The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.

Is Yokohama Rubber publicly traded?

Yes. The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. trades on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market under ticker 5101.

Where is Yokohama Rubber headquartered?

The head office is in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, at the site of the Hiratsuka Factory. The company relocated there from Tokyo in 2016.

What brands does Yokohama Rubber own?

Its brands include the flagship Yokohama tire brand with the ADVAN, GEOLANDAR, BluEarth, and iceGUARD families, plus Trelleborg, Mitas, Cultor, and Aichi Tire, and the former Goodyear off-the-road tire business acquired in 2025.

What was Yokohama Rubber's revenue in fiscal 2025?

Sales revenue was JPY 1,235.0 billion for the year ended December 31, 2025, up 12.8 percent, with business profit of JPY 166.6 billion and profit attributable to owners of the parent of JPY 105.4 billion.

When was Yokohama Rubber founded?

The company was established on October 13, 1917, in Yokohama as a joint venture between Yokohama Electric Cable Manufacturing and B.F. Goodrich of the United States.

Did Yokohama Rubber buy Goodyear's OTR business?

Yes. The acquisition of Goodyear's off-the-road tire business closed in February 2025 for approximately $905 million, adding mining and construction tires to the off-highway segment.

Yokohama Rubber was established on October 13, 1917, in Yokohama as a joint venture between Yokohama Electric Cable Manufacturing, a predecessor of today's Furukawa Electric, and the B.F. Goodrich Company of Akron, Ohio. Goodrich supplied tire technology and the new venture produced Japan's first domestically made corded tires, giving the young company an engineering foundation most local rivals lacked.

Through the 1920s and 1930s the company expanded into industrial rubber products including belts and hoses. It opened its Hiratsuka factory in Kanagawa Prefecture and survived the wartime period producing for the military economy, then rebuilt alongside Japan's postwar automotive industry. The Hama corded tire and later radial lines carried it through the 1960s and 1970s as Japanese car production surged.

International manufacturing began in earnest with a US plant in Salem, Virginia, and later a second US passenger tire plant in West Point, Mississippi. The company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange under ticker 5101, and over the following decades added plants across Thailand, the Philippines, China, India, Vietnam, and Indonesia.

The ADVAN performance nameplate, introduced in the late 1970s, became the brand's global calling card, supported by motorsport programs in touring car racing and endurance events. GEOLANDAR followed as the SUV line when that segment expanded through the 1990s and 2000s.

In 2016 the company moved its head office from Tokyo's Minato ward to its Hiratsuka factory site, consolidating corporate and technical functions in Kanagawa. The medium term plan branded Yokohama Transformation 2026, or YX2026, launched under chairman Masataka Yamaishi, reframed the company around high value consumer tires and an expanded off-highway business.

The transformation executed quickly. In 2023 Yokohama Rubber completed its acquisition of Trelleborg Wheel Systems for approximately EUR 2.1 billion, gaining the Trelleborg, Mitas, Cultor, and Maximo brands plus plants across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In February 2025 it closed the acquisition of Goodyear's off-the-road tire business for about $905 million, adding large mining and construction tires. It had earlier bought India's Alliance Tire Group in 2016 and the Aichi Tire industrial tire business.

Fiscal 2025, ended December 31, produced a fifth consecutive year of record results: sales revenue of JPY 1,235.0 billion, up 12.8 percent; business profit of JPY 166.6 billion; operating profit of JPY 152.9 billion; and profit attributable to owners of the parent of JPY 105.4 billion. Management guided toward another record in fiscal 2026, targeting JPY 1,300.0 billion in sales.

Yokohama Rubber publishes an annual sustainability report and operates an environmental management framework covering its global plants. Its medium term commitments include increasing the ratio of renewable and recycled materials in tires, expanding sustainable natural rubber sourcing through participation in the Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber, and reducing Scope 1 and 2 emissions in line with its stated carbon neutrality target for 2050.

The company markets eco oriented product lines, most notably the BluEarth family, which it positions around lower rolling resistance, and it has raced a concept tire containing a high share of sustainable materials in motorsport. CDP climate disclosures are filed annually.

Independent verification is thinner than the commitments: the company is not a certified B Corp, holds no comparable third party sustainability certification at the group level, and its natural rubber supply chain draws the same NGO scrutiny applied across the tire industry.

Yokohama Rubber has faced no major product safety scandal on the scale of the industry's historic recalls. Its notable compliance matter was participation in the global marine hose price fixing cartel; the US Department of Justice charged the company in 2008, and it paid a criminal fine of $26 million, one of several Japanese suppliers penalized in the case.

Routine product recalls have occurred at subsidiary level in line with industry norms, and the company has been subject to standard trade proceedings, including US antidumping reviews affecting truck and passenger tires from its Asian plants.