Blue Zones Holdings

Food supermarkets · Grocery retail · Kawagoe, Saitama

Blue Zones Holdings, set up in October 2025 and based in Kawagoe, Saitama, manages a group of food supermarket companies and related businesses. Its largest company, Yaoko, had 202 supermarkets centered on Saitama Prefecture as of March 31, 2026. Sendo runs 25 supermarkets and drugstores in Chiba, and Bunkado runs 18 supermarkets mainly in Tokyo's 23 wards, Kawasaki and Yokohama.

Ave, with 14 stores centered on Kanagawa, and Foocot, with 5 stores centered on Saitama, run low-cost discount formats for bulk shoppers. Ogawa Trading imports and wholesales food, drinks, alcohol and ingredients, and other group companies handle store security, facility management and insurance agency work. The group had 24,165 employees, counting part-timers on an eight-hour basis, as of March 31, 2026.