1910's
07/09/2004
Following the death of Kibataro Oki, Oki continued to grow and following the outbreak of the First World War overseas orders increased substantially.
1910
Oki and Co Ltd increased in capital
to 700,000 yen.
1912
Oki and Co continued to grow and
recapitalise, this time to 1 million yen. As the company's
operations expanded, its workforce also did: it grew from 381
employees in 1907 to 772 in 1912.
1916
Oki Electric, the manufacturing and
sales of electric equipment arm of Oki, merged with Oki and Co.
with Oki Electric taking over the employees of Oki and Co. in their
current positions.
Oki produced 9,250 portable telephones for Russia.
1917
Having decided to pursue a policy of
business expansion Oki focused on five product areas:
* Production of ordinary telephone and telegraph instruments,
radiotelegraphs, and wireless telephony instruments.
* Processing and production of military related goods.
* Production of signal instruments for railroads, and emergency
alarms.
* Production of covered wire.
* Manufacture of batteries.
1919
Oki Electric purchased a plant in the Osaki section of Tokyo,
refurbished it and named it the Osaki Plant. It then transferred
the wire manufacturing operations of the factory in the Kyobashi
and the R & D, capacitor, and battery operations of the Tamachi
Plant to Osaki.
