Mikasa (sporting goods)
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| legal form | Kabushiki kaisha (joint stock company) |
| founding | May 1917 |
| Seat | Hiroshima , Japan |
| management | Taketoshi Saeki (President and CEO) |
| Number of employees | 124 (2010) |
| sales | 6.3 billion yen (2009) |
| Branch | Sporting goods |
| Website | mikasasports.co.jp |
Mikasa is a Japanese sporting goods manufacturer. It was founded in Hiroshima ( Japan ) in 1917 as Masuda Rubber Industries . MIKASA has been making the match balls for all FIVB events and the Olympic Games since 1964 . Since 1982, Mikasa products have been sold in Germany by Hammer Sport AG, based in Neu-Ulm. In 2000, Mikasa presented the first colored indoor volleyball MVP 200 and in 2008 presented the first indoor volleyball with eight (instead of the previous 18) flame-shaped panel parts - the MVA 200.
As the ball supplier (volleyball / beach volleyball) for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, MIKASA provides the game balls. In water polo, too, Mikasa is the official match ball for the Olympic Games and World Championships. The company's other products include basketballs and ball accessories.
partner
In Germany, Mikasa is a partner of the DVV ( German Volleyball Association ) and the DVJ (German Volleyball Youth) as well as eleven other regional associations:
- Bavarian Volleyball Association
- Bremen Volleyball Association
- Hessian volleyball association
- Lower Saxony volleyball association
- North Baden Volleyball Association
- Saarland volleyball association
- Volleyball Association Saxony-Anhalt
- Schleswig-Holstein Volleyball Association
- South Baden volleyball association
- Thuringian Volleyball Association
- State volleyball association Württemberg.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Mikasa Corporate Profile. Retrieved June 21, 2010 .
- ↑ Mikasa Company History ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed June 21, 2010
- ↑ Mikasa.de: Geschichte ( Memento of the original from August 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed June 21, 2010
