YKK Group
The
YKK Group is a Japanese group of manufacturing companies. The company was founded in
1934 by Tadao Yoshida in Higashi Nihonbashi,
Tokyo. Originally known as Yoshida Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha. Famous for making zip fasteners (known as
zips in the UJ, or
zippers in the USA). It was renamed to Yoshida Kogyo K.K. in
1945 and to YKK in
1994. The term YKK was first registered as a
trademark in
1946.