Melco
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Not to be confused with Mitsubishi Electric, who sometimes refers to themselves as MELCO (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
| Melco Holdings Inc. | |
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| Type | Public (TYO: 6676) |
| Founded | 1975 (Japan) |
| Headquarters |  Nagoya, Aichi |
| Key people | Makoto Maki, CEO |
| Industry | Computer hardware companies |
| Products | Electronics |
| Revenue | ¥134.547 billion JPY |
| Employees | 50 MELCO group related: 824 |
| Website | http://www.melcoinc.com/ |
Melco is a family business founded by Makoto Maki in 1975 as the company that is now known as Buffalo Inc. The name stands for Maki Engineering Laboratory COmpany[1].
Buffalo Inc. is currently one of the 14 subsidiaries of Melco Holdings Inc., initially founded as a audio equipment manufacturer, the company entered the computer peripheral market in 1981 with an EEPROM writer. The name BUFFALO is derived from one of company's first products, a printer buffer and the name for the American Bison.
Melco Holdings Inc. was incorporated in 1986; currently its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacture of random access memory products, Flash memory products, USB products, CD-ROM/DVD-RW drives, hard disks, local area network products, printer buffers, Liquid crystal displays, Microsoft Windows accelerators, Personal computer components and CPU accelerators. A subsidiary of Melco provides corporate services in Japan like Internet set-up, Terminal installation/set-up, Computer education and Computer maintenance.
Buffalo Technology (USA) is the North American subsidiary of the group and is based in Austin, Texas.
[edit] Products Manufactured by Melco
- Nintendo Wi-Fi USB Connector
- Buffalo network-attached storage series
- External hard drive
- HD-DVD Computer Drive
- AirStation (Residential gateway)
- AOSS
- Memory - SO-DIMM and DIMM
- USB flash drive
- UPnP Media Rendering Hardware
 Kuro Box Pro |
 Kuro Box HG-WR |
 Linkstation HG |
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 Drivestation external hard drive |
 A Buffalo AirStation |
 LinkStation Pro and KuroBox Pro |
[edit] Corporate Structure
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As of June 28, 2007 |
[edit] Melco divisions
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