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[–] 25 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

It's a common abbreviation. YKK owns the majority of the zipper market.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YKK

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago

    IIRC, they even had their own custom-made office computers, running their own internally developed operating system and software, during the 80s. Not sure if that was standard practice for Japanese zaibatsu at the time or just a YKK idiosyncrasy.

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