YKK
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Native name
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吉田工業株式会社 |
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Formerly called
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San-es Shokai |
| Private KK | |
| Industry | Manufacturing |
| Founded |
Nihonbashi, Tokyo (January 1, 1934) |
| Founder | Tadao Yoshida |
| Headquarters | Kanda Izumi-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8642, Japan |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Tadahiro Yoshida (Chairman and CEO) Masayuki Sarumaru (President) |
| Products | |
| Revenue | (US$ 6.1 billion) (FY 2014) |
| Profit |
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Number of employees
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42,154 (consolidated as of March 31, 2015) |
| Website | Official website |
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Footnotes / references |
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JPY 46.9 billion (FY 2014)
The YKK Group (YKK Waikeikei Gurūpu?) is a Japanese group of manufacturing companies. As the world's largest zipper manufacturer, YKK Group is most famous for making zippers; however, it also manufactures other fastening products, architectural products, plastic hardware and industrial machinery.
The initials YKK stand for Yoshida Kōgyō Kabushiki gaisha (吉田工業株式会社?, lit. "Yoshida Manufacturing Corporation"), which was the name of the company from 1945 until 1994. YKK produces fasteners and architectural products at 109 YKK companies in 71 countries around the world.
What would later become YKK operated initially as San-es Shokai and was founded by Tadao Yoshida in Higashi Nihonbashi, Tokyo in January 1934. The company specialized in marketing of fastening products. In February 1938 San-es Shokai was renamed to Yoshida Kogyosho. WWII was under way by 1939 and the next major corporate event would not take place until February 1942.
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