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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.
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