Kozaburo Hosoda, the youngest brother of “Erihan”, Kyoto, established “Hosoda Ko Store”.
Started business, acquiring sales rights for Osaka area, of tungsten filament,
Mallory Corp, of USA.

Acquired exclusive import distributorship from Mallory Corp.

Took first step of “Electrical Hosoda”, expanding business of electrical appliance.

Established “Hosoda Trading Co., Ltd.”
Mr Kozaburo Hosoda became the 1st president.

Started trading business by establishing export division.
Succeeded in export big volume of fans.

Established Thai branch office.
Established “Toa Yakin”, for manufacturing/sales of domestic tungsten filament.

Established Shanghai branch office.
Regular trades were at a standstill, by expanding wars.　
Managed operation of telephone factory, in Shanghai, by corporation with Oki Electric Industry.
All the foreign facilities confiscated after defeat in war.

Re-established the company by Mr Tsukuda, Senior Managing Director.

Transferred “Toa Yakin” to “Nippon Mining”, due to difficulties to obtain raw materials of tungsten filament intervene by Navy .
Started manufacturing/sales of telephone, in Shanghai, with corporation with Oki Electric Industry.
Started manufacturing of electrical cable, battery and communication equipment in Thailand.

Shanghai and Thai branch offices requisitioned after defeat in war.

Mr Tsukuda acceded as the 2nd president
Moved head office to 15-7, Nishitemma 5-Chome, Kita-Ku, Osaka.
Started handling electrical wire and light bulb, and supplying to the Occupation Forces.

Recovered demands by Indian buyers and encouraging priority foreign currency system via re-activation of private trading.

Established Tokyo branch office
Fully in progress for export business of electrical parts/home appliance, general electrical appliance, electrical wire and light bulb.

Agreed contract for export of electrical parts with Argentina leading buyers.

Established sales routes for Middle/South America, by setting agent in Peru, Chile and Venezuela.

Re-established Thai branch office, a pioneer of foreign market bases, expanding to 8 countries.

Started export paint by corporation of Thai agent establishment with Kansai Paint Co., Ltd..

Established “Manila Liaison Office”.

Established “Hong Kong Liaison Office”.

Reorganized "Thai Branch Office" to “Banwa Trading Ltd., Partnership”, local corporate.

Mr Takei acceded as the 3rd President

Established “Taiwan Liaison Office”.
Established a joint venter, “Thai Kansai Paint Co., Ltd”, in Thailand, by with “Kansai Paint Co., Ltd.” and Thai local partner.

Established “Tehran Liaison Office”.

Established a joint venture, “Siam Electric Industry. Co., Ltd”, in Thailand, with “Mitsui & Co”, “Sumitomo Electric Industries” and Thai local partner, for enamel wire manufacturing.
Established a joint venture, “Aiphone USA Inc.”, in USA, as Joint Venture with Aiphone Co., Ltd., American and Canadian local partners, for distributing intercoms in north American market.

Reorganized "Hong Kong Liaison Office" to “Bansei Trading Co., Ltd”, local corporate.
Reorganized "Taiwan Liaison Office" to “Banrock Trading Co. Ltd.”, local corporate.

Established “Singapore Liaison Office”.

Reorganized "Singapore Liaison Office" to “Banshing & Co., (PTE) Ltd.), local corporate.

Sold shared stock of Siam Electric Industry Co. Ltd to “Sumitomo Electric Industries”.

Re-named “Banshing & Co (PTE) Ltd.” to “Hosoda (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.”.

Re-named “Banwa Trading Ltd., Partnership”
to “Hosoda (Thailand) Co, Ltd.”
Established a joint venture, “Mahajak International Electric Co. Ltd.” With Fuji Electric Co, “Lucky Gold Star” and Thai local partner for watthour meter manufacturing.

Re-named "Bansei Trading Co., Ltd.” to “Hosoda (Hong Kong) Ltd.”.
Established “Buenos Aires Liaison Office” in Argentina.

Mr Okada accede as the 4th President.

Closed “Manila Liaison Office”, due to unstable political & economical situation.
Established “Guangzhou Liaison Office”, under Hosoda (Hong Kong) Ltd.
Started plant export business.

Re-named “Banrock Trading Co., Ltd.” to “Hosoda Taiwan Limited”.
Reformed investors of Aiphone Corporation to two parties, Aiphone Co., Ltd. and Hosoda Trading Co., Ltd..
Closed “Buenos Aires Liaison Office” due to economy situation.

Established a joint venture, “Iwasaki Electric Singapore Pte Ltd”, in Singapore, with “Iwasaki Electric” and Singapore local partner for lighting products distribution.

Mr Ishizu acceded as the 5th President
Established a joint venture “Iwasaki Electric (Hong Kong) Ltd.”, in Hong Kong, with “Iwasaki Electric” and Hong Kong local partner for lighting product distribution.
Closed “Teheran Liaison Office”, due to economy situation.

Sold shared stock of “Iwasaki Electric Singapore Pte. Ltd” to “Iwasaki Electric”.

Mr Wada acceded as the 6th President

Established “Cairo Liaison Office” and expanded export business of home appliance and AV products to Egypt.
Re-named “Iwasaki Electric (Hong Kong)” to “EYE Lighting (Hong Kong)”.

Mr Tomiyama acceded as the 7th President.
Established “Hosoda Trading (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.”.

Established Shenzhen office as branch of Hosoda (Hong Kong) Ltd.

Mr Nagatsuka acceded as the 8th President.

Closed “Hosoda Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.”.
Established “Hanoi Liaison Office”, starting SMT service center business.

Mr Hatai acceded as the 9th President

Closed “Shenzhen office, Branch of Hosoda (Hong Kong) Ltd.
Integrated Tokyo branch into Osaka Head office

Established “Hosoda International Co., Ltd.” in Thailand.
Established “Yangon Liaison Office”.

Established a joint venture, “El Araby International Ltd” in Thailand, with El Araby Holding Co., Egypt, and All Brillant Co., Ltd, Hong Kong as IPO to El Araby, Egypt.

Established “Dubai Liaison Office”.
Established “Kanto Sales Office” in Shin-Yokohama, Yokohama

Started import/assembly/sales of smart meters to Japanese electric power utilities.

Incorporation of holding company in March.
Split-up into HOSODA LTD. And Hosoda Trading Co., Ltd. in September.

Reorganized “Cairo Liaison Office” to “Hosoda Egypt Limited LLC”, local corporate.

Reorganized "Hanoi Representative Office" to "HOSODA (VIETNAM) CO., LTD.", local corporate.