Who owns ASKUL?
ASKUL is not wholly owned by any single company recorded here: LY Corporation (Japan, TSE: 4689) has held a 44.2% stake since 2015.[1]
Evidence: LY Corporation Integrated Report FY2024, 19 November 2025. Last checked .
Key facts
- Largest stakeholder
- LY Corporation (44.2% stake) reported
- Since
- Headquarters
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- Origin
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- Category
- Internet & digital › Online commerce › Online retail
- Parent ticker
- TSE: 4689
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About ASKUL
ASKUL is the office-supplies mail-order business of ASKUL Corporation, which LY Corporation describes as providing mail-order services of office supplies to businesses and, through LOHACO, to general consumers. It became a consolidated subsidiary in 2015, and the integrated report shows a 44.2% holding as of September 2025, with the company listed on the TSE under code 2678. Its BtoB lines include SOLOEL ARENA and APMRO.
Ownership timeline of ASKUL
Where ASKUL sits in LY Corporation
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
- Ikyu.com
- LINE
- Yahoo! JAPAN
- ZOZOTOWN (51.4%)
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Other brands owned by LY Corporation
LY Corporation controls 5 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
- Ikyu.com
- LINE (2011)
- Yahoo! JAPAN (1996)
- ZOZOTOWN
Other brands in online retail, and who owns them
The 31 brands in online retail on Brandtree belong to 19 owners. The largest is Wayfair, with 6.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| AllModern | Wayfair | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Época Cosméticos | Magalu | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| Rakuten 24 | Rakuten | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Amazon.com | Amazon | 🇺🇸 United States |
| eobuwie | MODIVO | 🇵🇱 Poland |
| Delio (Poland) | Żabka Group | 🇱🇺 Luxembourg |
| Freshippo | Alibaba | 🇭🇰 Hong Kong |
| Apohem | Axfood | 🇸🇪 Sweden |
About the owner: LY Corporation
LY Corporation is a publicly listed company headquartered in Japan, founded in 2023.
LY Corporation is the Tokyo-listed company, code 4689 on the TSE Prime market, formed in October 2023 by an intra-group reorganisation that brought together Yahoo Japan Corporation and LINE Corporation. It is itself controlled: its integrated report names A Holdings Corporation as its parent, held 50.0% each by SoftBank Corp. and NAVER Corporation, with A Holdings owning 62.4% of LY and general shareholders 37.6%. It runs the Yahoo! JAPAN portal and the LINE messaging app and holds stakes in PayPay, ZOZO and ASKUL.
LY Corporation: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇯🇵 ASKUL and other Japanese brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 437 brands that began in Japan. 21 of them (5%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; ASKUL is not one of them.
- ABEMA — CyberAgent 🇯🇵
- Acquire — Kadokawa 🇯🇵
- Animal Crossing — Nintendo 🇯🇵
- Dragon Quest — Square Enix 🇯🇵
- Elden Ring — Bandai Namco 🇯🇵
- Jikkyou Pawafuru Puroyakyu — Konami 🇯🇵
Frequently asked questions
Who owns ASKUL?
No single company recorded here owns ASKUL outright. LY Corporation has held a 44.2% stake since 2015.
Does LY Corporation control ASKUL?
No. A 44.2% holding does not give control, so LY Corporation shares ownership with others.
Where did ASKUL come from?
ASKUL originated in Japan.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] LY Corporation Integrated Report FY2024 — LY Corporation, Annual report, published 19 November 2025; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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