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Mabuchi Motor

Mabuchi Motor Company
Native name
マブチモーター株式会社
Public
Traded as :
Industry Small DC motors
Predecessor Kansai Rika Kenkyusho (a scientific research institute), followed by Tokyo Science Industrial Co. Ltd., Japan Science and Industry Co. Ltd., Mabuchi Shoji Co. Ltd., Mabuchi Industrial Co., Ltd., and Tokyo Science Co., Ltd.
Founded 1946; 71 years ago (1946)
Founder Kenichi Mabuchi
Headquarters 430 Matsuhidai 270-2280, Matsudo, Chiba, Japan
Number of locations
10 sales offices, 13 factories and 2 R&D centers
Area served
World
Key people
Products Small electric motors for automobiles, audiovisual equipment, home appliances, power tools, toys, etc.
Production output
1.4 billion small DC motors
Revenue Increase¥108.401 billion
Increase¥9.335 billion
Increase¥10.519 billion
Total assets Increase¥227.253 billion
Total equity Increase¥20.704 billion
Owner Major shareholders include: Takaichi Mabuchi (7.2%); Mabuchi International Scholarship Foundation (4.3%); Japan Trustee Services Bank, Ltd. (Trust) (4.3%); The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Ltd. (Trust) (3.9%); Takashi Mabuchi (3.0%); Tamotsu Mabuchi (3.0%); Premiere Corporation (3.0%); Taka Corporation Co., Ltd. (3.0%); TEXAS Inc. (2.7%); The Bank of New York Non-Treaty JASDEC Account (1.9%)
Number of employees
Decrease25,843 worldwide, 740 in headquarters
Divisions Internal Audit Dept., Business Platform Innovation HQ, Cross Functional Team, IT, Corporate Planning, Admin. HQ, Operations Control HQ, Sales & Marketing HQ, R&D HQ, Quality Assurance
Subsidiaries 21 in total located in USA, Mexico, Germany, China & Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Vietnam, and Singapore
Website Official website
Footnotes / references
All numbers, except for number of employees (2015), are for 2014 and taken from the 2014 annual report

Mabuchi Motor Company (マブチモーター株式会社, Mabuchi Mōtā Kabushiki Kaisha?) is a Japanese manufacturing company based in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It is the world's largest manufacturer by volume of small electric motors, producing over 1.4 billion motors annually. The company employs 24,286 people in its production division, 755 in its administrative division, 583 in its R&D division, and 219 in its sales division.

Mabuchi Motor holds 70% of the market for motors used with automotive door mirrors, door locks, and air conditioning damper actuators. Sales of power window lifter motors are on the rise. The company's ratio of consolidated markets is 64.3% automotive products and 35.7% consumer and industrial products. Applications for Mabuchi brushed DC electric motors and brushless electric motors include power drills, lawn mowers, vibrating cell phones and video game controllers, vibrators, vacuum cleaners, toy cars and planes, CD, DVD and Blu-ray players, digital cameras, computer printers, electric fans, electric razors, washing machines, electric tooth brushes, and blow dryers.

Mabuchi Motor's head office is located near Matsuhidai station on the Hokuso line linking Narita airport with downtown Tokyo. The company is managed by a board of directors which includes two outside directors. For the purpose of creating an environment for investors to invest more easily and for expanding liquidity and enlarging the investor base of the stock, Mabuchi Motor split each share of its common stock into two shares on January 1, 2015, with the number of shares outstanding rising from 37.875 million in 2014 to 70.927 million in 2015.


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