Recruit (company)
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Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd. (株式会社リクルートホールディングス, Kabushikigaisha Rikurūto Hōrudingusu), also known as RGF (an acronym for Recruit Global Family) outside Japan,[3] is a human resources holding company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The company was founded by Hiromasa Ezoe (江副浩正), then an educational psychology student at the University of Tokyo, as Daigaku Shimbun Koukokusha (大学新聞広告社, University Newspaper Advertisement Company) in 1960. It was a spin-off from the Todai Shimbun (the University of Tokyo's main student newspaper).[1][4]
Company type | Public (K.K.) |
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TYO: 6098 | |
Industry | Published media |
Founded | 1960; 64 years ago (1960)[1] |
Headquarters | , |
Key people | Hisayuki Idekoba, President, CEO and Representative Board Director |
Revenue | ¥3,416.4 billion (FY 2023)[2] |
¥402.5 billion (FY 2023)[2] | |
Number of employees | 128 (holding company) 58,493 (group) (as of March 31, 2023)[2] |
Subsidiaries |
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Website | recruit-holdings |
In FY 2021, it reported sales of 2,872 billion Yen and revenue of 297 billion Yen, with 55.5% of its sales generated overseas.[5] Its flagship world-wide services include the job search engine Indeed and the employer review site Glassdoor. The company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a component of the NIkkei 225 and TOPIX Core 30 indices.[6][7] As of March 2024, the company has the 13th largest market capitalisation in the country of 11.4 trillion Yen.[8]