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A Message For Our Customers
More new products will be released in 2020, so be sure to keep in touch! A digital catalog has also been created, making it easier than ever to find our products. Direct access to product information and product videos will now be available,
so be sure to ask us anything and we’ll be able to respond faster than ever. Let’s all get inspired this year!
—The Zojirushi Team
1918
Ichikawa Brothers Trading Company is established in Osaka, Japan
1961
Name is changed to Zojirushi
Corporation and the elephant is adopted as the corporate logo; ZO means elephant in Japanese,
HISTORY
ZOJIRUSHI
1923
Manufacture and sale of vacuum bottles begin; the elephant is adopted as a trademark
which symbolizes strength, 1963
intelligence and familiarity
1968
Osaka Factory is opened
1981
Stainless steel vacuum bottle manufacturing process is patented and the TUFFBOY line is introduced
1987
Zojirushi America Corporation is established in California, USA
2001
President Norio Ichikawa is appointed, and "Mimamori Hotline" project is launched to help monitor the elderly through their use of an electric "I-Pot"
2018
Zojirushi marks its 100th anniversary and is listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange
Japan's first automated vacuum bottle production equipment is developed and mass production of glass vacuum bottle liners begins
1973
Air Pot ® dispenser is launched and Zojirushi receives high acclaim for this push-type beverage dispenser
1983
Micro computerized, Micom electric rice cooker/warmer is introduced; gravity flow dispenser with a second opening on the bottom is developed
1988
The Home Bakery breadmaker is introduced
2008
The Vacuum Bottle & Air Pot® Pavilion opens at the Osaka Head Office
2021
Zojirushi continues its journey guided by its corporate philosophy “Creating a quality of life”