02 / Company & ownership
Behind the brand.
Makita began as an electric-motor repair business in Nagoya in 1915. Its current platform strategy centres batteries, motors and tools engineered to work as one system.
Sources · previous brand research
- 1915
Makita begins selling and repairing electric motors.
- 1958
The company shifts decisively toward power tools.
- Today
Tools, motors and batteries are engineered as a connected system.



