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Yamaha Motor brands

Japanese maker of motorcycles, scooters, boats and engines, split from the musical-instrument maker Nippon Gakki in 1955.

Yamaha Motor owns 2 brands today: Yamaha and MBK.

Founded
1955
Country
Japan
Headquarters
Iwata, Shizuoka
Yamaha MT-07 in grey
Its most registered: Yamaha MT-07
  1. Yamaha logo Yamaha
  2. MBK

Brands Yamaha Motor owns today

Most registered first, each with its most registered models.

Yamaha Motor timeline

  1. Motorcycle department spun off from Nippon Gakki as Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd., with Genichi Kawakami as first president.

  2. Listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

  3. Motorcycle production and marketing tie-up with Motobecane of France.

  4. MBK Industrie, in partnership with Yamaha, buys out Motobecane.

  5. France's MBK becomes part of the Yamaha Motor group.

  6. Yamaha renames its wholly-owned Saint-Quentin plant, formerly MBK Industrie, as Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Europe.

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