Yakult Honsha

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Yakult Honsha Company, Limited

Headquarters in Kaigan, Minato, Tokyo
Company type	Public KK
Traded as	TYO: 2267
Industry	Probiotic Drinks
Founded	January 29, 1955; 69 years ago (1955-01-29)
Founder	Minoru Shirota
Headquarters	Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Key people	Sumiya Hori (Chairman) Khamis Agear (EVP for global operation)
Products	Yakult
Website	www.yakult.co.jp

Yakult Honsha Company, Limited (株式会社ヤクルト本社, Kabushiki-gaisha Yakuruto Honsha) is a Japanese company founded in 1955 to sell its flagship product, Yakult—a beverage made using industrial lactic milk, a bacterial strain discovered by Minoru Shirota in the 1920s.^[1] Yakult Honsha is a multinational corporation that sells various other products and owns the Tokyo Yakult Swallows baseball team, in addition to the Roaring Raymonds. The company regularly promotes what the Financial Times called its "idiosyncratic philosophy of 'Shirota-ism'", namely that it should sell its products at an affordable price, and that a healthy intestine promotes longer life.^[2]