Company profile
- Trade name
- IYOBE Co., Ltd.
- Headquarters
- 23-13 Senda Koto-ku Tokyo 135-8331
- Phone
- +81 3 3647 2734
- Fax
- +81 3 3647 8160
- URL
- www.iyobe.com
- Founding
- January 1964
- Establishment
- August 1968
- Capital
- 50,000,000 Yen
- President
- Kisaku Iobe
- Directors
- Shuichi Iobe, Senior Vice President & Representative Director
- Mitsue Iobe, Senior Vice President
- Yukio Ohtsuka, Senior Managing Director
- Kimio Sonoda, Director
- Yukio Akiba, Director
- Yasuhiro Nagai, Director
- Azuma Kawamoto, Director
- Kikue Ohashi, Auditor
- Head factory
- 23-13 Senda Koto-ku Tokyo 135-8331
- Saitama factory
- Toyonodai Techno Town Industrial Complex 2-689-1
- Toyonodai Kazo-shi Saitamaken 349-1148
- Scope of business
- Planning, manufacturing and installation of custom made furniture
- Office, home, healthcare, and public furniture Reforming
- Sales and installation of imported furniture
- Bank account
- Higashi Nippon Bank, Ltd. Mizuho Bank, Ltd.Kinshicho Branch
- Shoko Chukin Bank, Ltd. MUFG bank, Ltd. Kinshicho Branch
- Japan finance corporation Tokyo Branch Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
History
- 1958 11
- President, Kisaku Iobe upholstered the seat of a coach for Emperor's wedding ceremony
- 1964 01
- Started IYOBE at 21-6 Senda Koto-ku Tokyo and started manufacturing chairs
- 1968 08
- Established IYOBE Co., Ltd. with capital of 1.5 million Yen
- 1969 03
- Established a new factory at 23-2 Senda Koto-ku Tokyo
- 1969 12
- Increased capital to 6 million Yen
- 1971 03
- President, Kisaku Iobe visit Knoll factory at Pennsylvania, USA and learned modern upholstery technique
- 1974
- IYOBE joined furniture restoration work for the state guest house akasaka palace
- 1975 07
- Newly extablished Toyocho factory at 1-19, Shinsuna Koto-ku Tokyo
- 1979 09
- Moved the headquarters and the factory to the current address
- 1980 07
- Increased capital to 11 million Yen
- 1980 07
- Completed woodwork factory at 2-2 Umibe Koto-ku Tokyo
- 1983 07
- Completed distribution warehouse atUmibe 4-4 Koto-ku Tokyo
- 1986 05
- Started coating business
- 1988 08
- Initiated Kurihashi factory at Kurihashicho Saitama
- 1989 06
- IYOBE joined furniture restoration work for the national diet of Japan
- 1990 08
- Increased capital to 20 million Yen
- 1990 11
- Completed Saitama factory at Techno-town industrial park Kazo city, Saitama
- 1991 03
- Started business partnership between Swedish designers
- 1992 11
- Participated in International furniture exhibition
- 1993 12
- Delivered over 10,000 lobby seats to Kainsai international airport
- 1993 12
- Completed the 2nd phase of Saitama factory
- 1994 09
- Started business partnership between a German furniture manufacturer
- 1995
- Delivered hall seating to Kioi hall
- 1995 01
- Delivered hall seating to Kioi hall
- 1995 07
- Started business partnership between American designers and manufacturers
- 1996 02
- Started business partnership between Singapore and Malaysia companies
- 1996 08
- Increased Saitama factory and warehouse
- 1997 09
- Increased capital to 30 million Yen
- 1998 11
- Become ISO9001 certified company
- 1999 12
- Become ISO14001 certified company
- 2000 10
- Exhibited Lotonda at the Orgatec in Cologne Germany
- 2000 10
- Received the good design award with our brand dinning chair Innocent
- 2000 11
- President, Kisaku Iobe certified by the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare as a contemporary master craftsman for chair upholstery
- 2001 11
- President, Kisaku Iobe invited to the imperial garden party by the Imperial household Agency
- 2002 11
- Increased capital to 50 million Yen
- 2003 06
- Started environment test
- 2003 10
- Received the good design award with our brand chair REVO, RIN and ROLL
- 2005 03
- IYOBE delivered some furniture for the state guest house kyoto palace
- 2005 09
- Received design award at IPEC21
- 2005 10
- Started design license partnership with ROLF BENZ
- 2005 11
- President, Kisaku Iobe awarded a prize by the Emperor as a model of citizen to work diligently. (The award is called Oujyuhoushou)
- 2006 11
- Received the space design award at IPEC21
- 2007 01
- Purchased auto fabric cutting machine
- 2008 02
- Exhibited the Sumigoromo series at the Ambiente in Frankfurt Germany
- 2008 04
- Exhibited Sumigoromo series at Milano Salone in Milano Italy
- 2009 04
- Started design license partnership with Musterring
- 2009 04
- Exhibited SumigoromoⅡ series and C・C chair at Milano Salone in Milano Italy
- 2009 12
- Delivered hall seating to Yamaha Ginza hall
- 2010 06
- Become COC certified company FSC-C092623
- 2010 10
- Delivered arm chairs and tables to 2010 APEC conference in Yokohama Japan
- 2012 03
- Delivered restaurant chairs to Sky restaurant 634 at Sky tree tower in Tokyo
- 2012 03
- Delivered chairs and tables to the Rikkyo University
- 2012 05
- Hosted 1st in house exhibition
- 2013 07
- Started business partnership with Kusch+Co
- 2013 10
- Opened IYOBE sofa studio
- 2013 11
- Received Grand Prize for Human Resources Development award from the Tokyo metropolitan government
- 2014 07
- Hosted 2nd in house exhibition
- 2016 02
- Purchased auto leather cutting machine
- 2016 03
- Completed 5th warehouse at Saitama factory
- 2016 05
- Selected best 300 companies from Ministry of International Trade and Industry
- 2017 06
- Delivered special order chairs and sofas to TWILIGHT EXPRESS MIZUKAZE
- 2017 11
- President, Kisaku Iobe awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Silver Rays from the Emperor
- 2018 12
- Purchased 5 axis CNC machine
- 2019 03
- Purchased high frequency press machine
