Takara Belmont
A Japanese manufacturer of professional equipment and cosmetics serving hairdressing, beauty, dental, and medical businesses.
Last updated September 25, 2026
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Overview
Takara Belmont is a Japanese company serving professionals in beauty and healthcare. The company traces its origins to a foundry established in 1921 and describes its work as supporting professionals in the pursuit of beauty and health. Its activities span professional equipment for barbershops, hairdressing and beauty salons, nail salons, esthetic clinics, medical clinics, and dental practices, as well as cosmetics for salons. The company’s equipment business includes barber and salon chairs, shampoo equipment and hair-processing devices, alongside dental and medical equipment such as dental units, chairs, examination tables, operating tables, and screening tables. Its business also includes cosmetics: it entered hair cosmetics through a partnership with Wella, later established its own Lebel cosmetics brand, and expanded into esthetic and nail-related products and services. Takara Belmont has developed an international presence through overseas companies and offices. Its history page lists entities or offices in North America, Europe, South America, and Asia, and records a Middle East branch office opened in Dubai in 2024. In Japan, the company’s businesses and group companies include manufacturing, after-sales service, cosmetics, and related operations. The company marked its centenary in 2021 and participated in Expo 2025 in Japan. Its current website presents four principal business areas: hairdressing, cosmetics, dental, and medical.
History
Takara Belmont’s official history begins in 1921, when the company started as a foundry. In 1931 it entered the barbering and hairdressing business, initially making chairs modeled on products from the American Koken company. The company later broadened this line to include barber and salon chairs, shampoo equipment, and hair-processing devices. International expansion began in the 1950s. The company established Takara Company N.Y. Inc. in New York in 1956, now identified on its history page as Takara Belmont USA, Inc., and Belmont Chairs London Ltd. in 1959, now Takara Belmont (U.K.) Ltd. It began selling cast-iron enamel bathtubs in 1963, entering residential equipment, and partnered with German company Wella in 1966 to enter hair cosmetics. In 1967 it entered dental and medical fields, manufacturing equipment including dental units and chairs as well as examination, operating, and screening tables. In 1969 it acquired American chair manufacturer Koken. The company continued to broaden its beauty-related work. It entered esthetics in 1973, introduced equipment-based esthetic treatment in Japan, and opened an esthetics academy the following year. Its history records the launch of its own Lebel cosmetics brand in 1977 and the start of basic skincare product sales in 1982. It entered nail services in 1997, opening Takara International Nail College and beginning sales of nail cosmetics the next year. Further overseas entities and partnerships followed. The company established or participated in operations in Brazil, Singapore, Italy, Taiwan, South Korea, China, Vietnam, and other markets, with dates and corporate names detailed in its official chronology. The history records a Vietnamese company acquisition in 2018 and an Italian subsidiary in 2019. Takara Belmont marked 100 years since its founding in 2021. More recently, it opened a Middle East branch office in Dubai in 2024 and participated in Expo 2025 in Japan. Its current corporate presentation identifies hairdressing, cosmetics, dental, and medical as its principal business areas.
- 2025
Participated in Expo 2025 Japan
- 2024
Opened a Middle East branch in Dubai
- 2021
Marked its 100th anniversary
- 2019
Established an Italian company
- 2018
Acquired a Vietnamese company
- 1997
Entered the nail field
- 1977
Launched the Lebel cosmetics brand
- 1973
Entered esthetics
- 1969
Acquired Koken
- 1967
Entered dental and medical equipment
Products and positioning
A professional B2B equipment and cosmetics supplier focused on supporting beauty and healthcare practitioners, with business spanning salon, dental, and medical settings.
Professional salon equipment
Barber and salon chairs, shampoo equipment, and hair-processing devices.
Dental equipment
Dental units and chairs.
Medical equipment
Examination, operating, and screening tables.
Salon cosmetics
Cosmetics for salons, including the Lebel brand and nail cosmetics.
Brand decisions
- Expanded from foundry work into professional beauty and healthcareOther
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