Recruit (company)

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Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd.

Headquarters at GranTokyo in Marunouchi, Chiyoda, Tokyo
Formerly	University Advertising Co., Ltd. (1960-1963) Japan Recruit Center Co., Ltd. (1963-1984) Recruit Co., Ltd. (1984-2012)
Company type	Public (K.K.)
Traded as	TYO: 6098
Industry	Published media
Founded	1960; 64 years ago (1960)[1]
Headquarters	Tokyo , Japan
Key people	Hisayuki Idekoba, President, CEO and Representative Board Director
Revenue	¥3,416.4 billion (FY 2023)[2]
Operating income	¥402.5 billion (FY 2023)[2]
Number of employees	128 (holding company) 58,493 (group) (as of March 31, 2023)[2]
Subsidiaries	Indeed Glassdoor Recruit Co., Ltd. Recruit Staffing RGF Staffing B.V.
Website	recruit-holdings.com/en/

Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd. (株式会社リクルートホールディングス, Kabushikigaisha Rikurūto Hōrudingusu), also known as RGF (an acronym for Recruit Global Family) outside Japan,^[3] is a human resources holding company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The company was founded by Hiromasa Ezoe (江副浩正), then an educational psychology student at the University of Tokyo, as Daigaku Shimbun Koukokusha (大学新聞広告社, University Newspaper Advertisement Company) in 1960. It was a spin-off from the Todai Shimbun (the University of Tokyo's main student newspaper).^[1][4]

In FY 2021, it reported sales of 2,872 billion Yen and revenue of 297 billion Yen, with 55.5% of its sales generated overseas.^[5] Its flagship world-wide services include the job search engine Indeed and the employer review site Glassdoor. The company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a component of the Nikkei 225 and TOPIX Core 30 indices.^[6][7] As of March 2024, the company has the 13th largest market capitalisation in the country of 11.4 trillion Yen.^[8]