Yokohama (company)

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Yokohama Rubber Company, Ltd.

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legal form Kabushiki kaisha
ISIN JP3955800002
founding October 13, 1917
Seat Tokyo , Japan
management Tadanobu Nagumo
Number of employees 21,441 (2014)
sales JPY 625.25 billion (2014) EUR
4.32 billion
Branch Tire industry
Website www.yrc.co.jp

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The company Yokohama Rubber ( Jap. 横浜ゴム株式会社 , Yokohama Gomu Kabushiki Kaisha , Engl. The Yokohama Rubber Company, Limited ), listed on the Nikkei 225 , is headquartered in Tokyo , Japan , providing tires ago.

history

The company was founded in 1917 as a joint venture between Yokohama Cable Manufacturing and BF Goodrich Company (now: Goodrich Corporation ). The first own factory was opened in 1920 in Hiranuma , a district of Yokohama . This was destroyed in an earthquake in 1923 and rebuilt in Tsurumi-ku by 1929. The tires were marketed under the Goodrich name until 1937 and have been called Yokohama ever since. In the 1940s the company expanded rapidly, in addition to new factories in Japan, factories in China , Shanghai and Singapore were acquired . In 1969 the company expanded into the USA as the Yokohama Tire Company . In 1981 Goodrich sold its holdings in Yokohama. Today Yokohama is the eighth largest tire manufacturer in the world. In 2016, the Alliance Tire Group was taken over .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Annual Report 2015 , accessed on May 27, 2016
  2. ↑ Converted at the rate on the balance sheet date, December 31, 2014
  3. ↑ a b History , at www.y-yokohama.com , accessed on May 27, 2016
  4. ↑ Yokohama Rubber takes over the Alliance Tire Group for 1.05 billion euros , at www.reifenpresse.de , accessed on May 27, 2016