Yamaha bikes price list
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History of Logo
Are there any differences between the Yamaha Logo and that of Yamaha Motor?
The biggest difference is that logo of Yamaha Corporation is colored in violet, its corporate color, while that Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd, its sister company, uses red.
Yamaha Corporation uses a Yamaha Logomark with the tips of the tuning forks contained within a circle, and features "YAMAHA" printed in an asymmetric font, with an "M" with a middle column shorter than the outer legs, while that of Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd has the tips of the tuning forks in Yamaha Logo extended outside a circle, and uses symmetrical font, with an "M" of all the legs same size.
Yamaha Corporation
Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.
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Yamaha Motor Company
Japanese motorcycle manufacturer
This article is about the mobility company. For the separate music equipment manufacturer, see Yamaha Corporation.
Native name | ヤマハ発動機株式会社 |
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Romanized name | Yamaha Hatsudōki Kabushiki-gaisha |
| Company type | Public |
Traded as | TYO: 7272 |
| Industry | Automotive |
| Founded | 1 May 1955; 69 years ago (1955-05-01) |
| Founder | Genichi Kawakami |
| Headquarters | Iwata, Shizuoka ,Japan |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Hiroyuki Yanagi (chairman & Representative Director) Yoshihiro Hidaka [jp] (president & Representative Director) |
| Products | Motorcycles, commuter vehicles & scooters, recreational vehicles, boats, marine engines, small tractors, personal watercraft, electrically power assisted bicycles, automobile engines, golf carts, cycling components |
| Revenue | 2,414,759,000,000 yen (2023) |
| Owners | |
Number of employees | 52,664 (as of December 31, 2014) |
| Subsidiaries | |
| Website | global.yamaha-motor.com |
Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (ヤマハ発動機株式会
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From pianos and reed organs to premium motorcycles – Part I
Every Yamaha product, whether it is a two-wheel, outboard, generator, wave runner, snowmobile, quad and side by side, has a logo that is actually stylized trio of interlocking tuning forks. The Yamaha Motor Co. logo that today it is one of the largest manufacturers of motorcycles, outboard motors and much more, reminds that it originated from the manufacturers of musical instruments, more precisely - pianos and reed organs. What's more, even today apart from motoring, Yamaha is globally a very important and influential manufacturer of musical instruments.
Let’s get to know the Yamaha brand from the start.
Yamaha was established in 1887 as a piano and reed organ manufacturer by Torakusu Yamaha as Nippon Gakki Company, Limited in Hamamatsu. The company's origins is still reflected today in the group's logo—a trio of interlocking tuning forks. Torakusu Yamaha died in 1916 at the age of 64, during WW I. This did not stop the brand from becoming a globally recognized benchma
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