Brother Industries

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Brother Industries, Ltd. (ブラザー工業株式会社, Burazā Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha^?) (TYO: 6448) is a diversified Japanese company that produces a wide variety of products including sewing machines, large machine tools, label printers, and typewriters, fax machines, printers, multifunction printers and other computer-related electronics. Brother distributes its products both under its own name and under OEM agreements with other companies.

Brother P-Touch 540 label printer

Brother's history began in 1908 when the Yasui Sewing Machine Co. was established in Nagoya, Japan. In 1954, Brother International Corporation (U.S.A.) was established as their first overseas sales affiliate. The corporate name was finally changed to Brother Industries, Ltd. in 1962. Brother entered the printer market during its long association with Centronics.

As of 2004, Brother's annual turnover is in excess of 420 billion yen.^{[citation needed]}

The firm sponsored Manchester City Football Club from 1989 until 1999.

[edit] External links

• Brother Global site
• Brother main site for United States of America
• Brother service centers in India
• Brother service centers in United Kingdom

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