Also known as Yoshida Kōgyō Kabushiki
thumb|Closeup of a YKK zipper on blue jeans The is a Japanese group of manufacturing companies. It is the world's largest zipper manufacturer, also producing other fastening products, architectural products, plastic hardware and industrial machinery.
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YKK, also known as Yoshida Kōgyō Kabushiki Gaisha, is an active company and funder established in 1934. The organization is located in Tokyo, Japan.
The entity is identified by the Wikidata entry YKK and the ISNI 0000 0004 1760 9672. It is also associated with the Grid identifier grid.471339.b.
Synthesized by Vinony from 13 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, Firecrawl, ROR. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Company.name
- YKK Group
- Company.former_name
- San-es Shokai,
- Company.logo
- YKK Group Logo.svg
- Company.logo_size
- 250px
- Company.native_name
- YKKグループ
- Company.native_name_lang
- ja
- Company.type
- Private KK
- Company.industry
- Manufacturing
- Company.founded
- Nihonbashi, Tokyo()
- Company.founder
- Tadao Yoshida
- Company.hq_location_city
- Kanda Izumi-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8642
- Company.hq_location_country
- Japan
- Company.area_served
- Worldwide
- Company.key_people
- Tadahiro Yoshida(Chairman and CEO)Hiroaki Ōtani(President)
- Company.revenue
- JPY 920.2 billion (FY 2023) (US$ 6.1 billion) (FY 2023)
- Company.net_income
- JPY 42.4 billion (FY 2023) (US$ 279 million) (FY 2023)
- Company.num_employees
- 45,363 (consolidated as of March 31, 2024)
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company, Funder
- Founded
- 1934
- Location
- Tokyo, Japan
- Also known as
- Yoshida Kōgyō Kabushiki Gaisha
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.471339.b · ISNI 0000 0004 1760 9672
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- enterprise
- Country
- Japan
- Headquarters
- Kanda-Izumichō
- Industry
- industrial manufacturing
- Legal form
- kabushiki gaisha
- Official website
- www.ykk.co.jp
- Image
- YKK hq.jpg
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- Commons category
- YKK Group
- inception
- 1934-00-00
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- History
- Before World War II
- After World War II
- Diversification
- New millennium
- Price fixing
- Products
- Fastening products
- Architectural products
- Machinery and engineering
- Facilities
- References
- External links
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