Zojirushi

{{Short description|Japanese manufacturing company}}

{{Infobox company

| name = Zojirushi Corporation
象印マホービン株式会社

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| native_name_lang = ja

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| logo = Zojirushi Logo.svg

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| type = Public KK

| traded_as = {{TYO|7965}}

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| location_city = Osaka

| location_country = Japan

| area_served = Worldwide

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| products = Rice Cookers, Vacuum Flasks, Hot Water Dispensers

| revenue = JPY 84.6 billion (FY 2018) (US$ 765.9 million) (FY 2018) {{Cite web|url=https://asia.nikkei.com/Companies/Zojirushi-Corp|title=Zojirushi Corp.|website=Nikkei Asia|access-date=2019-02-18|archive-date=2019-02-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190218201959/https://asia.nikkei.com/Companies/Zojirushi-Corp|url-status=dead}}

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| num_employees = 1,198 (2013)

| homepage = [http://www.zojirushi-world.com zojirushi-world.com]

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| image = ZOJIRUSHI CORPORATION Headquarters.jpg

| image_size = 200px

| image_caption = Zojirushi headquarters in Osaka

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| foundation = {{start date and age|1918}}

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The {{Nihongo|Zojirushi Corporation|象印マホービン株式会社|Zōjirushi Mahōbin Kabushiki-gaisha}} is a Japanese multinational manufacturer and marketer of vacuum flasks, beverage dispensers, and consumer electronics including bread machines, electric kettles, hot water dispensers, electric water boilers and rice cookers. It has a branch in South Korea and subsidiary companies in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, and the United States. Zojirushi is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.{{cite book|author=Jayne E. Chang|title=Rice Cooker Creations: 40 Simple Recipes by Zojirushi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EeWI4-x9n2UC&pg=PT72|year=2007|publisher=Silverback Books|isbn=978-1-59637-230-6|pages=72–}}

The company was founded in 1918 as the Ichikawa Brothers Trading Company in Osaka and in 1948 was changed to Kyowa Manufacturing Co., Ltd. In 1961, its name was changed again from Kyowa Manufacturing Co., Ltd to the Zojirushi Corporation and its corporate logo, including an elephant (Zōjirushi means "elephant mark"), was adopted.{{Cite web| title = Zojirushi Corporation: Private Company Information| work = bloomberg.com| access-date = 2018-02-02| url = https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=5503809}}

Some Zojirushi rice cooker models include a coating of {{Nihongo|Sumiflon|スミフロン}}, a self-cleaning fluoropolymer-aluminium composite developed by Sumitomo Electric.