Profil Financier
Takao Yasuda occupe actuellement le rang #1116 du classement mondial StarFortune (secteur luxe, mode & beauté). Fortune nette estimée : $3.8 B (-$128 sur 24h).
Takao Yasuda founded discount retailer Don Quijote, now Pan Pacific International Holdings, in 1980.
The retailer has nearly 750 stores and is publicly traded. It sells a wide range of products, from Rolexes to snacks to adult toys.
He returned as a board director in 2019, after having stepped down as CEO and chairman in 2015. Yasuda's title at Pan Pacific is now founding chairman and supreme advisor.
Supermarket UNY, formerly a part of retail and convenience-store operator FamilyMart UNY, is a 100% subsidiary.
In September 2024, his 23-year-old son Yusaku was appointed to the company's board.
In 2017, the company opened up its first store in Singapore, called Don Don Donki, part of an expansion in Southeast Asia.
Yasuda's first retail venture was a discount store in Tokyo called Thieves' Market, which he opened in 1978.