How? THAT means the code on your zipper
Three little letters that are pushed back and forth every day on millions of garments: YKK. What exactly is behind this letter combination? A safety notice? A supplement to the washing and care information? Or the quality level of the zipper metal?
No, the answer is much more banal: "YKK" simply stands for the manufacturer, the Japanese "YKK Corporation".
Trouser slips firmly under control worldwide
And how is it that these letters can be found on practically all zippers? This is simply because the YKK Corporation dominates the market so much that there are virtually no other zipper manufacturers. Or, as the YKK website puts it, "If something closes, fixes, or holds together, we're probably in on it."
Also the German "STOCKO" -Werk in Wuppertal belongs since 1994 to the YKK group. In other countries, the brand is so present that even commercials for the zippers run:
In this country, this brand awareness has fortunately not enforced - would be really too exhausting, now with each purchase of clothes still have to make sure that the right brand zipper sits on it, with which one can specify later ...
How powerful the YKK zippers are, can also be seen from the fact that the group in 2007 had to pay around 150 million euros penalty for illegal price fixing. A sum that the group could easily pull out of the bag - to then probably close it with a rich ZZZZZt again.
