Ichibanya

Ichibanya Co., Ltd.
株式会社壱番屋

Curry House CoCo Ichibanya
Type	Public
Industry	Foodservice
Founded	1 July 1982
Headquarters	Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan
Number of locations	1,268 (July 2011) [1]
Area served	Japan Hawaii California, USA China Taiwan South Korea Thailand Malaysia Hong Kong Singapore The Philippines
Key people	Toshiya Hamajima, president and representative director
Products	Curry rice Ankake Spaghetti
Revenue	¥38,043 million (May 2010)
Operating income	¥3,685 million (May 2010)
Net income	¥1,770 million (May 2010)
Total assets	¥28,922 million (May 2010)
Number of employees	775
Website	www.ichibanya.co.jp/english/index.html www.ichibanyausa.com

Ichibanya Co., Ltd. (株式会社壱番屋 Kabushiki gaisha Ichiban'ya) (TYO: 7630) is a Japanese food services company based in Ichinomiya, Aichi.

CoCo Ichibanya chain

CoCo Ichibanya Curry House restaurant

Ichibanya Co., Ltd. owns the top curry rice restaurant chain in Japan, Curry House CoCo Ichibanya or usually just CoCo Ichiban or CoCo Ichi. The chain owns both direct and franchise restaurants in total of ten countries: United States, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, People’s Republic of China, Republic of China, Malaysia, Hong Kong, South Korea, the Philippines, and Japan. ^{[2] [3]}　The Curry House chain is by far the company's largest business.

• United States: 8 Branches
• Thailand: 27 Branches
• Malaysia: 2 Branch
• Indonesia: 2 Branch (Bekasi and Jakarta City)
• Singapore: 3 Branches
• People’s Republic of China: 42 Branches
• Republic of China: 21 Branches
• Hong Kong: 7 Branches
• South Korea: 20 Branches (21 in the future)
• The Philippines: 5 Branches (Estancia Pasig City, One Rockwell West Tower, Greenhills, Burgos Park Bonifacio Global City, Eastwood City)
• Japan: 1,177 Branches

Pasta de Coco

The company also operates 25 restaurants in Japan under the name Pasta de Coco. It sells a pasta dish which is a kind of spaghetti with starchy sauce known as Ankake spaghetti (あんかけスパゲッティ ankake supagetti). This dish is one of the distinctive foods of the Nagoya metropolitan area.^[4][5]

References

1. "Company Profile". Ichibanya Co., Ltd. Retrieved 24 December 2010.
2. "ココ壱番屋日本のレストランのリスト".
3. "ココ壱番屋外国のレストランのリスト" (PDF).
4. "ICHIBANYA CO., LTD. (Public, TYO:7630)". Google, Inc. Retrieved 24 December 2010.
5. パスタでココ (in Japanese). Ichibanya Co., Ltd. Retrieved 24 December 2010.

External links

• CoCo Ichibanya's official web site
• CoCo Ichibanya USA official web site
• Pasta de CoCo's official web site (Japanese)