Corporate Facts

Company Name HONMA GOLF CO.,LTD.
Founded Feb 18,1959
Feb 18,1959 March 31
Employees 721 (As of March 31,2016)
Address (Head Office) 35F Roppongi Hills Mori Tower,PO Box#62, 6-10-1, Roppongi, Minato-ku,Tokyo 1066135
Company Name HONMA GOLF CO.,LTD.
Address 6330 Gateway Dr. Suite A, Cypress, CA 90630
Tel 1-424-263-4821
Hours 09:00～18:00
Address (Head Office) 35F Roppongi Hills Mori Tower,PO Box#62, 6-10-1, Roppongi, Minato-ku,Tokyo 1066135

Business

  1. Manufacturing and sales of Golf clubs.
  2. Manufacturing and sales of Golf equipment.

International

SAKATA FACTORY

The Birth of "Made in Japan , SAKATA"

We perform our in-house manufacturing processes at our campus located on an approximately 163,000 square meter parcel of land in Sakata City, Yamagata prefecture of Japan, which is staffed by approximately 360 skilled craftsmen, with an average of 27 years of work experience, as well as other support employees.

In our in-house manufacturing processes, we rely heavily on our skilled craftsmen, whose dedication to product quality enables us to maintain our status as one of the most prestigious and iconic brands in the golf industry.

1958 Homma brothers opened a driving range in Tsurumi Yokohama.
1959 Tsurumi Golf Center Co. (fore-runner of company) established.
1963 Honma Golf Club Manufacturing Co. established in Tsurumi.
1971 Osaka office opened.
1972 Tsurumi Golf Center Co. registered as Honma Co. (Jan)Nagoya office opened. (Nov)
1973 First carbon graphite "Black" shaft-installed woods marketed.
1978 "Honma" brand apparel and golf gear introduced. (Apr)Kyushu office opened.(Jul)
1981

Honma Co. incorporated to Honma Co., Ltd. (Oct)

Honma Golf Club Manufacturing Co. incorporated to Honma Golf Club Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (Dec)

Manufacture of carbon graphite shafts started at Honma Golf Club Manufacturing Co. (May)
1989 Work started on 5th stage of Sakata factory. 5th and 6th stages to be started before September 1990.
1990 Honma Co., Ltd. re-registered as present Honma Golf Co., Ltd.
1991 Granted U.S. patent for titanium reinforced carbon shafts.
1992 Merged Honma Golf Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (manufacture of golf clubs and gear etc.) and Honma Golf Real Estate Co., Ltd.(the development and management of shops and golf courses) (Oct)
1993 Honma Golf West Japan Sales Co., Ltd. (agent in charge of whole Kyushu district) incorporated to Honma Golf Co.,Ltd.
1995

Expansion of shaft manufacturing section at Sakata Factory completed. (May)

Shares registered with Japan Securities Dealers Association. (Aug)
1996

Expansion of Distribution Center at Sakata Factory started. (Jul)

HONMA GOLF SINGAPORE PTE LTD opened.

HONG KONG HONMA GOLF CO.,LIMITED opened. (Aug)

TAIWAN HONMA GOLF CO.,LTD. opened. (Sep)
1997

HONMA GOLF SDN.BHD. [Malaysia] opened. (Jun)

Expansion of Distribution Center at Sakata Factory completed. (Sep)

HONMA GOLF (THAILAND) CO.,LTD. opened. (Oct)
1998

Assets and business of H.G.C.CO.,Ltd.(Aso Takamori Golf Club) purchased.

Aso Takamori Golf Club opened. (Feb)

Honma Public Wakayama Course opened. (Sep)
1999 The shares of HONG KONG HONMA GOLF CO.,LIMITED , HONMA GOLF SDN.BHD. and HONMA GOLF (THAILAND) CO., LTD. were transferred to HONMA GOLF SINGAPORE PTE LTD.
2000 The shares of TAIWAN HONMA GOLF CO., LTD. were transferred to HONMA GOLF SINGAPORE PTE LTD.
2004

Business of Aso Takamori Golf Club transferred to HONMA Woosung Co. (Apr)

The shares were listed on the JASDAQ Securities Exchange. (Dec)
2005

Applied for Civil Rehabilitation Law (Court Protection of Assets for Restructuring) at the Tokyo District Court. (Jun 20th)

Application accepted. (Jun 27th)

Company shares delisted from the JASDAQ Securities Exchange. (Jul 21st)
2006

Restructuring plan approved by the Tokyo District Court . (Feb)

Nikko antfactory K.K. and Milestone turnaround Management Co.,Ltd became new shareholders. (Mar)

The Tokyo District Court approved the completion of our restructuring. (Jul)
2007 Takeover of Honma Golf Construction Co., Ltd. (Construction work, design, and maintanenace) (Nov)