 The Headquarters in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan | |
Native name | 山崎製パン株式会社 |
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Romanized name | Yamazaki Seipan kabushiki gaisha |
| Company type | Public (Kabushiki gaisha) |
| TYO: 2212 OSE: 2212 | |
| Industry | Food |
| Founded | 21 June 1948 Ichikawa, Chiba |
| Founder | Tojuro Iijima |
| Headquarters | Iwamotochō, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8585, Japan |
Number of locations | 107,950 stores |
Area served | Asia, Europe, North America |
Key people | Nobuhiro Iijima (President) |
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| Services | Convenience stores |
| Revenue |  JPY 995.01 billion (FY 2013)(US$ 9.66 billion) (FY 2013) |
| JPY 12.04 billion (FY 2013) US$116.8 million million) (FY 2013) | |
| Owner | Iijima family (around 14.38%) Nisshin Seifun Group (5.08%) Oriental Land Company (0.19%) |
Number of employees | 17,654 (consolidated, as of 31 December 2014) |
| Website | Official website |
| Footnotes / references [1] | |
The Yamazaki Baking Company, Ltd. (山崎製パン株式会社, Yamazaki Seipan kabushiki gaisha) is a Japanese food company and the world's largest bread-baking corporation,[2] that makes bread, bakery products and confectionery.[3] It was established by Tojuro Iijima in Japan on 9 March 1948 and started mass production of bread in 1955,[4] and is still controlled by the Iijima family; Nobuhiro Iijima is the third generation of the family to lead the company.
- ^ "Company Profile". Yamazaki Baking. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
- ^ John Paul Rathbone (22 November 2010). "Latin America: no longer the man with a moustache and a guitar". Financial Times. Pearson PLC. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
- ^ Stuart D. B. Picken (2009). The A to Z of Japanese Business. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 316. ISBN 978-08108-6872-4.
- ^ Kazuo Usui (2014). Marketing and Consumption in Modern Japan. Routledge. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-415-32313-0.