Funai
Funai Electric Co., Ltd. (船井電機株式会社, Funai Denki Kabushiki Gaisha) is a Japanese consumer electronics company headquartered in Daitō, Osaka. Apart from producing its own branded electronic products, it is also an OEM providing assembled televisions and video players/recorders to major corporations such as Sharp, Toshiba, Denon, and others. Funai supplies inkjet printer hardware technology to Dell and Lexmark, and produces printers under the Kodak name.
Native name | 船井電機株式会社 |
|---|---|
Romanized name | Funai Denki kabushiki gaisha |
| Company type | Public KK |
| TYO: 6839 | |
| Industry | Electronics |
| Founded | 1961 |
| Founder | Tetsuro Funai |
| Headquarters | , Japan |
Key people | Koji Bando (Chairman and CEO Hideaki Funakoshi (Vice Chairman) |
| Revenue | ¥246,100 million (2012) |
| Owner | Funai family (39.39%) |
Number of employees | 2,861 (2011) |
| Website | www |
Its United States-based subsidiary Funai Corporation, Inc., based in Torrance, California, markets Funai products in the US, along with Funai-licensed brands including Philips, Magnavox, Emerson Radio, and Sanyo. Funai is the main supplier of electronics to Walmart and Sam's Club stores in the US, with production output in excess of 2 million flat-panel televisions during the summertime per year for Black Friday sale.