Leyton House

Leyton House was a real estate, properties, clothing shops, restaurants and travel, hotels and music publishing brand of Japanese real-estate company Marusho Kosan.
==1985-1987==
Although Marusho Kosan was founded in 1981 by the late businessman Akira Akagi, Leyton House was created as a separate brand in 1985 due to an advice of his employee, which told that "Kanji and European text don't look good on a racing car", while his company was sponsoring the late racing driver Akira Hagiwara. The company adopted its trademark "Leyton blue", a pastel turquoise-like shade of blue near to emerald green, said to have been adopted by Akagi as its corporate color from ``Miami Blue,'' which was the body color of the Honda City Cabriolet.
Although this logo became obsolete, it still registered in the trademark database of the Japanese Patent Office Digital Library and it can still be seen on reissued apparel. 
==1987-1998, 2016-present==
In 1987, during a race in Europe, the logo had to be modified to remove the stylised black man carrying luggage on his head as people criticised it as "racist" and because it reminded of the enslavement of black people. 
Leyton House was defunct in June 1998 as Marusho Kosan declaring bankrupt due to a complaint from its creditors because of its total debt of approximately 167 billion yen, worsened since Akagi's arrest in September 1991 for his involvement in a fraudulent loan incident at the Fuji Bank's Akasaka branch as well as the bursting of the asset price bubble in Japan in that same year. However, the Leyton House trademark was transfered to Sansei Shoji Co. Ltd. in October 1998, and as of 2016, Sansei Shoji continued to produce and sell various merchandise under the revived Leyton House brand, mainly sportswear and shoes.
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Category:Japan
Category:Real estate
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