Furuno Electric Co., Ltd.

Native name	古野電気株式会社
Company type	Public KK
Traded as	TYO: 6814
Industry	Electronics
Founded	Nagasaki (1948; 76 years ago (1948))
Founder	Kiyotaka Furuno
Headquarters	9-52 Ashihara-cho, Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture 662-8580, Japan
Key people	Yukio Furuno (President)
Products	Marine electronics Medical equipment Meteorological instrumentation
Revenue	US$ 700 million (FY 2017) (JPY 78.67 billion) (FY 2017)
Net income	US$ 11.5 million (FY 2017) (JPY 13 billion) (FY 2017)
Number of employees	2,836 (consolidated, as of February 28, 2014)
Website	furuno.co.jp
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Furuno Electric Co., Ltd. (古野電気株式会社, Furuno Denki Kabushiki-gaisha) (commonly known as Furuno) is a Japanese electronics company whose main products are marine electronics, including marine radar systems, fish finders, and navigational instruments. The company also manufactures global positioning systems and medical equipment, and entered the weather radar market in 2013.^[2]

History

Furuno Electric Shokai was founded in Nagasaki, Japan in 1948. The same year, Furuno commercialized the world's first practical fish finder. Manufacturing continued to ramp up as the decade came to a close, and by the mid-1950s, Furuno was producing various Marine supplements, such as early examples of commercial Marine radars. In 1973, Furuno created an early iteration of satellite positioning receivers for vessels at sea. Later that decade, Furuno entered the United States market, establishing an HQ in the United States as Furuno USA.^[3] Following this expansion and continued growth, Furuno continued expanding their marine-based radar products. In 2009, Furuno acquired San Francisco based eRide, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company.^[4] Following this acquisition, in 2013, Furuno introduced an X-band weather radar, the smallest of its kind.^[5] In 2015, the company's GNSS Receiver Modules were used in radio controlled flying quadcopters.^[6]