Mizuno (company)

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Mizuno Corporation

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legal form Kabushiki kaisha (joint stock company)
founding 1906
Seat Osaka
management Akito Mizuno
Number of employees 5365 (March 31, 2015)
sales 154.982 billion yen ($ 1.54 billion, March 31, 2012 )
Branch Sporting goods manufacturer
Website www.mizuno.com

Headquarters in Osaka

Mizuno KK ( Japanese 美 津 濃 株式会社 , Mizuno Kabushiki kaisha , English Mizuno Corporation ) is a Japanese sportswear and sporting goods manufacturer that produces equipment for numerous sports, including baseball , soccer , golf , tennis , handball , rugby , judo , athletics , Table tennis , badminton , volleyball , netball , korfball and more. It is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange under the TYO 8022 .

Mizuno manufactures equipment for athletes for types of running such as trail running, performance running and road running. The company is also renowned in the field of golf club production.

Mizuno equips various football players with shoes, including the Brazilian Hulk as well as Lazar Marković and Keisuke Honda . Mizuno has been back on the tennis market since 2016 and signed Philipp Kohlschreiber, one of the best German tennis players.

Aircraft construction

From the 30th anniversary of the business activities of Mizuno Kyōdai Shōkai ( 水 野 兄弟 商会 , English: Mizuno Brothers Ltd. ) in Osaka, the Mizuno glider factory Mizuno Glider Seisakusho ( 美 津 濃 グ ラ イ ダ 製作 所 , Mizuno glacier ) began to build 1936isakuid also gliders. The topic was sport: from land to sea and into the air . Within a few years, the Mizuno gliders achieved Japanese records for altitude and flight duration.

history

The company was founded by Rihachi Mizuno in Osaka in 1906 and registered as KK in 1923 as Mizuno Undō Yōhin KK ( 美 津 濃 d 用品 株式会社 , dt. "Sports goods Mizuno").

Web links

Commons : Mizuno  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ispo-newsblog.com Mizuno is making headway in terms of sales and profits ( Memento from January 26, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ^ Football Players. Mizuno Germany. In: mizuno.eu. Retrieved July 9, 2014 .
  3. Company history ( Memento of the original from February 10, 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. from Mizuno's homepage, accessed December 29, 2009. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / golf.mizunoeurope.com