| March 1972 |
Established Yano Shoten to sell household items |
| December 1977 |
Incorporated as Daiso Sangyo Inc. |
| September 1980 |
Increased capital to 12 million yen |
| November 1980 |
Established Tokyo sales office |
| July 1981 |
Increased capital to 20 million yen |
| October 1981 |
Established Kyushu sales office |
| July 1983 |
Increased capital to 50 million yen |
| December 1985 |
Increased capital to 70 million yen |
| January 1986 |
Established Osaka sales office |
| July 1987 |
Moved to newly constructed office building and distribution center |
| December 1987 |
Established Sapporo sales office |
| 1987 |
Prepared to launch 100 Yen Shop Daiso |
| August 1990 |
Established Nagoya sales office |
| April 1991 |
Opened Takamatsu-ten, the first directly managed store |
| 1991 |
Launched full-scale development of Daiso's 100 yen shop chain |
| November 1994 |
Received the NBC (New Business Conference) Excellent Achievement Award for new businesses |
| March 1995 |
Increased capital to 340 million yen |
| September 1996 |
Increased capital to 496.6 million yen |
| November 1997 |
Received Ministry of International Trade and Industry’s Contribution to Trade Award |
| March 1999 |
Received JMA Marketing Incentive Award 1998 |
| January 2000 |
Received Venture of the Year Award ’99 (Non-Public Stock Category) |
| March 2000 |
Increased capital to 900 million yen |
| June 2001 |
Increased capital to 2.7 billion yen |
| August 2001 |
Opened first store as start of full-scale expansion into Taiwan |
| September 2001 |
Opened first store as start of full-scale expansion into Korea |
| 2002 |
Opened IMM store (30,100 ft2 / 2,800 m2) in Singapore
Received Business Community’s Management Award 2002 |
| June 2003 |
Opened store in Thailand |
| December 2003 |
Opened Vancouver store (24,800 ft2 / 2,300 m2) in Canada |
| March 2004 |
Opened store in U.A.E. |
| July 2004 |
Opened store in Kuwait |
| December 2004 |
Opened store in Qatar |
| December 2004 |
Opened store in Indonesia |
| May 2005 |
Opened store in Bahrain |
| August 2005 |
Opened store in Macao |
| October 2005 |
Opened store in Seattle, U.S.A. |
| December 2005 |
Opened store in New Caledonia |
| December 2005 |
Opened store in Oman |
| December 2006 |
Opened store in New Zealand |
| December 2006 |
Opened store in San Francisco, U.S.A. |
| December 2007 |
Opened store in Romania |
