Hirose Electric Group

Hirose Electric Co., Ltd. (ヒロセ電機株式会社, Hirose Denki kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese company specializing in the manufacturing of electric connectors. The company was founded in 1937 as Hirose Manufacturing, changed its name to Hirose Electric in August 1963 and started selling internationally in 1968.

Hirose Electric Co., Ltd.
Native name
ヒロセ電機株式会社
Company typePublic KK
Traded as
TYO: 6806
IndustryElectronics
FoundedTokyo (August 15, 1937 (1937-08-15))
HeadquartersOsaki, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-8587, Japan
Key people
Kazunori Ishii
(President and CEO)
Products
Revenue JPY 125.7 billion (FY 2014) (US$ 1.1 billion) (FY 2014)
Net income
JPY 22.9 billion (FY 2014) (US$ 92.5 million) (FY 2014)
Number of employees
4,044 (as of March 31, 2015)
WebsiteOfficial website
Footnotes / references

Hirose also manufactures flexible printed circuits for smartphones and gets about 70 percent of revenue from outside Japan.

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