| Company name |
TOA (Hong Kong) Limited |
| Established |
November 10, 1994 |
| Managing Director |
Masato Hotta |
| Office |
Room 710, 7/F., Fortress Tower, 250 King's Road, North Point, Hong Kong |
| Major Business |
• Sales of public address and broadcasting equipment,communications equipment and other information transmission equipment
• Sales of audio and visual equipment and other electrical and electronic devices |
| Major Activities |
| Sound Segment |
| Classification |
Major Products |
| Public Address Systems |
Microphones, amplifiers, speakers, megaphones, background music facilities, emergency PA and General-purpose PA systems, automatic announcement systems, conference systems |
| Professional Sound Systems |
Theater/hall sound systems, digital mixing systems, stage sound systems |
| Communications Systems |
Intercom systems, telephone application systems, wireless microphone systems |
| Security Segment |
| Visual Systems |
CCTV systems | |
| Major Markets |
Office buildings, Airports, Railway stations, Undergound railways, Halls,Schools, Department stores, Athletic stadiums and Gymnasiums, Hospitals, Guest houses and Hotels, Function rooms, Theaters and Cinemas, Convention centres, Amusement parks, Restaurants, Discotheques, etc... |
The Start of TOA History - 1934
The Story of the Company's First President, the Late Tsunetaro Nakatani
TOA's founder, Mr. Tsunetaro Nakatani, was born on August 10, 1890 in the city of Takasago, approximately 30km west of Kobe, and was raised as the only son of a family of one boy and 6 girls. Following conscription into the army, he joined the 39th Infantry Regiment in Himeji. Although he had planned to be a photographer or painter after completing his military service, the death of his brother-in-law, who had been operating a manufacturing business in Senba, Osaka, forced him to defer his dreams, and he worked with his elder sister in the place of his brother-in-law until she graduated from university and took over her late husband's business.
Tsunetaro often used to tell his son, Taro, "Man's happiness lies in the fact that he can do the job he loves with all his might." Perhaps Tsunetaro said this out of parental love in the hope his son would not experience the same disappointments in life that he had endured. Was it the environment of Senba, Osaka that so changed Tsunetaro, who had previously preferred the more solitary profession of a painter? Or perhaps Tsunetaro's very efforts were responsible for bringing about such a profound change.
Around the time that his sister took over her husband's business, Tsunetaro happened to meet a young engineer during his travels who sparked his interest in making microphones. Soon after, he determined that this would be type of work he would like to do next. After moving to Kobe, he founded the Toa Electric Manufacturing Co., Ltd., and immediately started making microphones. The seeds of today's TOA opened here, in September of 1934.
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