Yamazaki Baking

Yamazaki Baking Co., Ltd.
Native name
山崎製パン株式会社
Yamazaki Seipan kabushiki gaisha
Company typePublic (Kabushiki gaisha)
TYO: 2212
OSE: 2212
IndustryFood
Founded21 June 1948 (1948-06-21)
Ichikawa, Chiba
FounderTojuro Iijima
HeadquartersIwamotochō, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8585, Japan
Number of locations
107,950 stores
Area served
Asia, Europe, North America
Key people
Nobuhiro Iijima
(President)
Products
ServicesConvenience stores
RevenueIncrease JPY 995.01 billion (FY 2013)
(US$ 9.66 billion) (FY 2013)
Increase JPY 12.04 billion (FY 2013)
US$116.8 million million) (FY 2013)
OwnerIijima 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)
WebsiteOfficial 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.

  1. ^ "Company Profile". Yamazaki Baking. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Stuart D. B. Picken (2009). The A to Z of Japanese Business. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 316. ISBN 978-08108-6872-4.
  4. ^ Kazuo Usui (2014). Marketing and Consumption in Modern Japan. Routledge. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-415-32313-0.

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