| Sep. 1967 |
- Established Endo Lighting Manufacturing in Joto-ku, Osaka City, and started manufacturing lighting fixture.
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| Jan. 1969 |
- Started manufacturing marine lighting fixture.
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| Aug. 1972 |
- Reorganized as a legal entity, and established ENDO Lighting Corporation in Higashiosaka.
- Addressed manufacturing/sales for shop buildings.
- Opened the first factory in Higashi Osaka City.
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| Sep. |
- Opened a sales office in Osaka City.
- Started selling incandescent lighting fixture under own brand, including downlight, ceiling light, spot light, pendant, chandelier, and bracket.
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| Jan. 1974 |
- Opened Tokyo sales office.
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| Jun. |
- Opened HQ distribution center.
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| Jan. 1976 |
- Opened a distribution center in Adachi-ku, Tokyo.
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| Jun. 1984 |
- Opened Kanto distribution center (moved from Tokyo distribution center) and Kita-Kanto sales office (moved from Osaka sales office) at the industrial complex in Sano City, Tochigi Prefecture.
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| Aug. 1986 |
- Established the original brand “ABiTA” to increase the sales of imported goods.
- Opened Sano factory in Kanto distribution center.
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| Jan. 1987 |
- Absorbed Endo Lighting Tokyo Sales, Endo Lighting Sales Kyoto office, Endo Lighting Osaka Sales, and Erukon Osaka to consolidate sales divisions. Also absorbed Endo Manufacturing to improve the production capability.
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| Aug. 1988 |
- Opened Central distribution center (moved from HQ distribution center) in Minakuchi-cho in Koga-gun (current Minakuchi-cho, Koga-shi), Shiga Prefecture.
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| May. 1989 |
- Opened Minakuchi factory in Central distribution center.
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| Jun. |
- Opened Endo Lighting Research Laboratory in Higashi Osaka City.
- Opened Thai local company Lighting ENDO (THAILAND) CO., LTD.
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| Feb. 1990 |
- Became listed on Specially Designated stocks in Second Section (New Second Section) of the Osaka Securities Exchange.
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| Jul. 1992 |
- Opened Production Technology Research Laboratory in Higashi Osaka City.
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| Jan. 1993 |
- Started living business and system storage furniture sales/installation. (Business ended in March, 2011.)
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| Dec. |
- Merged Osaka factory into Minakuchi factory.
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| Jan. 1996 |
- Designated as Part Two stocks of the Osaka Securities Exchange.
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| Jul. 1997 |
- Started interior furniture business and system storage furniture (assembly furniture) sales.
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| Dec. 1999 |
- Acquired ISO9001 Certificate for lighting apparatus in all offices.
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| Mar. 2001 |
- Abita salone started furniture sales in Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo.
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| Jan. 2002 |
- Acquired ISO9001 2000 version.
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| 2003 |
- Changed the name from Lighting ENDO（THAILAND）Co., Ltd to ENDO Lighting（THAILAND）Public Co. Ltd.
- Established Kunshan Endo Lighting Co., Ltd. (consolidated subsidiary), a Chinese manufacturing subsidiary.
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| Feb. 2004 |
- Acquired ISO9001 Certificate for interior furniture business and interior furniture supplies sales.
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| Feb. 2005 |
- Established the factory of Kunshan Endo Lighting Co., Ltd.
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| Jul. |
- Opened Aoyama showroom in Minato-ku, Tokyo.
- Established E-SEMS Corporation, a subsidiary of environmental business.
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| Jun. 2006 |
- Moved HQ and E-SEMS Corporation (consolidated subsidiary) to Chuo-ku, Osaka, and opened HQ showroom.
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| Jun. 2007 |
- Acquired ISO14001 Certificate for lighting apparatus in Lighting Technology Research Laboratory.
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| Oct. 2008 |
- Opened a distribution center (Okawa Center) for interior furniture and supplies in Okawa City, Fukuoka Prefecture.
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| 2009 |
- Developed LED module, and succeeded in productizing the LED lighting apparatus “LEDZ”.
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| May. 2010 |
- Kunshan Endo Lighting Co., Ltd. acquired ISO9001 Certificate for lighting apparatus.
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| Oct. |
- Started manufacturing LED lights in Sano factory.
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| Sep. 2011 |
- Acquired Icon International, Inc. (consolidated subsidiary) to enhance sales of lighting apparatus in North America.
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| Feb. 2012 |
- Moved Aoyama showroom to Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, and opened as Tokyo showroom.
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| Apr. |
- Opened Shanghai sales office.
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| Jun. |
- Opened Singapore representative office.
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| Sep. |
- Opened London representative office in England.
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| Nov. |
- Opened “Technical Center” in Higashi Osaka, a new product development location for LED lighting apparatus.
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| Dec. |
- Designated as Part One stocks of the Osaka Securities Exchange.
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| Jan. 2013 |
- Completed China New Factory.
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| Jul. |
- Became listed on The First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, with the spot market integration of Tokyo Stock Exchange and Osaka Stock Exchange.
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| Dec. |
- Completed Thai Third Factory.
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| Apr. 2014 |
- Established ENDO Lighting SE Asia Pte. Ltd (subsidiary) in Singapore.
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| Nov. |
- Acquired Ansell Electrical Products Limited and Ansell (Sales & Distribution) Limited in England.
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| Mar. 2015 |
- Honmachi 1-6-19, Chuo-ku, Osaka now became Osaka office, and HQ functions moved to Bingomachi 1-7-3, Chuo-ku, Osaka.
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| Sep. 2017 |
- 50th anniversary of founding
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