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History

1871 First year of modern business
1904 Company symbol createdKoizumi Unlimited Partnership established
1943 Goko Seiki Kogyo Co., Ltd., Osaka aircraft gauge manufacture
and sales business, purchased Capital ¥190 thousand
(Koizumi Sangyo Corporation predecessor established)
1945 Factory closed at the end of the war and transferred
to affiliated company Koizumi Co., Ltd.
1946 Name changed to Koizumi Sangyo Corporation
Operations restarted with focus on the manufacture
and wholesaling of electrical, gas and petroleum instruments
1953 Tokyo sales office opened
1957 Lighting business focus begun
1961 Hiroshima and Fukuoka sales offices opened
1962 Nagoya sales office opened
1965 Capital increased to ¥250 million
1967 Furniture business focus begun
1972 Soka distribution center opened in Soka-shi, Saitama
1973 Capital increased to ¥1 billion
1974 Capital increased to ¥1.5 billion
1976 Lighting Creative Room (LCR) established
1978 Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry recognized Koizumi
for an “Enterprise Century”
1979 Capital increased to ¥1.575 billion
1981 New Sendai sales office building completed
MATEC Corporation, Hello Living Co., Ltd. established
1982 Lighting Caravan mobile showroom started
1986 CI strategy initiated and New Wave business focus begun
Facility lighting business emphasized
(Change from Hikari brand to Koizumi brand)
1987 Construction industry certification (electrical installation) received
Ordinary type 2 electrical transmission certification
(Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications) received
Koizumi International Lighting Design Competition for Students started
1990 Koizumi lifestyle showroom IZML Osaka opened
Tokyo Branch completed Koizumi Lighting Theater IZM opened
1991 Koizumi Technology Development Center opened
Koizumi Lighting Corporation established
as a directly managed lighting fixture manufacturing plant
1993 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Koizumi Sangyo Group
Birdhouse exhibition sponsored
1994 New Higashi-Osaka office building completed
(product development investigation office and photography studio opened)
Koizumi Lightworks Studio izm ATC opened
1995 Koizumi Lighting Square izmL Yokohama opened
1996 Koizumi Lightworks Studio izm Hiroshima opened
Milan office opened
1997 New head office building completed
1999 Koizumi Lighting Square IZML ATC opened
2000 Dongguan, China office opened
2001 Dalian, China office opened
ISO9001 certification received
2002 ISO14001 certification received
Koizumi Sangyo (H.K.) Co., Ltd. established
2003 Koizumi Sangyo Group 60th anniversary
2005 Koizumi Lighting showroom Nagoya renewal opened
2006 In April, Koizumi Lighting Technology Corporation (capital ¥300 million) founded
as an independent company from Koizumi Sangyo Corporation
2007 Koizumi Lighting showroom Fukuoka renewal opened
Koizumi Lighting showroom Tokyo renewal opened
A base office of marketing strategy “OBAL” opened
2008 LED light product series “cledy” placed on the market
Koizumi Lighting showroom Osaka renewal opened
2009 Capital increased to ¥450 million
High color rendering LED (Ra97) products announced in Lighting Fair