With the founding of his original company called San-S Shokai in downtown Tokyo in 1934, Tadao Yoshida determined the most beneficial way to prosper would be to manufacture items of value to which he could add worth. He choose to produce a simple, yet high potential item that had fascinated him for years: the zipper.
Today, Tadahiro Yoshida, YKK president and son of the founder, guides an organization that operates more than 118 affiliated companies in more than 70 countries representing some 580 plants and offices with some 40,000+ employees.
Since entering the U.S. market in 1960, YKK's American business has grown and diversified far beyond zippers. Today we are the parent company, YKK Corporation of America, plus 14 operating companies located across five time zones from Canada to South America.