Makita Corporation · Fiscal year ended March 2026
83% of sales come from overseas: the tools and service network behind Makita’s ¥777.6 billion.
Makita is easy to picture as a power-tool company, and that image is still accurate. But FY2025 numbers show that the company cannot be understood through the tools alone. Of ¥777.6 billion in revenue, ¥645.5 billion came from outside Japan—about 83.0% by site calculation. Overseas factories produced 92.5% of units. Makita also operates directly managed sales bases in around 50 countries and sells products in around 180. The company began in 1915 by selling and repairing motors and other electrical equipment. Its present form combines making, selling, repairing and distributing tools across a global network.
This is not investment advice or a stock recommendation. We reorder company-published primary-source facts to make the shape of the business easier to see.
Makita is easy to recognize as a power-tool company.
That picture is still broadly right.
But splitting the numbers by where products are sold and made reveals a different scale.
An editorial repair-bench scene places a power tool beside a motor and spare parts. It interprets the roles of sales, repair and parts supply, not an actual network layout or the achievement of future strategy.
Revenue is ¥777.6 billion
Most of that revenue came from outside Japan.
Overseas revenue is ¥645.5 billion
About 83% of revenue comes from overseas
FY2025. Overseas share is a site calculation.
Europe is especially large.
Europe alone generates ¥390.1 billion
Production is even more international than sales.
92.5% of production units come from overseas factories
Makita is international in both sales and production
FY2025. The 83.0% and 50.2% revenue shares are site calculations.
How did the company become this international?
It did not begin as a finished-product manufacturer.
It started with motor sales and repair in 1915
The decisive move into proprietary products came in 1958.
Japan’s first portable electric planer
Its cordless history also goes back much further than the current battery boom.
Cordless tools date back to 1969
The current strategy extends those battery and motor technologies beyond power tools.
From tools into OPE, cleaning and outdoor products
Makita also identifies something other than product technology as a competitive strength.
Direct bases in around 50 countries, sales in around 180
For professional tools, a breakdown can stop work at a jobsite.
That makes the service network more than a distribution channel.
The network is built to keep jobsites running
A tool has not finished its job when it leaves a factory.
Its value continues only if it reaches the jobsite, works, can be repaired and returns to service.
THE VIEW AFTER THE NUMBERS
What the numbers suggest
Makita generated ¥777.6 billion in revenue and ¥104.7 billion in operating profit in FY2025.
Overseas revenue was ¥645.5 billion, about 83.0% of the group by site calculation. Europe alone represented about 50.2%. Overseas factories produced 92.5% of all units.
The company began in 1915 by selling and repairing motors, transformers and lighting equipment. It launched Japan’s first portable electric planer in 1958, shifted into power tools in 1959, released its first cordless tool in 1969 and introduced lithium-ion professional cordless tools in 2005. Today it is extending those battery and motor technologies into OPE, cleaning and outdoor products.
But products are only half the picture.
Makita operates direct bases in around 50 countries, sells in around 180, and uses that network not only to sell products but also to repair them and supply parts.
Makita is therefore less a company that simply exports tools than a company that has built a global system to make, sell and repair them without letting the jobsite stop.
Primary sources used
MAR 2026 Results
Makita Corporation · 2026-04-28
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