Yamada Denki
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Native name
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株式会社ヤマダ電機 |
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Romanized name
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Kabushiki-gaisha Yamada Denki |
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| Traded as | : |
| Industry | Retail |
| Founded | June 1, 1978 (Nihon Densen Kōgyō) Former Yamada Denki founded on September 1, 1983 (established in April 1973) |
| Headquarters | Takasaki, Gunma, Japan |
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Key people
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Noboru Yamada, Representative Director and CEO |
| Products | Discount department store, electronics specialty |
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Number of employees
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21,261 (2013) |
| Subsidiaries | Daikuma, Kansai Yamada Denki |
| Website | yamada-denki.jp |
Yamada-Denki Co., Ltd. (株式会社ヤマダ電機 Kabushiki-gaisha Yamada Denki?) is one of the largest consumer electronics retailer chains in Japan. Some of its stores also sell other products, such as books.
The company was founded in 1973 as a privately owned store. Yamada Denki Co., Ltd. was established in 1983. The current corporation was created on May 21, 1987, by a merger with the dormant company Nihon Densen Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha (日本電線工業株式会社?) "Japan Electrical Wiring Industries", founded in 1978, via a change in the face value of the stock, and a change in the company name (to Kabushiki-gaisha Yamada Denki). Yamada Denki is listed in the first division of the , and the location of its head office is 4-40-11, Hiyoshi-chō, Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. The head office is scheduled to move to Takasaki, Gunma in 2007. In February 2005, the company achieved sales figures of 1 trillion yen, making it the first specialist retailer in Japan to do so.
At the end of 2004, the company had 223 directly run stores across Japan, and 33 stores owned by subsidiaries, a total of 256 stores. It aims to expand further by branching out into small-scale retail and retail in the areas close to train stations. With the opening of the Tecc Land Tokushima Aizumi store in Aizumi, Tokushima Prefecture, on July 29, 2005, it became the first consumer electronics retailer to have stores in every prefecture in Japan.
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