Yazaki

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Yazaki Corporation
Native name
 矢崎総業株式会社
Private KK
Industry Automotive
Founded (October 8, 1941 (1941-10-08))
Founder Sadami Yazaki
Headquarters Mita 1-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-8333, Japan
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 Yasuhiko Iwasaki
(Chairman)
Shinji Yamazaki
(President)
Products
Revenue

Increase JPY 1,662.3 billion (FY 2014)

(US$ 13.8 billion) (FY 2014)
Number of employees
 279,800 people (as of March 31, 2015)
Website Official website
Footnotes / references
[1][2]/ar.html[3]

Yazaki Corporation (矢崎総業株式会社 Yazaki Sōgyō Kabushiki Kaisha) is a global automotive parts supplier with a focus on wire harnesses, instruments and components such as connectors and terminals. The company's origin and headquarters are in Japan, but in 2011, roughly 90% of its employees are outside the home country.

Yazaki ranks among the largest worldwide automotive suppliers, ranked 10th by the industry journal Automotive News in 2013.[4]

The company's product lineup includes electrical cables, meter and auto instruments, gas equipment, air-conditioning, and solar-powered systems. As a first tier supplier, Yazaki sells chiefly to auto makers, and, to a lesser extent, electric power, gas, and general construction companies. Yazaki is among the top 100 companies receiving the most US patents. [5]

With "A Corporation in Step with the World" and "A Corporation Needed by Society" as their corporate policy, Yazaki is committed to being environment-friendly in every aspect of their business. Yazaki has developed and produced a long line of eco-friendly and energy saving products, inventing the world's first solar thermal powered air conditioning system in 1974, and the world's first wood biomass energy air conditioning system in 2008.[2]

Yazaki North America Headquarters

The Yazaki Group is headquartered in the Mita-Kokusai Building (三田国際ビル Mita Kokusai Biru) in Mita, in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.[6] The company has its European headquarters in Cologne, Germany and the North American headquarters in Canton, Michigan.

History and expansion

Starting as a small Japanese family business selling wiring harnesses for automobiles in 1929, Yazaki Group in 2011 employs more than 192,000 people worldwide, with ca. 90% of them (171.000) outside Japan.[7] After World War II, Yazaki focused on automotive wire harness production and grew rapidly. Overseas growth increased strongly between 1974 and the 1990s. There were external and internal reasons for this increase. The main external reason was the general trend of Japanese automotive companies to move production abroad to avoid trade sanctions in this period.[8] This strategy change was accompanied by a change of leadership within Yazaki, when the young heir Yasuhiko Yazaki succeeded the founder Sadami Yazaki in 1974, aged only 33. Between 1974 and 1990, overseas sales grew roughly 30 times (from ca. ¥4 Billion in 1974 to ¥116 Billion), while overseas employees increased tenfold ( from 2,922 to 33,703).[9]

Main business areas

Yazaki's business is concentrated in the automotive industry and focuses on three areas: Electrical Distribution Systems (e.g. wire harnesses), Electronics & Instrumentation, and Components. As a first tier supplier, Yazaki interacts directly with car makers such as Toyota, Honda, GM, Ford, Fiat Chrysler, Tesla, Subaru, Nissan, Mazda, Jaguar Land Rover, PSA, etc. and coordinates parts of development, sub-component sourcing, testing and assembly.

Electrical Distribution Systems: Wire harness production is a labor-intensive process and requires high degrees of coordination of and closeness to the car manufacturer. Yazaki is among the global leaders in this area with a business share of close to 30%.[9][5][10]

Electronics & Instrumentation: In the highly mobile and innovative business of automotive electronics and instruments, Yazaki provides Instrument Clusters, Display and Clock Modules, Power Distribution Boxes, as well as Body Electronics, Head Up Displays (HUD) and Combi Switches. The company also offers HMI solutions, and system support for Intelligent Electronic, Power & Signal Distribution.[10]

Components: Yazaki develops and produces specialized automotive connectors and terminals.[10]

Price fixing

On January 30, 2012, the US Justice Department announced after two years of investigation that it had discovered part of a massive price fixing scheme in which Denso and Yazaki played a significant role. The conspiracy, which fixed prices and allocated components to such car manufacturers as Toyota and Honda, extended from Michigan to Japan, where it was also under investigation. Denso agreed to pay a fine of 78 million dollars.[11] Yazaki agreed to pay a fine of $470 million, and four Yazaki executives were sentenced to prison and assessed a $20,000 fine each.[12]

References

  1. ↑ "Company Profile" (in Japanese). Yazaki Corporation. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Annual Report". Yazaki Corporation. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Company Overview". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Top 100 global OEM parts suppliers" (PDF). Automotive News. Crain Communications. June 17, 2013. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
  5. 1 2 "Company Profiles". Hoover's, Inc. Retrieved April 5, 2012.
  6. ↑ "Global Network - Japan". Yazaki Corporation. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
  7. ↑ "Yazaki Corporation Social & Environmental Report 2011" (PDF). Yazaki corporation. 2011. Retrieved December 24, 2015.
  8. ↑ James P. Womack; Daniel T. Jones; Daniel Roos (1990). The Machine that Changed the World. Harper Perennial. ISBN 978-1-84737-055-6.
  9. 1 2 Ichijo, Kazuo (2007), The Yazaki Corporation Article written for the IMD – Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch Distinguished Family Business Award 2007 (PDF), Yazaki Corporation
  10. 1 2 3 "Yazaki Europe Product Overview Homepage". Yazaki Corporation. Retrieved April 5, 2012.
  11. ↑ "U.S. fines Japanese auto parts suppliers $470 million". Japan Times. Associated Press. February 1, 2012. p. 1.
  12. ↑ "Two auto parts suppliers fined $548M for price fixing". USA Today. January 30, 2012. Retrieved December 24, 2015.

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