Cookpad

Food tech company

Cookpad Inc.

Company type	Public KK
Traded as	TYO: 2193
Industry	Internet
Founded	Kanagawa, Japan (1997)^[1]
Headquarters	Tokyo, Japan
Key people	Akimitsu Sano (Founder & CEO)
Revenue	JPY 3,263 million (FY 2010)^[2]
Operating income	JPY 1,626 million (FY 2010)^[2]
Net income	JPY 847 million (FY 2010)^[2]
Total assets	JPY 4,508 million (FY 2010)^[2]
Total equity	JPY 3,479 million (FY 2010)^[2]
Website	English corporate website

Cookpad Inc. is a Japanese food tech company. The company operates "Cookpad", which is Japan’s largest recipe sharing service, with 60 million monthly unique users in Japan and 40 million monthly unique users globally, allowing visitors to upload and search through original, user-created recipes. The firm established its global headquarters in Bristol, UK, and is expanding its business into international markets with offices in the UK, Spain, Indonesia, Lebanon, Brazil, India, Taiwan, Hungary, Greece, Russia and elsewhere. As of 2021, its sites draw around 800 million page views each month.^[3] It went public on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in July 2009.^[4] As of December 2018, Cookpad had more than 5 million registered recipes.^[5]

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
June 2016: Acquired Cucumbertown^[6]
October 2017: Opened an office in Bristol, UK^[7]

References

^ Krishna, Priya (26 April 2021). "With No Frills or Celebrities, Cookpad Is a Global Go-To for Recipes". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "COOKPAD FY2010 earnings results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on May 12, 2013. Retrieved June 14, 2011.
^ Krishna, Priya (26 April 2021). "With No Frills or Celebrities, Cookpad Is a Global Go-To for Recipes". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
^ Toto, Serkan (June 12, 2009). "A Recipe Site Goes IPO, In Japan (Cookpad)". Tech Crunch.
^ "クックパッド、投稿レシピ数が世界500万品を突破！〜海外進出を加速、マレーシアが新たに加わり70カ国でサービスを展開〜". December 20, 2018.
^ Borpuzari, Pranbihanga (16 June 2015). "Japan's Cookpad acquires Cucumbertown in multi-million dollar deal". The Economic Times. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
^ Whale, Alice (12 October 2017). "International recipe sharing platform chooses Bristol as global HQ". Techspark. Retrieved 18 January 2022.