Yonex

Yonex K. K. (Japaneseヨネックス 株式会社, Yonekkusu Kabushiki - gaisha, Eng. Yonex Co., Ltd.. ) is a listed Japanese sporting goods manufacturer, mainly produces equipment for badminton, golf and tennis. It establishes racquets, golf clubs, sports shoes, shuttlecocks and other equipment for these sports. The stock symbol is TYO 7906th

History

The company was founded in April 1946 by Minoru Yoneyama and exhibited, among other wooden float for the purse seine fishery ago. With the introduction of floats made ​​of plastic Yonex was forced out of this market. Yoneyama 1957 began with the manufacture of badminton racquets for other brands. 1958, the company in Yoneyama Manufacturing Ltd. was. renamed. 1962, the first badminton racket brand Yoneyama was presented and a year later was Yoneyama Sports Ltd. established to sell products worldwide can. In 1966, the recent name change to Yoneyama Racquets Ltd..

After the company had begun to manufacture badminton rackets made of aluminum, they decided in 1969 tennis racquets for sale. 1974 the company was renamed after Yonex Sports Ltd.

1981 Yonex Sports was founded in West Germany. As Yonex experimented with graphitenen bat necks for badminton and tennis rackets, it turned out that this could also be useful for golf clubs. Therefore Yonex rose in 1982 to the golf shop. In the same year the name was changed after Yonex Co., Ltd. was. In 1987, the Yonex UK Ltd. and Yonex Taiwan Co., Ltd.. founded and in 1991 the Yonex Canada Ltd..

In 1992, before the racket Yonex Isometric 500, which no teardrop shaped clubhead had as the previous bat. The more rectangular head gave the club a much larger effective hitting area and meant that other manufacturers followed suit, bat with "square -head" - introducing or " Isometric " design. 1994 Yonex went to the Tokyo Stock Exchange.