Yamazen At a Glance
Yamazen is a trading company specializing in production equipment and consumer goods with “Pioneering a new future, with all of you” as its Purpose.
As a specialized trading company that handles a broad range of production equipment that supports global manufacturing, such as machine tools, industrial equipment, cutting tools, and automation robots, as well as consumer goods that provide comfortable environments for buildings of all kinds, including housing, offices, facilities, and factories, and lifestyle products that enrich people’s lives, we help solve challenges for customers around the world and improve quality of life.
In April 2022, we established our Purpose, “Pioneering a new future, with all of you,” which represents our reason for being in society.“with all of you” includes not only the stakeholders involved with Yamazen but goes beyond to include their people and the global environment.
What we do What Yamazen Can Do
Leading worldwide manufacturing and enriched lives
We are a specialized trading company that operates in two major domains: production equipment and consumer goods. In production equipment, we handle products that support global manufacturing, such as machine tools, industrial equipment, cutting tools, and automation robots, and in consumer goods, we handle housing equipment that creates comfortable and convenient residential and office environments as well as lifestyle products that enrich daily life. We continue to create new value through strong relationships with our many suppliers and distributors cultivated over our history of more than 70 years, a network that spans the globe, and human resources who possess a pioneering spirit.
Business Overview
Production Equipment
Consumer Goods
Numbers Yamazen by the Numbers
Founded
78 years ago
Yamazen’s business
Net sales
516,126 Millions of yen
Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2025
Operating profit
9,535 Millions of yen
Fiscal Year Ended March 31, 2025
Number of employees
Approximately 3,200 people work at Yamazen Group. 40% of these are already active overseas. The company continues to become more global in outlook. （Including non-consolidated subsidiaries）
Sales ratio of production equipment and consumer goods
Although the public tend to think of “YAMAZEN” as an electrical appliance manufacturer, in reality production equipment makes up for more than 60% of sales.
The figures in the chart are all
from the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025
Sales composition ratio by business division
Yamazen’s business consists primarily of the five division headquarters of Machine Tools, Industrial Solution, Tool & Engineering, Global Business, Building Materials, and Home Products.
The figures in the chart are all
from the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025
Yamazen goes global
The Yamazen Group is utilizing the know-how it has accumulated over the course of many years to open up new markets and develop new business models globally.
The figures in the chart are all
from the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025
As of end of March 2025
People working at the Yamazen Group
As of end of March 2025
Yamazen’s sustainability initiatives
Here we present some of Yamazen’s sustainability initiatives that explore what we can do as a trading company.
Green Ball Project
Contributing to the global environment by promoting environmentally friendly equipment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (CO2) from households and factories.
Green Ball Project CO2 Reduction
611,098 t‐Co2
Cumulative results from FY2008 to FY2024
Takeo Yamamoto Memorial Scholarship Fund
“I was not able to study enough, even though I wanted to, and I used this sense of frustration as a springboard to master management. I want as many people as possible to apply themselves to study.”These were the words of our founder, Takeo Yamamoto, and we established this scholarship fund in 1992 to inherit his will.
Number of students who received the scholarship
133 students
Cumulative results from FY1992 to FY2024
“Japan Resilience Award”
Our risk management is highly rated
We received the Japan Resilience Award for the ninth year in a row in recognition of a project of ours that aims to secure and maintain the workforce as well as ensure a stable supply of products and services during the Osaka-Kansai Expo by considering and implementing a business continuity plan (BCP) in preparation for disruptions in human traffic and logistics due to the Expo.
Japan Resilience Award
Award won for 9 consecutive years
From 2017 to 2025
*What is the “Japan Resilience Award”?・・・
A system in which awards are granted by the Association for Resilience Japan in recognition of initiatives to build a more resilient society in preparation for the next generation.
Yamazen will remain a presence that pioneers a new future with customers and markets.
