InBody Co., Ltd.
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| KOSDAQ listed corporation | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Healthcare |
| Founded 📆 | 1996 |
| Founder 👔 | Kichul Cha |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , , South Korea |
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| 🌐 Website | inbody |
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InBody Co., Ltd (Hangul: 인바디) is a manufacturer of a range of healthcare equipment and devices, including body composition analyzers, and body water analyzers from South Korea.[1]
It produces the world’s first body composition analysis device that uses an eight-point tactile electrode method by bioelectrical impedance analysis. In Korea and Japan, the name InBody serves as a proper noun for measuring body composition.[2] It is listed on KOSDAQ and its headquarters are located in Gangnam, the center of Seoul. It has manufacturing factories in Cheonan, South Korea.
It provides products and services to 109 countries around the world and continues to grow with an average annual growth rate of over 20%. InBody products account for 80% of the US body composition analyzer market, and sports industries such as baseball and basketball teams also occupy about two-thirds. InBody was published as a body composition analysis method in an American university textbook[3]
Corporate structure[edit]
It has 65 fixed business locations, including 9 local subsidiaries and 56 agencies worldwide. Its nine overseas subsidiaries are located in the United States, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Germany, China, India, Malaysia and Mexico.InBody Co., Ltd has the following subsidiaries and agencies.
- InBody USA, Cerritos California, United States
- InBody China, Shanghai, China
- InBody Europe, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- InBody Japan, Tokyo, Japan
- InBody India, Mumbai, India
- InBody Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- InBody UK, Coalville, United Kingdom
- InBody Germany, Eschborn, Germany
- InBody Mexico, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
Products[edit]
InBody Co., Ltd produces :
- Body composition analyzer[4]
- Body water analyzer
- Blood pressure monitor
Partnership[edit]
US marine Corps
The US Marine Corps has partnered with health technology company InBody to supply body composition analyzer devices for its personnel. The partnership will provide more than 250 InBody 770 analyzers.[5][6]
Orangetheory Fitness
Orangetheory Fitness which is an American premium fitness studio franchise went into partnership with InBody.[7]
History[edit]
Dr. Cha established the company in 1996 under the name Biospace. In 1998, the first machine that provides information on body composition called InBody was born. After the InBody machine got famed, the company changed its name to InBody from Biospace in 2014.[8][9] In 2000, InBody established its first overseas subsidiary in the United States.[10]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ Ogawa, H; Fujitani, K; Tsujinaka, T; Imanishi, K; Shirakata, H; Kantani, A; Hirao, M; Kurokawa, Y; Utsumi, S (January 2011). "InBody 720 as a new method of evaluating visceral obesity". Hepato-gastroenterology. 58 (105): 42–4. PMID 21510284.
- ↑ "'인바디가 상표명이었어?' 고유명사 인바디, 보통명사가 되다…". www.medipharmhealth.co.kr (in 한국어).
- ↑ "美 체성분 분석기 시장 80% 점유한 인바디 차기철 대표". 주간동아 (in 한국어). 30 December 2022.
- ↑ Finn, Kevin J. (2015). "Agreement Between Omron 306 and Biospace InBody 720 Bioelectrical Impedance Analyzers (BIA) in Children and Adolescents".
- ↑ Manuel, Rojoef (27 January 2023). "US Marine Corps to Receive Body Analysis Technology". The Defense Post.
- ↑ "InBody wins order to supply its health analyzers to U.S. Marine Corps - Pulse by Maeil Business News Korea". pulsenews.co.kr (in 한국어).
- ↑ "InBody Partners with Orangetheory® Fitness to Advance Technology Offerings with Body Composition Analysis". www.prnewswire.com (Press release).
- ↑ "체성분 분석기 '인바디'인기 덕에 회사명도 바꿨다". 조선비즈 (in 한국어). 22 March 2021.
- ↑ Finn, Kevin J.; Saint-Maurice, Pedro F.; Karsai, István; Ihász, Ferenc; Csányi, Tamás (26 June 2015). "Agreement Between Omron 306 and Biospace InBody 720 Bioelectrical Impedance Analyzers (BIA) in Children and Adolescents". Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport. 86: S58–S65. doi:10.1080/02701367.2015.1042998. PMID 26054957. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ "Company introduction_InBody". tradeKorea.
External links[edit]
- Official website "InBody USA"
- Official website "InBody HQ, South Korea"
- Official website "InBody Europe"
- Official website "InBody Germany"
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