YO! Company
Encyclopedia
YO! Company is a British
holding company wholly owned by entrepreneur
Simon Woodroffe
. The most prominent company in the YO! group is the YO! Sushi
chain.
The YO! Company has several subsidiary companies and brands including:
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
holding company wholly owned by entrepreneur
Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...
Simon Woodroffe
Simon Woodroffe
Simon Woodroffe OBE is a British motivational speaker and entrepreneur. He started the sushi chain YO! Sushi in 1997, and has appeared as a 'Dragon' on the first UK series of Dragons' Den....
. The most prominent company in the YO! group is the YO! Sushi
Yo! Sushi
YO! Sushi is a British restaurant chain which was started in 1997 and is owned by Quilvest and the YO! Sushi Senior Management team. YO! Sushi specialises in delivering sushi to customers using the Japanese style 'kaiten' conveyor belt method...
chain.
The YO! Company has several subsidiary companies and brands including:
- YO! Sushi - a chain of sushi restaurants
- YOtelYOtelYotel is a YO! Company hotel brand with hotels at airports founded by Simon Woodroffe and Gerard Greene. Its rooms are larger than those in capsule hotels but are very small relative to traditional hotel rooms. Room sizes are Premium , Twin and Standard...
- a chain of JapaneseJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
style capsule hotelCapsule hotelA is a type of hotel with a large number of extremely small "rooms" intended to provide cheap and basic overnight accommodation for guests not requiring the services offered by more conventional hotels...
s at airports - YO! japan - A Japanese inspired clothing brand
- RadiYO! - a series of radio shows about business
- YO! Zone - spa and health club
- YO! Home - modern style city centre apartments