GS Yuasa

Type: Public
On the web: http://yuasathai.com

Yuasa Battery (Thailand) is charged with the task of manufacturing automotive and industrial batteries. The company primarily makes batteries for cars, motorcycles, trucks, boats, and agricultural machinery based on technology licensed from Yuasa (Japan). In addition its subsidiaries manufacture batteries for use in industrial applications, including stationary lead-acid and nickel cadmium batteries. Yuasa Battery (Thailand) markets its products domestically and abroad under the private brand names Thunderlite and Yucon. The bulk of its sales come from inside Thailand. Yuasa Battery (Thailand) also imports industrial batteries used in power supply applications from Yuasa (Japan).

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $52.8M
One year growth: (19.2%)
Net income: ($0.9)M

Officers:
Chairman: Chan Manutham
CEO and Director: Katasumi Nakato
COO and Director: Subhavas Bandhuvadh

Competitors:
Panasonic Corp
SANYO
Toshiba

"Yuasa" redirects here. For the town in Wakayama Prefecture, see Yuasa, Wakayama.

GS Yuasa Corporation (株式会社ジーエス・ユアサ コーポレーション, Kabushiki-gaisha GS Yuasa Kōporēshon ^?) (TYO: 6674) is a company that makes lead acid automobile and motorcycle batteries.

Contents 1 Yuasa's history in the U.S. only 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

Yuasa's history in the U.S. only

Yuasa formed a joint-venture company with General Battery Corporation in 1976. Yuasa manufactured its first battery in 1979 in the United States, producing standard conventional and Yumicron 12 volt batteries.

Yuasa developed a maintenance free and gas recombination battery for powersports vehicles in the early 1980’s, and the first AGM battery, intended for ATV applications.

Yuasa was sold by General Battery Corporation to Exide Corporation in 1987 to form Yuasa/Exide Battery Corporation. Yuasa/Exide then purchased Exide's Industrial Division to become Yuasa Inc. in 1991.

After selling off its industrial division to Enersys in 2000, Yuasa Inc. changed its name to Yuasa Battery Inc. In 2004, Yuasa Japan merged with Japan Storage Battery to form GS Yuasa Corporation.

Now the top powersports battery producer, Yuasa provides nearly 90% of the batteries used in powersport vehicles in North America.^[1]

See also

• Mitsubishi

References

1. ^ History of Yuasa on the Yuasa homepage

External links

• GS Yuasa Corporation
• GS Yuasa Lithium Power (USA)
• Yuasa Corporation (Japan) (in Japanese)
• Yuasa Batteries, Inc. (United States)
• History.
• GS Yuasa to provide batteries for Hybrid Cars.
• Mitsubishi forms JV with GS Yuasa to build lithium ion batteries.
• GS Yuasa Selected as Supplier of Li-ion cells for RBSP Mission

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