Tamasu (company)
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| legal form | Kabushiki kaisha (joint stock company) |
| founding | December 19, 1950 |
| Seat | Suginami , Tokyo |
| management | Shunsaku Yamada |
| Number of employees | 130 |
| sales | 5.9 billion yen (€ 52.6 million) |
| Branch | Sporting goods |
| Website | www.butterfly.co.jp |
| Status: October 2010 | |
Tamasu KK ( Japanese 株式会社 タ マ ス , Kabushiki kaisha Tamasu ) is a Japanese manufacturer of table tennis accessories, but above all rubbers for table tennis bats under the Butterfly brand .
The company was founded in 1950 by the former table tennis player Hikosuke Tamasu (* August 20, 1920 - July 22, 2004) in Yanai . From 1993 Butterfly was run by the son of the company founder Kimihiko Tamasu and today by Shunsaku Yamada. The current company headquarters is Suginami .
The company has foreign subsidiaries in Krefeld , Germany ( Tamasu Butterfly Europa GmbH , TBE), Shanghai , People's Republic of China ( Tamasu Butterfly China , TBC) and Seoul , South Korea ( Tamasu Butterfly Korea , TBK).
Many top players such as Zhang Jike, Timo Boll , Dimitrij Ovtcharov , Werner Schlager , Kalinikos Kreanga , Michael Maze , Oh Sang Eun , Zhang Yining , Zoran Primorac , Holger Nikelis , Ai Fukuhara use the company's products.
Tamasu Butterfly Europe
The European subsidiary Tamasu Butterfly Europa GmbH was managed from 1973 to 1985 by Béla Simon , the husband of Agnes Simon . His successor was Hideyuki Kamizuru, the husband of the German table tennis player Ursula Hirschmüller . Taisei Imamura and Takako Osawa are managing directors of the European branch. The seat is in Krefeld .
In the 1970s the company published the magazine tischtennis-report .
literature
- BUG: Tamasu Butterfly - Peace, Spring, Joy , DTS magazine , 1999/10 pp. 36–37
- Friedhard Teuffel: Serving butterflies , tischtennis magazine , 2007/1 p. 15