Some less than obvious monopolies in business — ZIP

How to own everything?

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Be a mysterious Japanese zip company.

Tadao Yoshida had a plan.

Yoshida had lived through World War 2, having survived the bombings of Tokyo.

He owned a small zipping company that he called YKK and he had the aim of modernizing the zip industry. He got to work…