HIROSE

Hirose Electric Group is a Japanese company specializing in the manufacturing of electric connectors. The company was founded in 1937 and started selling internationally in 1968. The annual revenue in 2013 was 95.9 billion yen (104 billion yen in 2006) with a gross profit of 22.3 billion yen (38 billion yen in 2006). There are 5,020 employees, as of 2013. Hiroseis a manufacturer  of a wide variety of high-performance connectors for applications which include computers, peripheral equipment, terminal equipment, mobile/wired/wireless communications equipment, office automation equipment, consumer equipment, control equipment, and automotive uses.