YKK

Japanese zipper manufacturer
Organization business Q938203
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YKK

Summary

YKK is a business[1]. YKK ranks in the top 2% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,942 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • YKK is in the country of Japan[3].
  • YKK is in the country of JP[4].
  • YKK is in the country of US[5].
  • YKK's instance of is recorded as business[6].
  • YKK's instance of is recorded as enterprise[7].
  • YKK's instance of is recorded as kabushiki gaisha[8].
  • YKK's headquarters location is recorded as Kanda-Izumichō[9].
  • YKK's child organization or unit is recorded as YKK (United Kingdom)[10].
  • YKK's Commons category is recorded as YKK Group[11].
  • YKK's industry is recorded as industrial manufacturing[12].
  • January 1, 1934 marks the founding of YKK[13].
  • 1934 marks the founding of YKK[14].
  • 1943-06-02 marks the founding of YKK[15].
  • 1987-09-10 marks the founding of YKK[16].
  • YKK's official website is recorded as http://www.ykk.co.jp/[17].
  • YKK's legal form is recorded as kabushiki gaisha[18].
  • YKK's legal form is recorded as T417[19].
  • YKK's legal form is recorded as PJ10[20].
  • YKK's P14750 is recorded as 65F3-2D0B-4A87-7423-294D[21].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 549300PK1TLDN21WXJ36[22]

  • Registered legal name: Ykk Corporation of America[23]

  • Legal jurisdiction: US-NY[24]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[25]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): PJ10[26]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[27]

  • LEI registration status: LAPSED[28]

  • Entity created: 1987-09-10[29]

  • LEI first registered: 2012-12-20[30]

  • LEI last updated: 2025-12-02[31]

  • LEI next renewal: 2014-12-24[32]

  • Managing LOU: 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12[33]

  • Registration authority: RA000628[34]

  • Authority entity ID: 1201116[35]

  • Other names: Ykk Corporation[36]

  • Conformity flag: NON_CONFORMING[37]

Body

Founding

Recorded inception include January 1, 1934[13], 1934[14], 1943-06-02[15], and 1987-09-10[16].

Operations

YKK's headquarters location is recorded as Kanda-Izumichō[9]. YKK's child organization or unit is recorded as YKK (United Kingdom)[10].

Industry

YKK's industry is recorded as industrial manufacturing[12].

Why It Matters

YKK ranks in the top 2% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,942 views/month).[2] YKK has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[38] YKK is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[39]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [22] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [25] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [26] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [27] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [28] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [29] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [30] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [31] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [32] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [33] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [34] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [35] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [36] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  16. [37] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [38] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [39] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 28d ago · IdeasMagnet · 2026-09-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Openstreetmap way id → 840326007
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P10689]]: 840326007, Adding OSM way id claim from wikidata tag on way/840326007 in United States"
  2. 6w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → —
    Country → Japan, JP, US
    Country → —
    Child organization or unit → YKK (United Kingdom)
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P14750]]: 65F3-2D0B-4A87-7423-294D, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269254|batch #269254]]"
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