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Joyson Safety Systems company history timeline

1987

Key Safety Systems, Inc. was founded in 1987 as a spinoff of Breed Corp.

1989

Sales were $27 million in 1989, noted a retrospective in Florida Trend.

1991

1991: Company name is changed to Breed Technologies, Inc.

1993

Breed accounted for 59 percent of the airbag sensor market for United States-built vehicles in the 1993 model year.

1995

Inc. magazine named Allen Breed its Entrepreneur of the Year in 1995.

1997

The firm had about 11,000 employees in 1997, when sales were $795 million.

Johnnie Cordell Breed, wife of company founder Allen Breed and a successful entrepreneur in her own right, had become Breed's CEO in 1997 when Allen Breed retired from the position.

1998

BSRS Restraint Systems International, a 50-50 joint venture with the Automotive Systems Group of German electronics firm Siemens AG, was created in 1998.

2000

Takata has admitted that company employees knew about the potential problems with its airbag inflators as early as 2000.

2003

In May 2003, a restructuring was announced that aimed to cut costs by $200 million a year.

2008

Problems began to emerge in 2008 when Honda recalled 4,000 Accords and Civics.

2011

Ningbo Joyson has become a rising force in China, courtsey of an acquisition binge that began in 2011.

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