Buffalo Technology

Melco Holdings Inc.

Type	Public
Traded as	:
Industry	Computer hardware
Founded	1975 (Japan)
Headquarters	Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Key people	Makoto Maki (CEO)
Products	Electronics
Revenue	JPY134.547 billion
Number of employees	50 MELCO group related: 824
Website	http://www.melcoinc.com/

Melco Holdings Inc. is a family business founded by Makoto Maki in 1975 and is located in Japan. The company's most recognizable brand is Buffalo Inc.

Buffalo Inc. is currently one of the 14 subsidiaries of Melco Holdings Inc., initially founded as an audio equipment manufacturer, the company entered the computer peripheral market in 1981 with an EEPROM writer. The name BUFFALO is derived from one of company's first products, a printer buffer and the name for the American Bison (Buffalo). The owner was particularly fond of a National Geographic documentary that chronicled the annual migration including a gruesome crocodile attack.

Melco's name stands for Maki Engineering Laboratory COmpany.

Melco Holdings Inc. was incorporated in 1986; currently its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacture of random access memory products, Flash memory products, USB products, CD-ROM/DVD-RW drives, hard disks, local area network products, printer buffers, Liquid crystal displays, Microsoft Windows accelerators, Personal computer components and CPU accelerators. A subsidiary of Melco provides corporate services in Japan like Internet set-up, Terminal installation/set-up, Computer education and Computer maintenance. The company has also started selling Solid-state drives in Japan.