Cookpad

Cookpad Inc.
Type	Public KK
Traded as	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]
Operating income	JPY 1,626 million (FY 2010)^[1]
Net income	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

1 2 3 4 5 "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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