Kabushiki gaisha refers to the kind of company the YKK group is. Under the Companies Act of Japan, KK are classic joint-stock companies, in which the shareholders are able to buy and sell their stock in a company. The entire group is actually an umbrella corporation for several other companies — YKK Fastening is just the most famous one. YKK group also manufactures architectural products, plastic hardware, other fastening products, and even industrial machinery. But our focus in this guide will remain on their zippers!
In fact, they continued operating under their initial name until , when the company was renamed to YKK. In the company was reorganized as a limited corporation, and in the YKK trademark was registered. Anyway, in YKK opened their second manufacturing plant in Kurobe, Toyama, which marks the beginnings of their worldwide expansion.
November of sees the opening of their first overseas plant in New Zealand, and in the following decades the company also expanded to Canada, Kagawa and Swaziland. But how did they go from a small Japanese company to a zipper magnate in such a short time -and yes, a few decades is a short time in any company history.
Well, was a crucial year for the company, and it preceded many of their other worldwide expansions. In that year, the company invented the YZip — and extra durable high-quality zipper for jeans. And that same decade, jeans manufactured worldwide were designed to have zippers in the front. Plus, it was the sixties — men, women and children were wearing jeans, and people liked having the zippers on the front.
After the YZip was such a huge hit, the invention of a YZip machine followed. Drock January 11, am. Interesting, I looked down and my hoodie zipper said…YKK.
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It the south, they say KKK on them. How racist! Bob Bobson December 31, am. TiffanEyes January 9, pm. I love how i asked myself this question 2 days ago and stumbled the answer. Bryant January 9, pm. Claire Red January 23, pm. Eden February 6, pm. Fucking Japs! I got a carhartt on and i looked down at the zipper and its got ykk on it. George E premkumar February 11, am. Get the Insider App. Click here to learn more. A leading-edge research firm focused on digital transformation.
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