Native name
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スタンレー電気株式会社 |
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Romanized name
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Sutanrē Denki KK |
Kabushikigaisha | |
Traded as | : |
Industry | Lighting |
Founded | 29 December 1920 |
Founder | Takanori Kitano |
Headquarters | Tokyo, Japan |
Area served
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Worldwide |
Products | Headlamps, LEDs |
Revenue | ¥236.1 billion (Fiscal Year 2012) |
Number of employees
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over 13.000 (2012) |
Website | www.stanley.co.jp |
Stanley Electric Co., Ltd. (スタンレー電気株式会社, Sutanrē Denki Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese company, producing electric light sources. Stanley has 36 consolidated subsidiaries, three associated companies, 23 factories in eight countries, offices in 17 countries and over 13,000 employees.
The main customers for its core business (automotive lighting) are Honda and Nissan. Other customers using Stanley's products include Toyota, Mazda, Suzuki, Mitsubishi, Ford and Chrysler. Stanley is listed in the TOPIX of the .
The company was founded in 1920 by Takaharu Kitano, who named the company after the British-American explorer Henry Morton Stanley famous for exploring Africa. As the company states, Kitano was impressed by Stanley's vision, courage and pioneering spirit. At that time, only about 8,000 cars were present in Japan, all of them imported.
Stanley's products include standard headlights (HID) as well as LED headlights. Stanley developed the world's first LED high-mount stop lamp.
Stanley also produces all types of automotive lighting, backlighted LED displays, camera flashes, automotive interior displays, sensors, light fixtures and streetlights, as used in Shanghai and Tokyo. From 2013 onward, Stanley will concentrate more on the development of LED headlights and plans to raise the LED share from 1% to 20% by 2017.
Stanley does R&D at 5 research centers in Japan, where new light sources are explored, present light sources are optimized and new products are developed. One of those centers is located in the city of Tsukuba. Besides that, picoprojectors with MEMS and biotechnology are explored. Research results are regularly published in scientific journals.