- CEO
- Hideto Oda
- Full Time Employees
- 6,414
- Sector
- Consumer non-durables
- Industry
- Food: major diversified
- Address
- 2-13-34 Hakata Station East Fukuoka FK Japan 812-8548
- IPO Date
- Oct 1, 2021
- Business
- Yamae Group Holdings Co., Ltd. is a Japan-based holding company that oversees subsidiaries engaged in comprehensive wholesale distribution, manufacturing, and processing primarily in food-related, sugar/flour/feed/livestock, housing/real estate, and other sectors including transportation, fuel, rental cars, and information processing services; it offers processed and frozen foods, confectionery, alcoholic beverages, grains, livestock and marine products, feed, boxed lunches, shochu, agricultural and marine products, housing construction materials, equipment, lumber, construction works, and real estate leasing/sales, with additional operations in Pizza Hut franchising (600 locations nationwide), Warai Sushi production/export, and solar power generation. Founded in 1950 as the successor to a 1930 family wholesale business and headquartered in Fukuoka, Japan, the company operates mainly from a Kyushu base while expanding nationwide and overseas, serving food manufacturers, retailers, restaurants, and construction sectors across Japan with 50% of FY2023 net sales outside Kyushu. Recent developments under the Progress Go’25 medium-term plan (FY2023-2025, targets revised upward to 1 trillion yen net sales and 22 billion yen ordinary profit by FY2025) include six major FY2023-2024 acquisitions totaling over 52 billion yen—Lumber One Inc. (housing materials, September 2023), Chao Holdings Co., Ltd. (food, October 2023), Kaneki Kogyo Co., Ltd. (logistics/food, October 2023), Confex Holdings Co., Ltd. (16.1 billion yen, food distribution, December 2023), MAR Co., Ltd. (January 2024), and Topran Co., Ltd. (poultry farming, February 2024)—alongside new facilities like Echo Delica and Kajima Giken head offices/factories (2024), Pizza Hut expansion to all 47 prefectures (August 2023), DX initiatives including next-generation TSUNAGU core system and Eagle logistics (FY2024-2025), a 12.4 billion yen public stock offering (January 2024), and sustainability efforts such as the Yamae no Mori tree-planting and DX Certification (May 2024).