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| Company type | Public KK |
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| TYO: 7242 | |
| Industry | Automotive |
| Founded | (November 19, 1919) |
| Founder | Shiro Kayaba |
| Headquarters | World Trade Center Building, 4-1, Hamamatsu-cho 2-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-6111, Japan |
Key people | Tadahiko Ozawa (Chairman) Masao Usui (President and CEO) |
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| Revenue |  US$ 3.42 billion (FY 2013)
(JPY 352.71 billion) (FY 2013) |
| US$ 123.89 million (FY 2013)
(JPY 12.76 billion) (FY 2013) | |
Number of employees | 14,754 (consolidated, as of March 31, 2018) |
| Website | Official website |
| Footnotes / references [1][2] | |
KYB Corporation (KYB株式会社, KYB kabushiki gaisha, formerly Kayaba Kogyo kabushiki gaisha (カヤバ工業株式会社) until 1 October 2015) is a Japanese, Tokyo-based automotive company.[3]
Among KYB's main products company are shock absorbers, air suspensions, power steering systems, hydraulic pumps, motors, cylinders, and valves.[4] It is one of the world's largest shock absorber manufacturers and it also has the largest market share of concrete mixer trucks in Japan, with 85% of the market.[5]
The company has 34 manufacturing plants and 62 offices in 21 countries.[6] KYB's American aftermarket distribution of automotive shocks and struts is headquartered in Greenwood, Indiana, with additional KYB manufacturing and distribution facilities in metro Chicago, Southern California, and metro Indianapolis.[7] KYB Americas employs more than 100 people in all facilities. Shocks and struts for vehicles are the most popular KYB products distributed in North America.
- ^ "Corporate Information". KYB Corporation. Archived from the original on February 5, 2015. Retrieved February 5, 2015.
- ^ "Company Profile". Nikkei Asian Review. Nikkei Inc. Retrieved April 1, 2018.
- ^ "Company Profile". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved February 5, 2015.
- ^ "Company Snapshot". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved February 5, 2015.
- ^ Vishal Dutta (February 19, 2013). "Japanese MNC KYB Corporation acquires 50% stake in Conmat Systems". The Economic Times. Retrieved February 5, 2015.
- ^ "Modernized manufacturing unit of Japanese firm KYB to be opened in November". Vadodara: DeshGujarat. October 7, 2014. Retrieved February 5, 2015.
- ^ "KYB in North America". Retrieved November 18, 2020.
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