Stanley Denki
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| legal form | Kabushiki kaisha (joint stock company) |
| ISIN | JP3399400005 |
| founding | December 29, 1920 |
| Seat | Meguro , Tokyo , Japan |
| management | Takanori Kitano |
| Number of employees | 13,410 (as of 2012) |
| sales | 263.1 billion yen (equivalent to approx. 2.1 billion euros ) |
| Branch | Suppliers to the automotive industry , semiconductors , lighting technology |
| Website | www.stanley.co.jp |
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Stanley Denki KK ( Japanese ス タ ン レ ー 電 気 株式会社 , Sutanrē Denki Kabushiki kaisha , English Stanley Electric Co., Ltd. ) is a Japanese company that manufactures electrical and electronic lighting equipment. With 36 consolidated subsidiaries, three associated companies, 23 factories in eight countries, branches in 17 countries and over 12,000 employees, Stanley is a large Japanese company.
The main customers for the core business ( vehicle lighting ) are Honda and Nissan ; Toyota , Mazda , Suzuki , Mitsubishi , Ford and Chrysler are also supplied. Stanley Electric shares are traded on TOPIX on the Tokyo Stock Exchange .
history
The company was founded in 1920 by Takaharu Kitano , who named the company after Henry Morton Stanley , a British-American African explorer. According to the company, he was impressed by the vision, courage and pioneering spirit of the researcher. At that time there were only about 8,000 vehicles in all of Japan, all of which had been imported.
- 1933: The company is converted into a stock corporation
- 1934: First branch in Osaka
- 1954: Start of trade relations with Honda
- 1958: Start of stock trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
- 1965: Start of silicon processing
- 1968: First international branch in Taiwan
- 1969: Establishment of the first research center for lighting
- 1976: Start of production of particularly bright LEDs
- 1979: First branch in the USA (Stanley US)
- 1980: Development of colored liquid crystals
- 1984: Establishment of a research center in Tsukuba
- 1984: Branch in France
- Until 2009: Numerous branch offices in Europe, South and North America, Asia and Australia. Among other things, Stanley Denki and the German Hella KGaA Hueck & Co. founded a joint holding company based in Melbourne in 2002 in order to take globalization in the automotive industry into account.
Products
In addition to conventional headlights ( HID lamps ), the product range includes LED-based light sources in particular. Stanley developed the world's first LED-based brake light .
In addition, Stanley manufactures and develops all vehicle lighting , LED backlighting for displays, mobile phone and camera flash lights , displays for vehicle interiors, sensors, as well as general room and street lighting (e.g. in Shanghai and Tokyo ).
Stanley Denki will concentrate even more on LED headlights from 2013 and wants to increase their share of total sales from 1% to 20% by 2017.
Research & Development
Stanley operates five research centers in Japan that research new light sources, optimize current light sources and develop new products. One of the centers is u. a. in Tsukuba . In addition, work is being carried out on picoprojectors with MEMS and research in biotechnology . Research results are published regularly in specialist journals (e.g. SemiConductor Today, Optics Express).
Raybrig & Motorsport
Under “ Raybrig ”, Stanley also sells its lamps directly to consumers and is active in motorsport with the brand as the main sponsor of the Kunimitsu team in the Super GT .
social commitment
Stanley founder Kitano also founded the Kitano Foundation for lifelong Education, which aims to award scholarships to economically disadvantaged people. The foundation is u. a. active in India .
Trivia
Stanley participates in lighting events around the world. As part of the celebrations for 150 years of German-Japanese relations, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin was illuminated with LED headlights. In Tokyo , the Kabuki-za theater in Ginza is also illuminated by Stanley LEDs every evening. Both illuminations were created in collaboration with Makoto Ishii .
Web links
- Company website (Japanese, English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Stanley Electric Profile. Reuters, accessed September 13, 2013 .
- ^ Stanley's world bases. Stanley Electric, accessed September 13, 2013 .
- ^ Stanley's Customers. Stanley Electric, accessed September 13, 2013 .
- ↑ Auto lightning supplier in London back on beam. The Columbus dispatch, November 11, 2012, accessed on September 13, 2013 .
- ↑ Hella and Stanley found a holding company in Melbourne. Motor Talk, March 1, 2002, accessed September 12, 2013 .
- ↑ High mount stop lamps. Stanley Electric, accessed September 13, 2013 .
- ^ Stanley product index. Stanley Electric, accessed September 13, 2013 .
- ^ Stanley Electric shifting focus on LED headlights. Supplier Business, January 8, 2013, accessed September 12, 2013 .
- ^ Future Research Laboratory. Stanley Electric, accessed September 13, 2013 .
- ↑ Nitrogen / oxygen plasma improves p-type MgZnO for Zinc oxide UV LEDs. (PDF; 1.3 MB) (No longer available online.) Semiconductor Today, 2011, archived from the original on May 15, 2013 ; accessed on September 13, 2013 . 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.
- ↑ Modified blackbody radiation spectrum of a selective emitter with application to incandescent light source design. Optics Express, June 7, 2010, accessed September 13, 2013 .
- ↑ Annual Report. (PDF; 905 kB) DK Jain Group (Lumax), 2012, accessed on September 13, 2013 (English).
- ^ Introduction to the Stanley Group Business. (PDF; 8.1 MB) Stanley Electric, 2012, accessed on September 13, 2013 (English).
