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Stanley Electric K.K. (, ''Sutanrē Denki Kabushiki-gaisha'', Engl. ''Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.'') is a Japanese company, producing electric light sources. Stanley owns 36 consolidated subsidiaries, 3 associated companies, 23 factories in 8 countries, offices in 17 countries and has over 13000 employees. Main customers for the core business (automotive lightning) are Honda and Nissan. Other customers using Stanley`s products include Toyota, Mazda, Suzuki, Mitsubishi, Ford and Chrysler. Stanley is listed in the TOPIX of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. ==History== The company was founded in 1920 by Takaharu Kitano, who named the company after British-American Africa-explorer Henry Morton Stanley. As the company states, he was impressed by Stanley`s Vision, courage and pioneering spirit. At that time, only about 8000 cars were present in Japan, all of them imported. *1933: Company was transferred into a corporation *1934: First branch in Osaka *1954: Start of business relations with Honda *1958: Listing in the Tokyo Stock Exchange *1965: Start of silicon processing *1968: First international branch in Taiwan *1968: First research center for lightning *1979: First branch in the USA (Stanley US) *1980: Development of colored liquid crystals *1984: Branch in France *Until 2009: Many branches in Europe, South- and North-America, Asia and Australia. Stanley and the German company Hella founded a joint holding based in Melbourne in 2002. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stanley Electric」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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