Kiyohara, founder of For-A dies at 88 at 88

Keizo Kiyohara, who in 1971 founded the company For-A (which in Japanese means “a society that grows together), has died at 88 years of age.

Throughout his professional life, Kiyohara prioritized, above all, Listen to the needs of customers Global of the company. In response to this commitment, he opened the first R&D center of the company in Sakura City, Chiba (Japan), in 1985, to develop new products and expand the manufacturing facilities of FOR-A.

The company currently produces more than 400 professional audio and video solutions from this state -of -the -art installation and from two R&D centers in Sapporo and the city of Fukuoka, which opened in 1991 and 2020. It has more than two hundred employees distributed between the central and its fialials in America, Canada, Korea, Italy, United Kingdom, India, Hong Kong, Middle East and Africa.

Kiyohara was appointed president and representative director of FOR-A in 2011 and Founder and Representative Director in 2022. Keizo Kiyohara's son, Katsuaki Kiyohara, continues in his role as president and representative director of FOR-A.

Katsuaki Kiyohara stressed that “our founder promised to keep For-A as a company that puts the needs of its clients in the first place, and that does so with maximum integrity. All of us will miss him much. He has had a great impact on how we behave in the business environment. His legacy remains in the way we treat each other with respect and dignity. I am very grateful for the years. him".