About Izawa Towels
Rather than striving to be the best in the world, we want to be the best for you.
The ideal towel changes depending on the person and the moment
—shaped by environment, climate, lifestyle, purpose, and preferences.
To continue delivering towels that enrich each individual's irreplaceable daily life,
we remain fully committed to uncompromising research and development.
This is the guiding philosophy of Izawa Towel.
Professor Hirokazu Kimura, Specially Appointed Professor, Faculty of Textile Science and Technology, Shinshu University
Interview
Providing comfortable towels
for everyone's daily life.
The commitment established by our founder, Masami Izawa
—"product development thoroughly from the consumer's perspective, unbound by convention"—
This stance
1970It has been faithfully passed down from its inception in [year] to the present day.
We will continue to deliver the value of comfort to everyone's daily life.
Creating towels
that suits local preferences
around the world.
Rather than simply exporting
Japanese standards to the world,
we will create towels with new value,
optimized for each specific region.
Company Profile
IZAWA TOWEL CO.,LTD.
Prioritizing the consumer's perspective, we are dedicated to the comfort of towels as everyday essentials. Our vision is to create a global standard for towels—a product that makes people think, "When in doubt, this is the towel to buy."
We are a fabless manufacturer operating in a single segment: the planning, manufacturing, and sales of towel products. Our business centers on planning and selling to retailers and character IP businesses, alongside our private brands "Towel Kenkyujyo" and "i-TOWEL."
- Mission
- Providing comfortable towels
for everyone's daily life. - Vision
- Creating towels that suit local
preferences around the world. - ただ日本のスタンダードを世界に輸出するのではなく、それぞれの地域に最適な新しい価値をもったタオルをつくっていく。
- Corporate Message
- One Towel, One Quality
- Company name
- IZAWA TOWEL CO.,LTD.
- Tokyo Head Office
- 1-26-6 Ebisu Nishi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0021, Japan
- Osaka Head Office
- 1-10-13 Karita, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka, 558-0011, Japan
- Osaka Umeda Office
- 6F Herbis Plaza, 2-5-25 Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka, 530-0001, Japan
- Establishment
- October 1970
- Capital stock
- 30 Million JPY
- Fiscal Year
- February
- President & CEO
- Shoji Izawa
- director
-
Director & COO Kazuhiro Hoten
Director & CFO Takuto Miyoshi
Director Keiko Kunimoto
Outside Director Yoshihiro Yamamoto
Outside Director Takaaki Kitamura
Outside Director (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member) Nobuyuki Yamakawa
Outside Director (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member) Sayaka Miura
Outside Director (Audit & Supervisory Committee Member) Naoki Otsubo
- Scope of Business
- Planning, manufacturing, import/export, and sales of towel products.
- Key customers
-
Nationwide specialty stores, convenience stores,
mass merchandising stores, department stores - Association
-
Japan Environment Association
Japan Containers and Packaging Recycling Association - Our Banks
- Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Mitsubishi UFJ Bank, Fukuoka Bank, Mizuho Bank, Resona Bank
- Invoice Registration Number
- T9010401160598
Izawa Towel Inc
- Company name
- Izawa Towel Inc
- Head office location
- 970 W. 190th Street, Suite 920, Torrance, California 90502, USA
- Established
- January 2025
- President & CEO
- Shoji Izawa
- Scope of Business
- Overseas market sales, production management, and trade of general towel products and other textile products
Izawa Textile Co., Limited
- Company name
- Izawa Textile Co., Limited
- Head office location
- Suite 1019, 10/F.,Chinachem Golden Plaza, 77 Mody Road, Tsimshatsui East, Kowloon, Hong Kong
- Established
- June 2016
- President & CEO
- Shoji Izawa
- Scope of Business
- Overseas market sales, production management, and trade of general towel products and other textile products
History
- 1970Oct
- Masami Izawa founded Izawa Towel in Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka
- 1981May
- Opened Tokyo office in Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo
- 1985May
- Established a wholly owned subsidiary, Intercraft Trading, in Osaka
- 1997Apr
- Shoji Izawa was appointed as representative director
- 1998Apr
- Tokyo office relocated to Minato, Tokyo
- 2005Sep
- Established in-house technology & research development department
- 2016Apr
- Started joint research with Shinshu University and opened a joint research lab on the university campus
- 2016Jun
- Established a wholly owned subsidiary, IZAWA TEXTILE CO., LIMITED, in Hong Kong.
- 2017May
- Tokyo office became the head office (two-head office system) and moved to Shibuya, Tokyo.
- 2019Jan
- "Towel Laboratory" begins selling on Amazon.co.jp in Japan
- 2019Apr
- Started joint research with Kyoto Institute of Technology
- 2020Aug
- Showroom opened at Tokyo head office
- 2020Oct
- Showroom opened at Herbis PLAZA, Osaka.
- 2021Aug
- Concluded capital alliance agreement with JAFCO Group Co., Ltd.
- 2022Mar
- Merged with Intercraft Trading in IZAWA TOWEL.
- 2022May
- Start of joint research with Fukui University
- 2025Jan
- Established a wholly owned subsidiary, IZAWA TOWEL INC., in the United States.
- 2025Jun
- Listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Standard Market
- 2025Aug
- "Towel Laboratory" now on sale on Amazon.com in the US
- 2026Jan
- "Towel Laboratory" offline sales begin
- 2026Sep
- 「i-TOWEL" is now on sale.
IZAWA INTELLIGENCE
The IZAWA INTELLIGENCE MARK is a symbolic mark that indicates the use of Izawa Towel's product development technology.
We utilize all of our towel-making know-how, from carefully selecting raw materials to delivering the finished product to our customers.
