Corporate History GS Yuasa’s Predecessors and Their History GS (Japan Storage Battery) founded in 1895 YUASA founded in 1913 1895 Genzo Shimadzu manufactures Japan’s first 1913 Shichizaemon Yuasa begins research into metal electrolysis lead-acid storage battery 1915 Yuasa Battery Manufacturing established within the Yuasa 1908 First use of the GS trademark Iron Works in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture; production starts on storage batteries 1912 Storage battery plant built (Shin-machi, Imadegawa) 1918 Yuasa Storage Battery Co., Ltd. established 1917 Japan Storage Battery Co., Ltd. established 1920 Production starts on automotive lead-acid batteries; Tudor plating for stationary 1919 Production of automotive lead-acid batteries batteries completed begins 1935 Production of glass mercury rectifiers begins 1933 Production of glass mercury rectifiers begins 1938 Production of alkaline batteries begins 1941 New storage battery plant in Odawara City 1940 Ultra-high-pressure mercury lamps developed completed; production of alkaline batteries begins 1966 Siam GS Battery Co., Ltd. established in Thailand 1963 Yuasa Battery (Thailand) Pub. Co., Ltd. established 1991 Tianjin Tong Yee Industrial Co., Ltd. (currently 1966 Dry and charged batteries go on sale in Japan Tianjin GS Battery Co., Ltd.) established for the first time 1993 Prismatic lithium-ion batteries developed 1993 Tianjin Yuasa Batteries Co., Ltd. established 2004 GS Yuasa Corporation established 2004 GS Yuasa Corporation established 2005 Tata AutoComp GY Batteries Ltd. established as the first overseas site of GS Yuasa in India (currently Tata AutoComp GY Batteries Pvt. Ltd.) 2006 GS Yuasa Lithium Power Inc. established as GS Yuasa’s first overseas site for the manufacture of lithium-ion batteries 2007 Lithium Energy Japan established jointly with Mitsubishi Corporation and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation 2009 Blue Energy Co., Ltd. established jointly with Honda Motor Co., Ltd. 2013 Lithium Energy and Power GmbH & Co. KG (Germany) established jointly with Robert Bosch GmbH and Mitsubishi Corporation 2014 GS Yuasa Asia Technical Center Ltd. (Thailand) established 2015 Inci Holding A.S. and Inci GS Yuasa Aku Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Sirketi established in Turkey 2016 Completed the transfer of Panasonic Corporation’s lead-acid battery business, which is renamed GS Yuasa Energy Co., Ltd. 15 GS YUASA Report 2018.