Buffalo (company)
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| legal form | Kabushiki-gaisha (joint stock company) |
| founding | May 1, 1975 (in Japan ) |
| Seat | Nagoya ( Japan ) |
| management | Kuniaki Saiki |
| Number of employees | 434 (as of March 31, 2010) |
| sales | 106 billion yen (€ 808 million as of March 31, 2009) |
| Branch | Consumer electronics |
| Website | buffalo.jp |
KK Buffalo ( Japanese 株式会社 バ ッ フ ァ ロ ー , Kabushiki-gaisha Baffarō , English Buffalo Inc. ) is a Japanese company that has specialized in the range of data storage , network and main memory components. In Germany, the company is represented by its subsidiary Buffalo Technology Germany .
Buffalo is one of the market leaders in the field of W-LAN products, especially on the Japanese market . A product that is particularly well-known in Europe is network storage (NAS) called Linkstation .
history
The company was founded on May 1, 1975 by Makoto Maki ( 牧 誠 ) as an audio accessory manufacturer Melco ( メ ル コ , Meruko ) and on August 5, 1978 took the corporate form of a Kabushiki-gaisha . The change to the manufacture of computer peripherals took place in July 1981 with the PROM writer RPP-01. In July 1986 the Melshop sales outlets were spun off as an independent company, KK Melshop ( 株式会社 メ ル シ ョ ッ プ ). In December 1989, the first foreign subsidiary, Buffalo Products, Inc., was founded in Oregon . In September 1990 the logistics department was outsourced as KK Buffalo Butsuryū ( 株式会社 バ ッ フ ァ ロ ー 物流 ). In August 1995 the shares were listed in the 2nd division ("medium-sized companies") of the Tokyo Stock Exchange and in September of the following year they were promoted to the 1st division ("large companies").
In July 1996, the KK Melco Techno School ( 株式会社 メ ル コ テ ク ノ ス ク ー ル ) was founded to conduct training on computer manufacturing and in August 1999, KK Melco Finance ( 株式会社 メ ル コ フ ァ イ ナ ン ス ) was founded for trading in securities. In January 1998 TechWorks (Delaware), Inc. (today: Buffalo Technology (USA), Inc. ) became a subsidiary and in December TechWorks (UK) Limited (today: Buffalo Technology UK Limited ) and TechWorks ( Ireland) Limited , which no longer exists today. In March 2003, KK Buffalo Lease ( 株式会社 バ ッ フ ァ ロ ー リ ー ス ) for leasing broadband equipment was founded. In October the company changed its name from KK Melco to today's KK Buffalo. At the same time, a holding company called KK Melco Holdings ( 株式会社 メ ル コ ホ ー ル デ ィ ン グ ス ) was founded under the umbrella of which KK Buffalo and all subsidiaries now operate. In August 2004, KK Melco Finance was reintegrated into KK Buffalo. In 2008 assembly and the entire logistics were relocated to the Netherlands. In the course of this, the Irish subsidiary was closed and Buffalo EU BV was re-established in the Netherlands under Melco Holding. The European activities are coordinated here.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e 会 社 の プ ロ フ ィ ー ル: 会 社 概要 . Buffalo, accessed October 12, 2010 (Japanese).
- ↑ 会 社 の 沿革: 会 社 概要 . Buffalo, accessed October 12, 2010 (Japanese).
- ↑ MELCO'S HISTORY. (No longer available online.) Melco Holdings, archived from the original on February 25, 2010 ; accessed on October 12, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
