- Business
- Ya-Man Ltd. (TSE:6630) manufactures and sells beauty and health equipment, cosmetics, and related products worldwide. Founded in 1978 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, the company offers a comprehensive lineup of home-use facial and body beauty devices including the RF-based Photo PLUS Prestige series (Prestige PRO, SP III, Deep Lift), EMS wearable devices such as Medi Lift PLUS and Eye, microcurrent mysé series (Liftlogy SP, THE MIYABI), IPL hair removal like IPL Clear Shot and Rei Beauté R Flash Hyper, cavitation devices including Cavispa RF Core PLUS, and hair care tools such as YA-MAN SPA STYLER (various models for blow dry, straight, wave, curl), Lift Dryer, and HOT SHAVE electric shaver; complementary cosmetics and skincare products encompassing MediLift Needle Lift Cream, Moisture Serum, Eye Serum, Skin Tightening Mask, EMS Shape Gel, Power Booster Pads (VC Booster, Clean, Hydrate), Flawless Serum Hydrating, and brands like ONLY MINERALS mineral foundations, MINERALair spray makeup, and MAKANAI clean Japanese-style skincare; professional salon equipment under YA-MAN Professional; along with sales channels spanning mail order, store retail, direct sales, and overseas markets in Asia (China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam), North America (U.S. via YA-MAN U.S.A. LTD.), Europe, Australia, Russia, and the Middle East. Subsidiaries include YA-MAN (Shanghai) Beauty Technology Co., Ltd., YA-MAN (Zhejiang) E-Commerce Co., Ltd., LABO WELL Co., Ltd., and forty-four.inc. Recent developments encompass expanding salon equipment sales and opening a large-scale permanent store in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in 2024; launching operations in Saudi Arabia as its Middle East entry and surpassing 4 million cumulative shipments of Professional and Business Use series in 2025; completing the sale of shares in Macherie Beauty Technology in January 2025; transitioning to a company with an audit committee and shifting fiscal year-end to December from April starting the 52nd fiscal year in 2025; achieving FDA clearance for Medi Lift PLUS in the U.S. in 2023 to bolster full-scale market entry; opening the YA-MAN the store GINZA flagship with FACE LIFT GYM in 2023-2024; forming a joint venture EFFECTIM Co., Ltd. with Shiseido in 2020 (subsequently adjusted); and acquiring MAKANAI and Professional brands in 2020 while establishing the YA-MAN Scholarship Foundation in 2021 for female engineers.