Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.

About Stanley Electric

Stanley Electric Co., Ltd. is a Japanese company for electric and electronic lamps founded in 1920 by Takaharu Kitano and headquartered in Tokyo. Its core business is automotive lighting, including headlights with HID and LED technology; Stanley developed the world's first LED-based center high-mount stop lamp. The product portfolio also includes LED backlighting for displays, flash lights for mobile phones and cameras, displays for vehicle interiors, sensors as well as room and street lighting. Key customers are Honda and Nissan; Toyota, Mazda, Suzuki, Mitsubishi, Ford and Chrysler are also supplied. The company operates five research centers in Japan, including one in Tsukuba, conducting research on new light sources, MEMS pico projectors and biotechnology. Stanley Electric is represented by 36 consolidated subsidiaries, three affiliated companies, 23 factories in eight countries and offices in 17 countries, and employs more than 16,000 people. The shares are traded in the TOPIX index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Site

Tokyo

Materials

LED Technology, HID Lamps, MEMS

Founded

1920

Employees

over 16,000

Industries

Automotive, Electronics, Lighting industry, Street lighting

1. 01

   Development of new light sources and optimization of existing lighting

2. 02

   Product development

3. 03

   Manufacturing of automotive lighting and LED products

4. 04

   Sales to automotive manufacturers and industrial sectors

Technologies and Processes

Locations

Products

Inside the production

Company History

1. 1920

   Founded as Kitano Shokai by Takaharu Kitano

2. 1933

   Converted into a Kabushiki gaisha, renamed after Henry Morton Stanley

3. 1934

   First branch office in Osaka

4. 1943–1949

   Company known as Kitano Denki Kogyo Co., Ltd.

5. 1954

   Start of trading relations with Honda

6. 1961

   Initial public offering on the Tokyo Stock Exchange

7. 1965

   Start of silicon processing

8. 1968

   First international branch in Taiwan

9. 1969

   Establishment of the first lighting research center

10. 1976

    Start of manufacturing of especially high-brightness LEDs

11. 1979

    First branch in the USA (Stanley US)

12. 1980

    Development of colored liquid crystals

13. 1984

    Establishment of a research center in Tsukuba and a branch in France

14. 2002

    Joint holding with Hella KGaA Hueck & Co. founded in Melbourne

15. 2011

    LED illumination of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin

16. 2013

    LED installation at the Kabuki-za, Ginza, Tokyo; announcement to increase LED headlight share to 20%

17. 2026

    Iwasaki Denki joins the Stanley Electric Group