Tamasu (company)

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Tamasu

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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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d 会 社 概要 . In: Butterfly. Tamasu, accessed May 17, 2012 (Japanese).
  2. DTS magazine , 1986/1 p. 37.