🇯🇵 Japanese brands and who owns them
Of 155 Japanese consumer brands tracked here, 11 (7%) are owned by companies headquartered outside Japan, most often in the United States, China and Thailand.
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155
Japanese brands
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11
foreign-owned · 7%
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144
domestically owned
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33
Japanese brand owners
Who bought the Japanese brands?
| Owner country | Brands | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 United States | 4 | Aquarius (Coca-Cola), Ayataka (Coca-Cola), Georgia (Coca-Cola), SK-II (Procter & Gamble) |
| 🇨🇳 China | 3 | AQUA (Haier), Descente (China) (Anta Sports), Toshiba (Midea) |
| 🇹🇭 Thailand | 1 | Lipovitan-D (Thailand) (Osotspa) |
| 🇭🇰 Hong Kong | 1 | Ryobi (Techtronic Industries) |
| 🇵🇭 Philippines | 1 | Yoshinoya (Philippines) (Jollibee Group) |
| 🇫🇷 France | 1 | shu uemura (L'Oréal) |
Japanese companies that own brands
- Glico · 14 brands
- Morinaga · 10 brands
- Asahi Group · 9 brands
- Calbee · 9 brands
- Lion · 9 brands
- KOSÉ · 8 brands
- Sapporo · 8 brands
- Suntory · 8 brands
- House Foods · 7 brands
- Kao · 7 brands
- Sony · 7 brands
- Kagome · 6 brands
- Kirin · 6 brands
- Kobayashi Pharmaceutical · 6 brands
- Shiseido · 6 brands
- Kikkoman · 5 brands
- Nintendo · 5 brands
- Unicharm · 5 brands
- Ajinomoto · 4 brands
- Bandai Namco · 4 brands
- Capcom · 4 brands
- Fast Retailing · 4 brands
- Kewpie · 4 brands
- Meiji · 4 brands
- Nissin Foods · 4 brands
- Otsuka · 4 brands
- Sega Sammy · 4 brands
- Toyota · 4 brands
- ASICS · 3 brands
- Pigeon · 3 brands
- Square Enix · 3 brands
- Yakult · 2 brands
- Seven & i · 1 brands