HISTORY Daiso Memorial

Overseas Expansion

2001: First two overseas Daiso shops opened in Taiwan at the same time.
2001: The Giga Funabashi branch, the largest 100-yen shop in Japan with a sales floor area of about 5,498 m², opened in Chiba.

Daiso to the worldOperates in 26 countriesand regions
2002: The Arcakit Kinshicho branch, a large-scale store with a sales floor area of about 3,200 m², opened in Sumida Ward, Tokyo.
2003: Terrestrial digital broadcasting started.
2003: The 14,850 m² HQ distribution warehouse acquired in Higashi-Hiroshima, and the 14,850 m² dedicated Takaya warehouse was built.

The HQ distribution warehouse allowed the jump in the number of items.

The extra-large Takayawarehouse allowed thehandling of even moreitems.

Interviews with amazing people
who work energetically

The Man who Plowed a Field at the Headquarters

A Man who was Not Satisfied with Daiso

Going Outside the Framework of 100 yen

Novel Ideas Come to Him
2004: The first Daiso store in the Middle East opened in Dubai.
2006: The unprecedented privately run Daiso store opened in New Zealand.
2007: Japan Post dissolved.
March 2007: Disability Employment Initiative

About 300 employees with disabilities are currently employed at Daiso Wing, a special subsidiary of Daiso Industry. Under the motto “No proactive aid is needed,” we discuss any problems together with the 300 employees, which motivates them to work harder, and we encourage future self-reliance.

Workplace For Growth AndSelf-Reliance
2007: Factory/warehouse, which handles plastic and silicone products, started operations in Thailand

Daiso Siam, factory/warehouse in Thailand
2007: The approximately 3,300 m² Fukagawa warehouse was built in Tokyo as the East Japan logistics base, and Daiso rented the Sagamihara Nos. 3 and 4 warehouses in Kanagawa for an additional 9,900 m².

Building logistics basesin East and West Japanto cut time and cost
2008: Operation in 20 countries and regions worldwide
2009: Acknowledged as the No. 1 customer’s choice brand in Taiwan

Won the No. 1 BrandAward in Taiwan
2009: Deployment in 23 countries and regions worldwide

Daiso DNAEverybody, Let’s Devan!

To Bargain,
To Maintain

2010: Achieved the milestone of 3,000 overseas and domestic shops
2011: Great East Japan Earthquake

Building bases

2012: We built eight regional distribution centers (RDCs) starting from Saitama and Osaka in July 2012; Niigata, Kyushu, Nagoya, and Hiroshima in 2013; and then Hokkaido and Chiba in 2014.

Saitama RDC, the originof Daiso RDCs
2012: The JR Tokyo Station Marunouchi Station Building was renewed with the restoration of its original dome-shaped roof.
October 2015: Acquired Chubu Shokai, which operated about 60 shops in Shizuoka Prefecture under the name ORANGE, as a subsidiary

Outlook of Daiso2015 - 2022

Construction of an extra-large dedicated warehouse

The next turning point for the operation of Daiso Industries’ logistics was the establishment of two extra-large warehouses in 2003, just as Daiso’s overseas expansion was gaining momentum. The company purchased a 14,900 m² HQ logistics warehouse in Higashi-Hiroshima and built another 14,900 m² warehouse in Takaya. Previously, the company had leased several warehouses in the 1,500 to 3,000 m² range throughout Japan, but the Takaya warehouse was the first warehouse built by the company and was about 4.5 times larger than the Fukuyama warehouse, which once was seen as huge. Such a large-scale warehouse was very rare at the time. With these two warehouses, the Daiso Industries’ full-scale logistics operations began.
The dramatic increase in the number of products handled at each warehouse was considered revolutionary. The HQ logistics warehouse and the Takaya warehouse could handle about 4,000 items simultaneously compared to about 500 items in the existing warehouses. This made ordering from the store much more convenient.
In those days, stores had to place orders for the required items to different warehouses because each warehouse handled a different product category: the Shitami warehouse handled cosmetics and warehouse No. 1 handled stationery. In an era without search systems, it was impossible to place an order even if the shelves were empty without knowing which warehouse had which products. For this reason, new employees at that time were required to learn the names of the warehouses and the products they handled during their initial training. The HQ logistics warehouse and the Takaya warehouse drastically advanced the modernization of logistics at Daiso Industries. The HQ logistics warehouse was put to rest after a decade of operation. The Takaya warehouse is still in operation as of 2022, although the purpose of its use has changed.