This document provides an overview of the Yakult Group as of March 2013 including:
- The number of marketing companies, bottling plants, affiliated companies, and employees in Japan and overseas.
- Background information on Yakult Honsha, the company founded in 1955 by Minoru Shirota to market a probiotic drink fermented with Lactobacillus casei.
- Examples of Yakult packaging from various international markets.
- Details on Indonesia Yakult Co., Ltd including its location, start date, number of employees, business scope, and environmental activities.
2. Profile of Yakult Group (as of March 31, 2013)
Japan Marketing companies: 107 companies
Bottling plants: 6 companies
Affiliated companies, etc.: 15 companies and 4 associations
Number of employees: 14,037
Number of Yakult Ladies: 39,924
Overseas Business sites: 26 companies and 1 research
laboratory
Marketing regions: 30 countries and regions
Number of employees: 15,445
Number of Yakult Ladies: 41,752
Profile of Yakult Honsha
Name: Yakult Honsha Co., Ltd.
Address: 1-19 Higashi-Shimbashi 1-chome,
Minato-ku,
Tokyo 105-8660, Japan
Founded: April 9, 1955
Businesses: Manufacturing and marketing
of dairy products, foodstuffs,
pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and others
3. Yakult’s founder, Minoru Shirota, M.D.
(1899-1982)
by fermenting a mixture of skimmed milk
with a special strain of
the bacterium Lactobacillus casei ,
Named L. casei shirota strain
4. Marketed in different size
Yakult (Australia)
Yakult- Mexico
Yakult- Brazil
The Indian
packing for yakult
300 ml packing in
Taiwan
Yakult- Thailand
The Indonesian packing for yakult
5. Indonesia Yakult Co., Ltd.
Location: Jakarta
Start of operations: February 1990
Number of employees: 3,135
Business scope: Manufacture and marketing of
Yakult
ISO22000 certification: 2011
Environmental activities
Since December 2010, the Sukabumi Plant has
operated the A&G
Environmental Water Purification System. In
light of the delayed development
of local infrastructure, the company is using its
new water purification
system as a demonstration facility.