Kyosho

Kyosho Corporation

Type
Industry	Manufacturing
Founded	October 10, 1963
Founder	Hisashi Suzuki
Headquarters	Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Key people	Yoshiyuki Chikuba (President) Masayuki Suzuki (Advisor) Akihisa Suzuki (Chairman) Katsumi Watanabe(Director) Naohiko Otsuki(Executive director)
Products	Radio-controlled cars, die-cast models
Operating income	521,160,000 yen (as of April, 2006)
Number of employees	170 (as of April 2006)
Website	www.kyosho.com/

Kyosho Corporation (京商株式会社, Kyōshō Kabushiki Kaisha^?) is a model car company based in Tokyo, Japan. The brand operates internationally under the name KYOSHO. The company's main office is located in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and the production headquarters are located in Atsugi, Kanagawa.

The company is one of the oldest model rc car makers in Japan, and produces a wide variety of products, including radio-controlled cars, planes, helicopters, and boats. Kyosho also produces highly detailed die-cast model cars. Its major competitor in the RC automobile market is Tamiya. Kyosho has avoided direct competition against Tamiya in the hobby grade RC cars market since the 80s and 90s, where Tamiya was most active, focusing instead on designing professional 1/8 scale racing buggies, Mini-Z series, and RC helicopters; areas in which Kyosho dominates today. The company is best known for the Inferno, its 1/8 scale competition buggies; Mini-Z series, and RC helicopters, but it also produces remote-controlled bipedal robots in the Manoi series.

The company was created in October 1963 and created its first trademark R/C car in 1970. Production of die-cast model cars began in 1992.

Kyosho produces a wider range of RC products than any other RC manufacturer, including racing and ready-to-run cars, trucks, excavators, helicopters, scale, sport and warbird RC planes, and a range of RC boats. Having recently acquired Team Orion, Kyosho now has category-leading products in electric motors (brushed and brushless), Ni-MH and Li-PO batteries and battery chargers.

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