History
Mar. 1972
Established Yano Shoten to sell household items
Dec. 1977
Incorporated as Daiso Sangyo Inc.
Nov. 1980
Established sales office in Tokyo
Oct. 1981
Established sales office in Kyushu
Jul. 1983
Increased capital to 50 million yen
Jan. 1986
Established sales office in Osaka
Jul. 1987
Moved to newly constructed office building and distribution center
Dec. 1987
Established sales office in Sapporo Prepared to launch 100 Yen Shop Daiso
Aug. 1990
Established sales office in Nagoya
Apr. 1991
Opened Takamatsu-ten, the first directly managed store
Launched full-scale development of Daiso’s 100 yen shop chain
Nov. 1994
Received the NBC (New Business Conference)
Excellent Achievement Award for new businesses
Sep. 1996
Increased capital to 496.6 million yen
Nov. 1997
Received Ministry of International Trade and Industry’s Contribution to Trade Award
Jan. 2000
Received Venture of the Year Award ’99 (Non-Public Stock Category)
Mar. 2000
Increased capital to 900 million yen
Jun. 2001
ncreased capital to 2.7 billion yen
Aug. 2001
Opened first store as start of full-scale expansion into Taiwan
Sep. 2001
Opened first store as start of full-scale expansion into South Korea
Mar. 2002
Opened IMM store (850 tsubo / 30,100 ft² / 2,800m² ) in Singapore
Received Business Community’s Management Award 2002
Jun. 2003
Opened store in Thailand
Dec. 2003
Opened store in Vancouver, Canada (700 tsubo / 24,800 ft² / 2,300 m²)
Mar. 2004
Opened store in UAE (United Arab Emirates)
Jul. 2004
Opened store in Kuwait
Dec. 2004
Opened store in Qatar
Dec. 2004
Opened store in Indonesia
May. 2005
Opened store in Bahrain
Aug. 2005
Opened store in Macao
Oct. 2005
Opened store in Seattle, USA
Dec. 2005
Opened store in New Caledonia
Dec. 2005
Opened store in Oman
Mar. 2006
Opened store in New Zealand
Dec. 2006
Opened store in San Francisco, USA
Nov. 2007
Opened store in Romania
Dec. 2007
Opened store in Mauritius
Mar. 2008
Opened store in Saudi Arabia
May. 2008
Opened store in Vietnam
Jun. 2008
Opened store in Malaysia
Dec. 2008
Opened store in Lebanon
Jan. 2009
Opened store in Jordan
Apr. 2009
Opened store in the Philippines
May. 2010
Opened store in Australia
Sep. 2011
Opened store in Mexico
Mar. 2012
Opened store in Myanmar
Jun. 2012
Opened store in China
Jun. 2012
Saitama RDC running
Jul. 2012
Osaka RDC running
Dec. 2012
Opened store in Brazil
Mar. 2013
Niigata RDC running
Jun. 2013
Kyushu RDC running
Oct. 2013
Nagoya RDC running
Oct. 2013
Hiroshima RDC running
Nov. 2013
Out of 360 brands, ranked first in the Store Strategic Survey 2013's "stores customers want to visit" and "purchasing/use ranking".
Feb. 2014
Hokkaido RDC running
Mar. 2014
Chiba RDC running
