Stanley Electric

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 16,000 employees.[4][5][6]

Not to be confused with Stanley Black & Decker.

Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.
Native name
スタンレー電気株式会社
TypePublic (K.K)
TYO: 6923
ISINJP3399400005
IndustryAutomotive
FoundedDecember 29, 1920 (1920-12-29)
FounderTakaharu Kitano
Headquarters
Nakameguro, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8636
,
Japan
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Takanori Kitano
(President)
Products
Revenue JPY 442.1 billion (FY 2017) (US$ 4.1 billion) (FY 2017)
JPY 36 billion (FY 2017) (US$ 338 million) (FY 2017)
Number of employees
16,687 (consolidated, as of March 31, 2018)
WebsiteOfficial website
Footnotes / references
[1][2][3]

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.[7] Stanley is listed in the TOPIX of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

History

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.[8] At that time, only about 8,000 cars were present in Japan, all of them imported.

  • 1933: Company is incorporated
  • 1934: First branch in Osaka
  • 1954: Start of business relations with Honda
  • 1958: Listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
  • 1965: Start of silicon processing
  • 1968: First international branch in Taiwan
  • 1968: First research center for lightning
  • 1979: First branch in the USA (Stanley US)
  • 1980: Development of colored liquid crystals
  • 1984: Branch in France
  • Until 2009: Many branches in Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia. Stanley and the German company Hella founded a joint venture based in Melbourne in 2002.[9]

Products

Stanley's products include standard headlights (HID) as well as LED headlights. Stanley developed the world's first LED high-mount stop lamp.[10]

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.[11] 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.[12]

Research and development

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.[13][14]

Raybrig in motorsport
Super GT 2011 Rd.6 Fuji GT 250 km: Takuya Izawa (Team Kunimitsu) in a Honda HSV-010 GT with Raybrig as main sponsor

Stanley sells its products under the brand name Raybrig directly to customers and also sponsors Team Kunimitsu in the Super GT.

After winning the 2020 GT 500 Super GT Championship with Team Kunimitsu. Raybrig (Stanley) and Team Kunimitsu part ways after being the team's title sponsor for 25 years.

Social involvement

Founder Kitano also established the Kitano foundation for lifelong education, which awards scholarships to people who can not afford education. The foundation is active in China, Vietnam, the Philippines, India and other countries.[15]

Event sponsorship

Stanley takes part in illumination events worldwide. At festivities marking 150 years of Japanese-German friendship, the Brandenburg gate in Berlin was illuminated with LED floodlights.[16] The Kabuki-za in the Ginza is illuminated every evening by Stanley's LEDs. Both events were conducted in cooperation with lighting artist Makoto Ishii.

References
  1. "Corporate overview". Stanley Electric. Retrieved March 7, 2019.
  2. "About the company". Financial Times. Retrieved March 7, 2019.
  3. "Company Profile". Nikkei Asian Review. Nikkei Inc. Retrieved March 7, 2019.
  4. "Stanley Electric Annual Reports". Retrieved July 10, 2018.
  5. "Stanley Electric Profile". Reuters. Retrieved September 13, 2013.
  6. "Stanleys world bases". Stanley Electric. Retrieved September 13, 2013.
  7. "Stanleys Customers". Stanley Electric. Retrieved September 13, 2013.
  8. "Auto lightning supplier in London back on beam". The Columbus dispatch. November 11, 2012. Retrieved September 13, 2013.
  9. "Hella und Stanley gründen Holding in Melbourne". Motor Talk. March 1, 2002. Archived from the original on June 9, 2013. Retrieved September 12, 2013.
  10. "High mount stop lamps". Stanley Electric. Retrieved September 13, 2013.
  11. "Stanley product index". Stanley Electric. Retrieved September 13, 2013.
  12. "Stanley Electric shifting focus on LED Headlights". Supplier Business. January 8, 2013. Retrieved September 12, 2013.
  13. "Nitrogen/oxygen plasma improves p-type MgZnO for Zinc oxide UV LEDs" (PDF). Semiconductor Today. 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 15, 2013. Retrieved September 13, 2013.
  14. "Modified blackbody radiation spectrum of a selective emitter with application to incandescent light source design". Optics Express. June 7, 2010. Retrieved September 13, 2013.
  15. "Annual Report" (PDF). DK Jain Group (Lumax). 2012. Retrieved September 13, 2013.
  16. "Introduction to the Stanley Group Business" (PDF). Stanley Electric. 2012. Retrieved September 13, 2013.

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