- CEO
- Akito Mizuno
- Full Time Employees
- 3,682
- Sector
- Consumer non-durables
- Industry
- Apparel/Footwear
- Address
- 1-12-35, Nankokita Osaka OS Japan 559-8510
- IPO Date
- Dec 1, 1962
- Business
- Mizuno Corporation (8022.T), founded in 1906 and headquartered in Osaka, Japan, manufactures and sells sporting goods worldwide, including in Japan, Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Oceania; it offers baseball products such as gloves, mitts, bats, and balls; golf clubs and accessories including drivers, irons, wedges, and putters under lines like JPX and Mizuno Pro; sports shoes encompassing running models like Wave Rider, Wave Sky, and Neo series with Enerzy foam and Wave Plate technologies, as well as football boots like Morelia and BASARA, volleyball shoes like Wave Lightning, and track cleats; sportswear featuring moisture-wicking DryLite, breathable Dry AeroFlow, and heat-retaining Thermal Charge fabrics; and equipment for table tennis, badminton, swimming, tennis, and indoor sports through subsidiary SENOH, alongside services for sports facility construction, operation, and maintenance. The company operates through segments of sports equipment (49% of sales), apparel (31%), and footwear (20%), targeting athletes from professionals to casual users with innovations like high-resilience MIZUNO ENERZY midsoles, stain-resistant Pure Hyper, and warming Techfill Breath Thermo materials. Recent developments include a multiyear partnership with AW Sports as exclusive distributor in Mexico announced in November 2024, implementation of Centric PLM software going live in April 2025 to enhance product lifecycle management and digital transformation launched in June 2024, a major partnership with AS Monaco effective July 2025 to supply equipment for all teams, establishment of subsidiaries such as Mizuno APAC (Vietnam) LTD and Mizuno Corporation UK LTD in 2024-2025, launch of industry-first 3D U-Fit personalized walking shoes with 3D-printed custom midsoles in November 2024 available for order from April 2025, full-scale entry into the sleep market with MIZUNO SLEEP series in 2023, and opening of directly operated stores like Mizuno Shop Shinsaibashi and Rinku Premium Outlets in 2023-2024. Mizuno maintains 3,649 consolidated employees as of March 31, 2025, with paid-in capital of 26,137 million yen, and continues to expand via sustainability initiatives, e-commerce, and R&D at its Innovation Center MIZUNO ENGINE opened in 2022.