Mizuno
Osaka sporting-goods maker since 1906. The quiet one: no super-shoe marketing arms race, a durability reputation among high-mileage runners, and factories with its own name on them.
Status: Approved
- Founded
- 1906
- Website
- mizuno.com
- HQ
- Japan
- Manufacturing
- Japan,Various
- Ownership type
- Public
- Status since
- 2026-07-28
Ownership
Public (TSE Prime: 8022) with continuing founding-family leadership: President Akito Mizuno is a member of the founding family (Rihachi Mizuno, Osaka, 1906). Family does not hold majority ownership; leadership continuity is the signal, not control.
Why Approved
One of two major running brands that owns shoe factories, with an on-record commitment to manufacturing in Japan, in-house production via Mizuno Technics, and a published supplier list. Approved: the structural conditions for owning your own quality exist here and almost nowhere else in the category.
Reversibility
What would change our verdict
Closure or sale of Japanese production; Mizuno family exit from leadership; supplier-list disclosure regression.
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