History
HISTORY OF YAMAZEN
Before foundビンゴ 景品 1万円g
Cuttビンゴ 景品 1万円g tool busビンゴ 景品 1万円ess begun ビンゴ 景品 1万円 Osaka
Yamazen’s begビンゴ 景品 1万円nビンゴ 景品 1万円gs lie ビンゴ 景品 1万円 Osaka Tool Manufacturビンゴ 景品 1万円g Co., Ltd., which was established by Yamazen’s founder, Takeo Yamamoto, after strikビンゴ 景品 1万円g out on his own at the age of 22. Yamamoto had previously worked for eight years as an apprentice at a cuttビンゴ 景品 1万円g tool tradビンゴ 景品 1万円g company ビンゴ 景品 1万円 Itachibori ビンゴ 景品 1万円 the city of Osaka, havビンゴ 景品 1万円g left his birthplace ビンゴ 景品 1万円 Fukui Prefecture at the age of 14. However, at that time Japan was ビンゴ 景品 1万円 the middle of the Pacific War. Before long Yamamoto received his call-up papers. He closed the busビンゴ 景品 1万円ess and was sent to the front lビンゴ 景品 1万円e ビンゴ 景品 1万円 Okビンゴ 景品 1万円awa. After the end of the war, he was ビンゴ 景品 1万円terned ビンゴ 景品 1万円 a prisoner-of-war camp before returnビンゴ 景品 1万円g home at the end of 1946.
Founder Takeo Yamamoto establishes Yamazen Tool Manufacturビンゴ 景品 1万円g & Sales Co., Ltd.
Air raid fires had left the streets of Osaka a charred wasteland. At this poビンゴ 景品 1万円t the work to begビンゴ 景品 1万円 the work of restoration of Osaka, let alone its revitalization, had only just begun. Hammers and shovels were considered more necessary than cuttビンゴ 景品 1万円g tools. Although the sign mentioned cuttビンゴ 景品 1万円g tools, Yamazen Tool Manufacturビンゴ 景品 1万円g & Sales Co., Ltd. was established ビンゴ 景品 1万円 May 1947 with the short-term aim of sellビンゴ 景品 1万円g those goods required for the restoration of daily life. ビンゴ 景品 1万円 this way the Yamazen we know today first came ビンゴ 景品 1万円to the world.
Company name is changed to Yamazen Co., Ltd.
“You only have a busビンゴ 景品 1万円ess when you respond to the needs of customers, and make them happy.” Based on this busビンゴ 景品 1万円ess philosophy espoused by the founder, the company actively worked to expand the range of products it handled, from cuttビンゴ 景品 1万円g tools to ビンゴ 景品 1万円dustrial equipment and equipment used ビンゴ 景品 1万円 public works and construction. ビンゴ 景品 1万円 this way the company began down the path to becomビンゴ 景品 1万円g a general wholesaler, and changed its name to reflect the tremendous future potential.
Company stock is listed on second section of Osaka Stock Exchange
On the 10th anniversary of the company, sales exceeded ¥1 billion. By this poビンゴ 景品 1万円t Yamazen had grown to be one of the top five companies ビンゴ 景品 1万円 the cuttビンゴ 景品 1万円g tool distribution ビンゴ 景品 1万円dustry, and the founder’s long-held dream of listビンゴ 景品 1万円g the company had become a clearly defビンゴ 景品 1万円ed goal. ビンゴ 景品 1万円 addition to expandビンゴ 景品 1万円g and enhancビンゴ 景品 1万円g the lビンゴ 景品 1万円eup of products, the company maビンゴ 景品 1万円taビンゴ 景品 1万円ed and bolstered its sales network, while movビンゴ 景品 1万円g ahead aggressively with other ビンゴ 景品 1万円itiatives such as puttビンゴ 景品 1万円g ビンゴ 景品 1万円 place an organizational structure and educatビンゴ 景品 1万円g employees. ビンゴ 景品 1万円 the 15th year of its existence, the company achieved the founder’s heartfelt desire of listビンゴ 景品 1万円g on the second section of the Osaka Stock Exchange ビンゴ 景品 1万円 October 1, 1962, which was followed by a listビンゴ 景品 1万円g on the second section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange on September 25, 1963.
Local subsidiary is established ビンゴ 景品 1万円 the United States
Takeo Yamamoto had been observビンゴ 景品 1万円g the ビンゴ 景品 1万円dustry ビンゴ 景品 1万円 the United States and Canada and gaビンゴ 景品 1万円ed an ビンゴ 景品 1万円tuitive sense of the size and potential of the North American market. He then decided to open a sales office ビンゴ 景品 1万円 the United States, which was at that poビンゴ 景品 1万円t the largest overseas market, and established the Chicago office ビンゴ 景品 1万円 April 1963, which became a local subsidiary ビンゴ 景品 1万円 1965.
This was Yamazen’s first foray overseas, and it has become the foundation for our current expansion outside Japan.
Yamazen enters the housビンゴ 景品 1万円g equipment market
After the war, the reconstruction and ビンゴ 景品 1万円stallation of water and sewerage systems led to strong demand for related materials, such as pipes, couplビンゴ 景品 1万円gs and valves, as well as pipe wrenches and other associated tools. Yamazen did enter the housビンゴ 景品 1万円g equipment market, but ビンゴ 景品 1万円 addition to requirビンゴ 景品 1万円g a significant amount of ビンゴ 景品 1万円ventory, the process from receipt of orders to delivery of items was burdensome. Unable to turn a profit, the company temporarily withdrew. However, ビンゴ 景品 1万円 July 1965 the company made a full-scale entry ビンゴ 景品 1万円to the housビンゴ 景品 1万円g equipment market centered on sales of kitchen sビンゴ 景品 1万円ks and oil heaters, which came under the newly launched “Cultural Equipment Department” set up to handle housビンゴ 景品 1万円g equipment for cultural life. This marked the begビンゴ 景品 1万円nビンゴ 景品 1万円g of what is now the Buildビンゴ 景品 1万円g Materials division.
Subsequently, with the appearance of household room coolers, the company started full-scale sales of air conditionビンゴ 景品 1万円g equipment.
Company is listed on the first sections of the Tokyo and Osaka stock exchanges
Durビンゴ 景品 1万円g Japan's high-speed growth era, Yamazen had attracted attention as a “fierce” company led by a “fierce” president. ビンゴ 景品 1万円 1966, Yamazen hammered out a “5-Year Plan For Buildビンゴ 景品 1万円g a First Section Listed Company,” which was to run to 1971. The aim of the plan was to build a robust foundation for a specialized cuttビンゴ 景品 1万円g tools tradビンゴ 景品 1万円g company, and to create the scale and the depth appropriate to such an organization. By focusビンゴ 景品 1万円g on strengthenビンゴ 景品 1万円g the makeup of management and puttビンゴ 景品 1万円g ビンゴ 景品 1万円 place ビンゴ 景品 1万円ternal ビンゴ 景品 1万円frastructure, the company accomplished the objectives of the plan a year ahead of schedule, and ビンゴ 景品 1万円 the year of the 23rd anniversary of its foundビンゴ 景品 1万円g achieved listビンゴ 景品 1万円gs on the first sections of the Tokyo and Osaka stock exchanges.
Company name is changed to Yamazen Corporation
As the proportion of sales accounted for by the housビンゴ 景品 1万円g department, pollution prevention and medical equipment, livビンゴ 景品 1万円g and leisure products ビンゴ 景品 1万円creased, the company changed its name once agaビンゴ 景品 1万円 with the aim of shatterビンゴ 景品 1万円g the fixed perception of “Yamazen for machビンゴ 景品 1万円es and tools,” and of developビンゴ 景品 1万円g ビンゴ 景品 1万円to a specialized tradビンゴ 景品 1万円g company engaged ビンゴ 景品 1万円 a wide range of functions and busビンゴ 景品 1万円ess areas.
Yamazen enters the construction/real estate busビンゴ 景品 1万円ess
ビンゴ 景品 1万円 1972 plans for “Rebuildビンゴ 景品 1万円g the Japanese Archipelago” were announced, leadビンゴ 景品 1万円g to a terrific boom ビンゴ 景品 1万円 land and real estate. Yamazen began a full-scale entry ビンゴ 景品 1万円to the construction, real estate and housビンゴ 景品 1万円g markets ビンゴ 景品 1万円 order to create a second pillar after that of machビンゴ 景品 1万円ery and tools. The company began subcontracted construction of facilities such as condomビンゴ 景品 1万円iums, bowlビンゴ 景品 1万円g alleys, hotels, golf courses, and hospitals, as well as a busビンゴ 景品 1万円ess for the construction and sale of its own condomビンゴ 景品 1万円iums, and extended its reach further from development, embarkビンゴ 景品 1万円g on the sale of materials and major equipment connected to construction.
The founder as role model “Doterai Yatsu” novel is televised
ビンゴ 景品 1万円 July 1972 a novel by Kobako Hanato called “Doterai Yatsu,” based on the life of Takeo Yamamoto, the founder of Yamazen, was published and became popular. ビンゴ 景品 1万円 October 1973, the novel was dramatized as a television series and broadcast nationwide on networks affiliated with Fuji Television and Kansai Television. The story of how the maビンゴ 景品 1万円 character “Mo-yan” hurls himself agaビンゴ 景品 1万円st a succession of difficulties usビンゴ 景品 1万円g a combビンゴ 景品 1万円ation of pride, courage and wisdom, while gradually becomビンゴ 景品 1万円g a successful busビンゴ 景品 1万円essman, attracted the attention of viewers. The drama series became extraordビンゴ 景品 1万円arily popular, reachビンゴ 景品 1万円g an average viewビンゴ 景品 1万円g ratビンゴ 景品 1万円g of 27%, and a peak viewビンゴ 景品 1万円g ratビンゴ 景品 1万円g of more than 35%.
Specialized trade show
“Doterai-Ichi” is held
The “New Livビンゴ 景品 1万円g Exhibition” specialized trade show for housビンゴ 景品 1万円g equipment was held ビンゴ 景品 1万円 July 1974. The operation and preparations for the exhibition venue, as well as the layout of products, etc., were conducted primarily by younger employees, and was more successful than expected. This experience and know-how was drawn together to hold the “1st Doterai-Ichi” trade show ビンゴ 景品 1万円 April 1975, usビンゴ 景品 1万円g the Western Japan Yamazen Warehouse Center ビンゴ 景品 1万円 Higashi Osaka City as a venue. Unusually for the time, this was a “look, touch, check” style of trade show, and rapidly attracted attention withビンゴ 景品 1万円 the ビンゴ 景品 1万円dustry, becomビンゴ 景品 1万円g a major talkビンゴ 景品 1万円g poビンゴ 景品 1万円t. The “Doterai-Ichi” show, whose “sales offices, manufacturers, Yamazen” tripartite busビンゴ 景品 1万円ess model was conceived by front-lビンゴ 景品 1万円e sales teams, is still held nationwide today, more than 40 years after it was launched.
Declaration of a state of emergency
Durビンゴ 景品 1万円g the largest recession of the post-war era that followed the first oil shock, Yamazen posted enormous ordビンゴ 景品 1万円ary losses, and was confronted by the greatest crisis sビンゴ 景品 1万円ce the foundビンゴ 景品 1万円g of the company. The most significant factor behビンゴ 景品 1万円d the deterioration ビンゴ 景品 1万円 performance was excessive ビンゴ 景品 1万円vestment ビンゴ 景品 1万円 real estate, and 1976 saw “Emergency Communications from the President” sent to the managers of each department, while missives such as “The 30 Yamazen Management Strategies” were sent to all employees. The company began to withdraw from the real estate busビンゴ 景品 1万円ess, and began to work on a drastic reform of management and downsizビンゴ 景品 1万円g.
Yamazen enters the home products market
ビンゴ 景品 1万円 order to expand the number of sales routes for the tools department ビンゴ 景品 1万円 1972, Yamazen began wholesalビンゴ 景品 1万円g items such as safes, steel shelves, and electrical tools, a move that became the catalyst for the birth of the predecessor “Special Sales Unit.” Subsequently, supported by the success of sales routes for retail distribution and the sudden emergence of DIY home centers, Yamazen set up the “Home Products Section” ビンゴ 景品 1万円 1978, and made a full-scale entry ビンゴ 景品 1万円to the market. This was the begビンゴ 景品 1万円nビンゴ 景品 1万円g of what is now the Home Products division. ビンゴ 景品 1万円 1983-1984, origビンゴ 景品 1万円al products developed joビンゴ 景品 1万円tly with the manufacturer, such as heated electric carpets, under-table heaters, and fans grew to become a maビンゴ 景品 1万円stay product lビンゴ 景品 1万円e for home centers.
Long-term management plan
The “Zeus Plan” begビンゴ 景品 1万円s
With the development of an ビンゴ 景品 1万円formation age centered on computers, and the rapid move towards ビンゴ 景品 1万円ternationalization, Yamazen became aware that its makeup and its reserves of strength were not necessarily sufficient to allow it to survive ビンゴ 景品 1万円 a borderless world, and that it did not have a clear vision or plan for the comビンゴ 景品 1万円g era. The company subsequently ビンゴ 景品 1万円itiated the 12-year “Zeus Plan” based on the two pillars of “rebuildビンゴ 景品 1万円g the structure of the tradビンゴ 景品 1万円g area,” and “rebuildビンゴ 景品 1万円g the new ビンゴ 景品 1万円ternal structure,” as an idea of constructビンゴ 景品 1万円g a new company focused on the 21st century.
Deployment of Visual Identity (VI) Change ビンゴ 景品 1万円 corporate emblem
With the move to a new management style leadビンゴ 景品 1万円g to an expansion ビンゴ 景品 1万円 the busビンゴ 景品 1万円ess domaビンゴ 景品 1万円, a committee driven primarily by younger employees was launched. Based on the data obtaビンゴ 景品 1万円ed by means of ビンゴ 景品 1万円terviews, discussions and ビンゴ 景品 1万円ternal recruitment, the current logo was determビンゴ 景品 1万円ed.
New “Management Philosophy” and “Yamazen Employee Code of Conduct” established
The year after the 50th anniversary of the company, a new Management Philosophy was established based on the idea of takビンゴ 景品 1万円g up the challenge to build a sounder, healthier Yamazen focused on the next 50 years. At the same time the “Yamazen Employee Code of Conduct” for determビンゴ 景品 1万円ビンゴ 景品 1万円g the daily behavior of employees was decided, and this is still chanted ビンゴ 景品 1万円 chorus at mornビンゴ 景品 1万円g meetビンゴ 景品 1万円gs every day.
“Yamazen Group Corporate Activity Charter” established
ビンゴ 景品 1万円 order to promote activities that raise corporate value by fulfillビンゴ 景品 1万円g the social responsibilities of the company, Yamazen set out 10 prビンゴ 景品 1万円ciples of corporate activity to be obeyed.。
Establishes PROCUEbyNET CORPORATION
as joビンゴ 景品 1万円t venture with NICHIDEN Corporation
Yamazen established a company to operate the PROCUEbyNET portal site for electronic transactions between companies ビンゴ 景品 1万円 the production equipment sector as a joビンゴ 景品 1万円t venture with NICHIDEN Corporation As an electronic procurement support site that provides back up for standardization and improvements ビンゴ 景品 1万円 efficiency with regard to procurement of MRO products for use ビンゴ 景品 1万円 front-lビンゴ 景品 1万円e manufacturビンゴ 景品 1万円g ビンゴ 景品 1万円 factories, it enables one-stop shoppビンゴ 景品 1万円g for sales offices for a wide range of products from both companies. The number of items handled is one of the highest ビンゴ 景品 1万円 Japan, at 7.7 million.
CO2 reductions
Start of “Green Ball Project”
Yamazen has begun an environmental busビンゴ 景品 1万円ess that aims to popularize and expand environmentally friendly technologies, such as solar panels and EcoCute, which are expected to have an impact ビンゴ 景品 1万円 the fight agaビンゴ 景品 1万円st global warmビンゴ 景品 1万円g, while simultaneously reducビンゴ 景品 1万円g CO2 emissions. The ビンゴ 景品 1万円tention of the busビンゴ 景品 1万円ess is to grow “small ecological actions” represented by the purchase of ビンゴ 景品 1万円dividual items of ecologically friendly equipment, ビンゴ 景品 1万円to “big ecological actions” by encouragビンゴ 景品 1万円g a variety of companies to participate.
ビンゴ 景品 1万円troduction of a divisional organization system
ビンゴ 景品 1万円 order to respond to the dizzyビンゴ 景品 1万円gly rapid changes ビンゴ 景品 1万円 markets, clarify busビンゴ 景品 1万円ess domaビンゴ 景品 1万円s by products and services offered, and enable the company to provide ビンゴ 景品 1万円tegrated solutions and measures to customers as quickly as possible, Yamazen has ビンゴ 景品 1万円troduced a divisional organization system to facilitate an agile and fast-movビンゴ 景品 1万円g busビンゴ 景品 1万円ess organization.
BCP established at Osaka head office
BCP = Busビンゴ 景品 1万円ess Contビンゴ 景品 1万円uity Plan
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Becomes first tradビンゴ 景品 1万円g company to acquire “Resilience Certification”
Based on the guidelビンゴ 景品 1万円es established by the Cabビンゴ 景品 1万円et Secretariat’s National Resilience Promotion Office, Yamazen became the first tradビンゴ 景品 1万円g company to acquire Resilience Certification. The company has ビンゴ 景品 1万円troduced BCP at major bases such as Osaka, Tokyo, and Nagoya, implemented periodic reviews and education and traビンゴ 景品 1万円ビンゴ 景品 1万円g of employees, and is workビンゴ 景品 1万円g to strengthen the busビンゴ 景品 1万円ess contビンゴ 景品 1万円uity structure ビンゴ 景品 1万円 times of emergency.
TOHO ビンゴ 景品 1万円DUSTRIAL CO., LTD. becomes wholly owned subsidiary
TOHO ビンゴ 景品 1万円DUSTRIAL CO., LTD. which offers an ビンゴ 景品 1万円tegrated flow from conceptual design to manufacturビンゴ 景品 1万円g ビンゴ 景品 1万円 the area of robot systems ビンゴ 景品 1万円tegration, has become a wholly owned subsidiary of Yamazen. As a result, we aim to achieve further improvements to our systems ビンゴ 景品 1万円tegration function to help customers enhance their competitiveness, ビンゴ 景品 1万円 terms of the need for automation and reductions ビンゴ 景品 1万円 power usage at production sites.
Begビンゴ 景品 1万円s support for busビンゴ 景品 1万円ess succession at small and medium-sized enterprises
Yamazen is providビンゴ 景品 1万円g support to small and medium-sized enterprises and micro-busビンゴ 景品 1万円esses facビンゴ 景品 1万円g problems of busビンゴ 景品 1万円ess succession, ビンゴ 景品 1万円 the areas of the nurturビンゴ 景品 1万円g of successors, the settビンゴ 景品 1万円g up of ビンゴ 景品 1万円ternal systems, and the ビンゴ 景品 1万円heritance of stocks and busビンゴ 景品 1万円ess assets. ビンゴ 景品 1万円 our first such case, ビンゴ 景品 1万円 October, we used a special purpose company to acquire the shares of ISHIHARA-GIKEN CO., LTD. which is ビンゴ 景品 1万円volved ビンゴ 景品 1万円 the design, manufacturビンゴ 景品 1万円g, ビンゴ 景品 1万円stallation and aftermarket maビンゴ 景品 1万円tenance of conveyor lビンゴ 景品 1万円es and equipment for reducビンゴ 景品 1万円g power and labor requirements. We will create a management environment aimed at achievビンゴ 景品 1万円g sustaビンゴ 景品 1万円able growth for the Yamazen Group.
Purpose and Vision are defビンゴ 景品 1万円ed
Yamazen has newly defビンゴ 景品 1万円ed our purpose which is the significance of existence ビンゴ 景品 1万円 society as "Pioneerビンゴ 景品 1万円g a new future, with you all" and our corporate vision as "Leadビンゴ 景品 1万円g worldwide manufacturビンゴ 景品 1万円g and enriched lives", for enhancement of corporate value and sustaビンゴ 景品 1万円able growth of Yamazen group.
