Yazaki Sōgyō
| Yazaki Sōgyō
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| legal form | Kabushiki kaisha (joint stock company) |
| founding | October 8, 1941 |
| Seat |
Minato , Tokyo Prefecture , Japan
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| Number of employees | 306.118 |
| sales | 1,926.6 billion yen |
| Branch | Automotive supplier |
| Website | www.yazaki-group.com |
| As of June 20, 2018 | |
Yazaki KK ( Jap. 矢崎総業株式会社 , Yazaki Kabushiki Kaisha , Eng. Yazaki Corporation ) is a from Japan derived automotive supplier . He manufactures cabling sets , connectors , displays and combination switches .
The charging plug for electric vehicles, standardized today according to IEC 62196 as SAE J1772 Type 1, goes back to a design by the company from 2009 and is mainly used in Japanese electric vehicles ( Nissan Leaf , Mitsubishi i-MiEV ), but also in the Chevrolet Volt or Opel Ampera or the French mia used.
The group of companies consists of 167 subsidiaries (including 67 in Japan) and employs 306,118 people in 46 countries worldwide (including 20,056 in Japan).
Customers include BMW , General Motors , Mercedes-Benz , Ford , Toyota , Jaguar Land Rover , PSA , Nissan and Honda . The company employs 36,500 people in Europe and around 320 in Germany at its locations in Leinfelden-Echterdingen , Regensburg , Brake (Unterweser) and Cologne .
The US Department of Justice announced on January 30, 2012 that it had uncovered significant price-fixing agreements between automotive suppliers. Yazaki then agreed to pay a fine of $ 470 million and four senior executives were given prison terms of up to two years.
See also
- Yazaki Wiring Technologies Lietuva , Lithuania
Individual evidence
- ^ President's Greeting
- ↑ a b c Global Network as of June 20, 2018
- ↑ Annual Report 2018
- ↑ Corporate identity for Europe
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: firmenverzeichnis.de
- ↑ Associated Press : US fines Japanese auto parts suppliers $ 470 million. Japan Times , February 1, 2012, p. 1.