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Apr 1, 2015 · Tetsuro Funai, founder of Japanese TV producer Funai Electric, died on July 4, 2017 at age 90. Funai, the son of a sewing machine manufacturer from Kobe, Japan, started out wholesaling sewing...
Jul 8, 2017 · TOKYO -- Tetsuro Funai may not have been a famous face on the world's TV screens, but he will be sorely missed by the industry that manufactures them. The charismatic founder of Funai Electric...
Tetsuro Funai, the founder of audiovisual electronics maker Funai Electric Co., known for his business strategy of mass producing items at low cost, died of pneumonia at an Osaka hospital on...
At the age of 24, founder Tetsuro Funai established the FUNAI SEWING MACHINE CO. as a wholesaler of sewing machine parts and completed units. The Company started as a small shop with just a few employees.
Founder Tetsuro Funai assumed post of chairman, Tomonori Hayashi became president and CEO.
Funai was founded by Tetsuro Funai, the son of a sewing machine manufacturer. During the 1950s before the company was formed, Funai produced sewing machines and was one of the first Japanese makers to enter the United States retail market.
Tetsuro Funai, the founder of Funai Electric, started his business as a trading company and specialty retailer of sewing machines, and in the late 1950s, when sales of radios caught on with the current trend and sales expanded significantly, he spun off this business and established
