After overcoming the Lehman shock, in the 2010s, Brother has been strengthening its business portfolio. In the printing business, Brother is striving to further enhance profitability to win a place in a changing business environment, and in the machinery business, it is developing new customers to establish a firm business base. In 2015, Brother acquired Domino as a subsidiary of the Brother Group. In this way, Brother has been expanding its B to B business.
Chronology
| 2010 | XING INC. acquired all issued shares of BMB Corporation and made it into a consolidated subsidiary. Online karaoke business reinforced. |
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| 2010 | BROTHER MACHINERY SHANGHAI LTD. established in China as an industrial sewing machine and machine tool sales company. |
| 2010 | BROTHER SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT (HANGZHOU) LTD. established (company name changed to BROTHER SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT (HANGZHOU) LTD. in September 2011 due to business expansion). Software development in China reinforced. |
| 2010 | BROTHER SEWING MACHINE XIAN CO., LTD. merged with XIAN BROTHER INDUSTRIES, CO., LTD. (made into a wholly-owned subsidiary and company name changed in October 2009) and changed its name to BROTHER MACHINERY XIAN CO., LTD. |
| 2010 | XING INC. merged BMB Corporation, a subsidiary of USEN CORPORATION operating karaoke business. |
| 2011 | BROTHER INDUSTRIES SAIGON, LTD. established in Vietnam as a home sewing machine manufacturing company. |
| 2011 | Compact, lightweight mobile scanners launched. |
| 2011 | BROTHER INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION (U.S.A.) acquired NEFSIS CORPORATION operating web conference business. |
| 2012 | Brother Group Principles of Social Responsibility established. |
| 2012 | BROTHER INDUSTRIES (PHILIPPINES), INC. established in the Philippines as an inkjet product manufacturing company. |
| 2012 |
BROTHER INDUSTRIES SAIGON, LTD. started production of home sewing machines.
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| 2013 |
NISSEI CORPORATION made into a consolidated subsidiary as a result of a tender offer for shares. Industrial parts business reinforced.
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| 2013 | BROTHER MACHINERY VIETNAM CO., LTD. established in Vietnam as an industrial sewing machine manufacturing company. |
| 2013 | Multiple manufacturing facilities of industrial sewing machines and machine tools in Xian, China consolidated to BROTHER MACHINERY XIAN CO., LTD. |
| 2013 |
BROTHER INDUSTRIES (PHILIPPINES), INC. started production of information and communications equipment.
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| 2014 | BROTHER MACHINERY VIETNAM CO., LTD. started production of industrial sewing machines. |
| 2015 | XING INC. acquired TEICHIKU ENTERTAINMENT, INC., a subsidiary of JVCKENWOOD Corporation operating planning, production, and sales of music and video software. |
| 2015 |
BROTHER INDUSTRIES, LTD. made DOMINO PRINTING SCIENCES PLC, an industrial printing company in the U.K., into a subsidiary.
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| 2015 | Corporate Governance Basic Policy established. |
| 2016 | DOMINO PRINTING TECHNOLOGY (CHANGSHU) CO., LTD. established in China as a manufacturing company. |
| 2016 | BROTHER INDUSTRIES (SHENZHEN) LTD., a manufacturing company in China, merged with BROTHER TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) LTD. |
| 2019 | Domino business in Japan acquired from Cornes Technologies Limited and business started as BROTHER INDUSTRIAL PRINTING (JAPAN), LTD. Sales of Domino products in Japan reinforced. |
