Makita Corporation (株式会社マキタ) (tyo: 6586) is a Japanese manufacturer of power tools. Founded on March 21, 1915, it is based in Anjō, Japan and operates factories in Brazil, China, Japan, Mexico, Romania, the United Kingdom, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Canada, and the United States.[2][3]
History
In March 1915, Mosaburo Makita (b. 1893)[4] founded Makita Electric Works in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan and began selling and repairing lighting equipment, motors and transformers.[5] In 1958, Makita marketed a portable electrical planer in Japan and became a manufacturer of power tools the following year.