Brother Industries

Brother Industries, Ltd.
Native name
ブラザー工業株式会社
Burazā Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha
Company typePublic
TYO: 6448
IndustryPrinters, machinery
Founded1908; 116 years ago (1908) (as Yasui Sewing Machine Co.)
FounderKanekichi Yasui
HeadquartersNagoya, Aichi, Japan
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Toshikazu Koike [jp] (Chairman)
Ichiro Sasaki [jp] (President)
ProductsComputer printers
Multi-function printers
Desktop computers
Fax machines
Industrial sewing machines
Typewriters
Knitting machines
Domestic appliances
Machine tools
RevenueIncrease ¥822.93 billion (2023)[1]
Decrease ¥49.79 billion (2023)[1]
Decrease ¥31.66 billion (2023)[1]
Total assetsIncrease ¥896.11 billion (2023)[1]
Total equityIncrease ¥668.12 billion (2023)[1]
Number of employees
40,538 (2023)[1]
Websiteglobal.brother

Brother Industries, Ltd. (stylized in lowercase) (Japanese: ブラザー工業株式会社, Hepburn: Burazā Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese multinational electronics and electrical equipment company headquartered in Nagoya, Japan. Its products include printers, multifunction printers, desktop computers, consumer and industrial sewing machines, large machine tools, label printers, typewriters, fax machines, and other computer-related electronics.[2][3] Brother distributes its products both under its own name and under OEM agreements with other companies.

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Highlights of Consolidated Results for Fiscal Year ended March 31, 2024" (PDF). Brother Industries. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  2. ^ "Brother Corporate Data". Retrieved 4 October 2012.
  3. ^ Soumithri, Mamidipudi (11 March 2015). "Japan's Brother Industries to buy UK's Domino Printing for $1.55 billion". Reuters. Retrieved 16 November 2017.