Not to be confused with Mitsubishi Electric, which sometimes refers to itself as MELCO (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)

Melco Holdings Inc.
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.

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	Terastation
Drivestation external hard drive	Nintendo Wi-Fi USB Connector	A Buffalo AirStation	LinkStation Pro and KuroBox Pro

Corporate Structure

See also

• AirStation

References

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