- CEO
- Masataka Yamaishi
- Full Time Employees
- 34,198
- Sector
- Consumer Cyclical
- Industry
- Auto - Parts
- Address
- 36-11, Shimbashi 5-chome Hiratsuka Japan 105-8685
- IPO Date
- Mar 28, 2016
- Business
- The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. manufactures and sells tires and rubber products worldwide. The company produces tires for passenger cars, trucks and buses, light trucks, mining and construction equipment, industrial vehicles, agricultural and forestry machinery; aluminum alloy wheels and automobile-related components; conveyor belts, rubber plates, various hoses, marine fenders, oil spill containment booms, marine hoses, rubber molded products, air springs, aerospace products; and golf-related products alongside information processing services. Yokohama Rubber operates in more than 120 countries across Japan, Asia, Europe, Russia, North America, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa. Founded in 1917 and headquartered in Hiratsuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, the company ranks as the world's eighth-largest tire maker by market share. In a major strategic expansion, Yokohama Rubber completes the acquisition of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company's Off-the-Road tire business in February 2025 for $905 million, enhancing its capabilities in mining and construction tires from 25-inch to 63-inch models and aligning with the Yokohama Transformation 2026 growth strategy; it further acquires a former Eurotire mining tire plant in Romania in June 2025 to bolster off-highway tire production.