Akai:s a consumer electronics brand, founded as Akai Electric Company Ltd. Akai Denki Kabushiki, a Japanese manufacturer in 1929. It is now headquartered in Singapore as a subsidiary of Grande Holdings, a Chinese Hong Kong-based conglomerate, which also owns the formerly Japanese brands Nakamichi and Sansui. The Akai brand is now used to rebadge electronics manufactured by other companies. In 1984, a new division of the company was formed to focus on the manufacture and sale of
electronic instruments, and was called Akai Electronic Musical Instruments Corporation, or Akai Professional.
