Mizuno Corporation
Mizuno K. K. (Japanese美 津 浓 株式会社, Mizuno Kabushiki - gaisha, Eng. Mizuno Corporation) is a Japanese sports clothing and sporting goods manufacturer that produces for a variety of sports equipment, including baseball, football, golf, handball, judo, athletics, table tennis and volleyball. Renowned the company is in the field of golf club manufacturing. It was founded in 1906 in Osaka by Rihachi Mizuno and 1923 as Mizuno undo Yohin KK (美 津 浓 运动 用品 株式会社, dt " Sports Goods Mizuno " ) as KK account. He is listed under TYO 8022 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Sports sponsor
Mizuno maintains a proprietary Athletics Team Mizuno Track Club (MTC ), to which, among other hammer thrower Koji Murofushi and Shingo Suetsugu Sprinter belong. Non-employees sponsored athletes are summarized in Team Mizuno Athletic (TMA ). These now urges the sporting goods manufacturers on the German market. Since the season 2011/12 is Mizuno shoe supplier to the Handball Bundesliga side VfL Gummersbach and TBV Lemgo. The German professional golfer Marcel Siem plays as a multiple PGA European Tour winner with clubs from Mizuno.
Aircraft
From the 30th anniversary of the business activities of the Mizuno Kyodai Shokai (水 野 兄弟 商会, Eng. Mizuno Brothers Ltd. ) In Osaka began the Mizuno glider factory Mizuno Glider Seisakusho (美津濃 グライダー, Mizuno guraidā seisakusho製作所) to build 1936 gliders. The theme was sports: From the land sea and in the air. Within a few years the Mizuno gliders achieved Japanese records for altitude and flight duration.
Trivia
The deputies in the Texas Senate, Wendy Davis wore during a 11 -hour- filibuster speech to prevent a more restrictive abortion laws in Texas, where you could not sit down in accordance with the regulations, pink shoes of the brand. The shoe model was then increased to a symbol and its sales.
Since the 2011 season is Mizuno forth uniform Baseball balls for the Japanese leagues in NPB. In June 2013 it was announced that for the 2013 season lighter and smaller balls were made to increase the number of homeruns. This led to a scandal in Japanese baseball.