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Find your next innovation
FOR-A Company Limited celebrates its 50th year in business in 2021. Through its new company slogan, FOR-A invites broadcast and video professionals to ‘find your next innovation’ during its year-long celebration. The company has updated the for-a.com website to highlight the milestone and provide easier navigation for visitors. “Since its founding in October 1971, FOR-A Company Limited has adopted cutting-edge technologies to provide a wide range of products to countless customers,” says Katsuaki Kiyohara, president and representative director of FOR-A Company Limited. “Rather than resting on our past success,
Profile of company Chairman and Representative Director: Keizo Kiyohara President and Representative Director: Katsuaki Kiyohara Established: October 1971 Paid in Capital: 450 million yen Annual Sales: 10.385 billion yen (2020.09 achievement) Employees: 260 (820 total within FOR-A group)
we are using our 50th anniversary to rededicate ourselves to delivering affordable, high-end video solutions.” FOR-A is associated with 12 group companies in Japan as well as six overseas subsidiaries across the globe, The company’s 50th anniversary logo evokes the concept of continually evolving without limits – and its blue colour, a shade associated with the vastness of the sea and sky, conveys a sense of moving toward a brilliant future. FOR-A’s first product was the VTG-32, the world’s first production timer. In 1981, it introduced the FA-410P, which was considered the best time base corrector in the market at the time. Eight years
