | Major shareholders include: Takaichi Mabuchi (7.2%); Mabuchi International Scholarship Foundation (4.3%); Japan Trustee Services Bank, Ltd. (Trust) (4.3%); The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Ltd. (Trust) (3.9%); Takashi Mabuchi (3.0%); Tamotsu Mabuchi (3.0%); Premiere Corporation (3.0%); Taka Corporation Co., Ltd. (3.0%); TEXAS Inc. (2.7%); The Bank of New York Non-Treaty JASDEC Account (1.9%) |
Number of employees |  25,843 worldwide, 740 in headquarters |
| Divisions | Internal Audit Dept., Business Platform Innovation HQ, Cross Functional Team, IT, Corporate Planning, Admin. HQ, Operations Control HQ, Sales & Marketing HQ, R&D HQ, Quality Assurance |
| Subsidiaries | 21 in total located in USA, Mexico, Germany, China & Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Vietnam, and Singapore |
| Website | Official website |
| Footnotes / references All numbers, except for number of employees (2015), are for 2014 and taken from the 2014 annual report | |
Mabuchi Motor Company (マブチモーター株式会社, Mabuchi Mōtā Kabushiki Kaisha) is a Japanese manufacturing company based in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It is the world's largest manufacturer by volume of small electric motors, producing over 1.4 billion motors annually.[1] The company employs 24,286 people in its production division, 755 in its administrative division, 583 in its R&D division, and 219 in its sales division.[2]
Mabuchi Motor holds 70% of the market for motors used with automotive door mirrors, door locks, and air conditioning damper actuators.[3] Sales of power window lifter motors are on the rise.[1] The company's ratio of consolidated markets is 64.3% automotive products and 35.7% consumer and industrial products.[1] Applications for Mabuchi brushed DC electric motors and brushless electric motors include power drills, lawn mowers, vibrating cell phones and video game controllers, vibrators, vacuum cleaners, toy cars and planes, CD, DVD and Blu-ray players, digital cameras, computer printers, electric fans, electric razors, washing machines, electric tooth brushes, and blow dryers.[4]
- ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference
:2was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Factbook Q2 Fiscal 2015. Mabuchi Motor. 2015. pp. 1–10.
- ^ 2008 annual report Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine (p. 6), from the company's website. Retrieved November 7, 2009.
- ^ Let's Motorize, vol. 4. Japan: Mabuchi Motor. 2014. p. 1.