Cookpad
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| Company type | Public KK |
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| TYO: 2193 | |
| Industry | Internet |
| Founded | Kanagawa, Japan (1997) |
| Headquarters | Tokyo, Japan |
Key people | Akimitsu Sano (Founder & CEO) |
| Revenue |  JPY 3,263 million (FY 2010)[1] |
| JPY 1,626 million (FY 2010)[1] | |
| JPY 847 million (FY 2010)[1] | |
| Total assets | JPY 4,508 million (FY 2010)[1] |
| Total equity | JPY 3,479 million (FY 2010)[1] |
| Website | English corporate website |
Cookpad Inc. (TYO: 2193) is an Internet corporation specializing in the recipe category. The company operates "Cookpad" which is Japan’s largest recipe sharing service allowing visitors to upload and search through original, user-created recipes. It went public on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in July 2009.[2] As of April 2015, Cookpad had a total of 50 million users and more than 2 million registered recipes.
History
- October 1997: Coin Ltd. established (The predecessor to COOKPAD Inc.)
- March 1998: Launched “Kitchen@coin” as a sharing service for cooking
- June 1999: Changed the service name to “COOKPAD”
- March 2002: Started advertising business
- September 2004: Launched premium service business
- September 2006: Launched the mobile service “MOBAREPI”
- November 2008: Launched MOBAREPI’s premium service
- July 2009: Listed on TSE Mothers
- March 2010: Opened an office in California, USA
- May 2011: Opened an office in Singapore
- December 2011: Listed on the First Section of the TSE
References
- ^ a b c d e "COOKPAD FY2010 earnings results" (PDF). Retrieved June 14, 2011.
- ^ Toto, Serkan (June 12, 2009). "A Recipe Site Goes IPO, In Japan (Cookpad)". Tech Crunch.
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