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Company Background
Brother UK markets a diverse range of products comprising printers, fax machines, all-in-ones, laminators, electronic labelling machines, typewriters and both domestic and industrial sewing machines.
Founded in Nagoya, Japan in 1934, the company has been a force in technology manufacturing for more than 75 years.
Brother currently employs around 240 people at Brother UK and 115 people at Brother International Europe, both based in Manchester, plus a further 250 at its production plant in Ruabon.
Electronic Labelling Machines and Laminators
Since its introduction in 1988, the Brother range of electronic labelling machines has grown to offer a wide range of options - everything from a handheld, battery operated model, to a PC connectable unit with a full size QWERTY keyboard - producing waterproof, scratchproof and heat resistant labels or even barcodes. Logos, images and text can all be positioned onto one label.
The flexibility of P-touch systems enable hardwearing labels to be used for a wide variety of applications ranging from warehousing, distribution, engineering and manufacturing to gardening, schools and libraries.
Brother's cool laminators can handle documents from A3 down to business card size items.
Fast Facts
- At Your Side, Worldwide: The Brother group has operations in 28 countries and sells to over 100 countries.
Big Brother: Brother manufacturing plants are situated in 24 countries including Japan, Taiwan, Korea, America, Malaysia, Brazil, China, Ireland and the UK.
- Bigger than you think: At 1m square feet, Brother's Jupiter distribution centre in Memphis, Tennessee, USA is as big as 12 football pitches.
- Karaoke Kings: In Japan, Brother is the leading supplier of cutting edge ISDN multi-media karaoke technology and of polyphonic ringtones for mobile phones.
- Fascinating Fax: Brother is the world's largest manufacturer of fax machines and sold over 10 million machines.
Small but perfectly formed: Brother pioneered the world's smallest self-contained mobile printer, the MPrint is so small if will fit into a jacket pocket!
- Ethical Outlook: Brother was the first printer manufacturer to achieve the coveted TCO standard in 2003, a globally recognised benchmark for excellence in ecology, energy, emissions and ergonomics.
- Zero to hero: Brother's P-touch labels can be frozen to temperatures as low as 50°C and can withstand temperatures as high as 300°C.
- Power to the People: A super sophisticated Super Galaxie 3100D computerised embroidery machine has about the same processing power as a laptop PC!
- Designed for Life: Some of the world's major fashion brands, including DKNY, Levi's and Zandra Rhodes, have been made on a Brother industrial sewing machine.
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