{"id":3951,"date":"2009-06-13T02:29:20","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T17:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=3951"},"modified":"2009-06-13T02:29:20","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T17:29:20","slug":"recipe-sharing-site-cookpad-goes-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/recipe-sharing-site-cookpad-goes-ipo\/","title":{"rendered":"Recipe Sharing Site Cookpad Goes IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-822\" title=\"cookpad2\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/cookpad2-400x287.png\" alt=\"cookpad2\" width=\"400\" height=\"287\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/cookpad.com\/\">Cookpad<\/a> [JP], Japan&#8217;s biggest cooking site, announced today that they will be listed to Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers section on July 17th.<br \/>\nCEO, Akimitsu Sano, started the service on 1998. Cookpad is a recipe sharing site with 558,939 registered recipes. The site has 6.8 million unique users and 351 million page views per month.<br \/>\nCookpad has 676 million yen ($6.76M) revenue, 319 million yen ($3.19M) operating profit, and 176 million yen ($1.76M) after tax profit on FY2009.<br \/>\nIts sales consists of three segments, which are cooperative-marketing, advertisement, and subscription. Revenues of these segments are 399 million yen ($3.99M), 214 million yen ($2.14M) and 62 million yen ($0.62M), respectively.<br \/>\nAkimitsu Sano holds 69.24% shares of the company, and Yoshiteru Akita, a founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/corporate.kakaku.com\/en\/\">Kakaku.com<\/a>, holds 23.02%.<br \/>\nSee Also:<br \/>\n* <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/09\/cookpad-the-number-one-recipe-site\/\">Our previous article: Cookpad The Number One Recipe Site<\/a><br \/>\n* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2009\/06\/12\/a-recipe-site-goes-ipo-in-japan-cookpad\/\">TechCrunch article: A Recipe Site Goes IPO, In Japan (Cookpad)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cookpad [JP], Japan&#8217;s biggest cooking site, announced today that they will be listed to Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers section on July 17th. CEO, Akimitsu Sano, started the service on 1998. Cookpad is a recipe sharing site with 558,939 registered recipes. The site has 6.8 million unique users and 351 million page views per month. Cookpad&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/recipe-sharing-site-cookpad-goes-ipo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Recipe Sharing Site Cookpad Goes IPO<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,17,24],"tags":[755,1741,1907,2440],"class_list":["post-3951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-company","category-japan","category-news","tag-cookpad","tag-ipo","tag-kakakucom","tag-mothers","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}