American Takii
American Takii is the North American subsidiary of Japan's Takii & Co., Ltd., breeding and distributing hybrid vegetable and flower seeds through 50+ authorized distributors to commercial growers across the US, Canada, Central America, and the Caribbean.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded1982
- HeadquartersSalinas, United States
- Headcount11–50
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingHardware or Manufacturing
What American Takii does
American Takii, Inc. is the North American operating subsidiary of Japanese parent Takii & Co., Ltd., a privately held seed breeding and distribution group with origins dating to 1835. Headquartered in Salinas, California, American Takii was established in 1982 and was designated the Takii Group's worldwide distribution center in 2015 after expanding its processing, warehousing, and shipping capabilities. The company develops and distributes hybrid vegetable and flower seed varieties across two main product lines: flower seeds (bedding & pot, cut flowers, grasses/sedges/rushes) and vegetable seeds (fruit crops, leafy crops, root crops, Asian vegetables, and rootstocks), with an extensive catalog spanning cabbage, lettuce, spinach, broccoli, cauliflower, onions, melons, cucumbers, eggplant, peppers, tomatoes, squash, carrots, radishes, and turnips.
The company's core technology is conventional and advanced F1 hybrid plant breeding, supported by the Yuma, Arizona Research Station (established 2000) and the parent company's Kohsei Shiga Plant Breeding & Experiment Station in Japan (established 1968). Notable innovations include the world's first Brassica F1 Hybrids introduced in 1950 and ongoing variety development such as the Hybrid Honeydew Sweet Peridot melon (2014). American Takii also operates an extensive trial-location partnership network with universities and commercial growers across North America to evaluate and showcase varieties.
The business model is B2B seed sales through a network of over 50 authorized distributors (including Keithly-Williams Seeds, Harris Seeds, Johnny's Selected Seeds, Stokes Seeds, and Veseys Seeds) covering North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. The company serves two primary customer segments: commercial vegetable growers and commercial flower growers, with a secondary segment of seed distributors/dealers. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed. The company is privately held under Takii & Co., Ltd. with no funding rounds, M&A activity, or public equity involvement, and operates with a lean headcount of 11–50 supported by a management team including General Manager/CEO Steve Wiley, CFO Jackie Pak, and Sr. Director of Sales Greg Hardison.
American Takii firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- American Takii
- Legal name
- American Takii
- Website
- https://takii.com
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 1982
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 11–50 employees
- Short description
- American Takii is the North American subsidiary of Japan's Takii & Co., Ltd., breeding and distributing hybrid vegetable and flower seeds through 50+ authorized distributors to commercial growers across the US, Canada, Central America, and the Caribbean.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
American Takii industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Hybrid Vegetable and Flower Seeds
- NAICS
- Greenhouse, Nursery, and Floriculture Production (1114), Other Crop Farming (1119)
- SIC
- Agricultural Production-Crops (100), Wholesale-Farm Product Raw Materials (5150)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Vegetable Seeds (Open-Pollinated & Hybrid) (AFABAFAE)
- akta.pro secondary industries
- Hybrid Seed Production (AFAGAIAD), Plant Breeding & Variety Development (Conventional) (AFAGAIAF), Seed Distribution & Wholesale (Channel Sales) (AFAGAIAM)
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Where American Takii is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Salinas
- HQ country
- United States
- HQ region
- North America
Offices3 records
Markets served
American Takii business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Hardware or Manufacturing
- Cost components
- Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure
Revenue model
- Seed Sales: American Takii generates revenue through the sale of vegetable and flower seeds to commercial growers, distributors, and retailers. Products include bedding plants, cut flowers, vegetables, Asian vegetables, rootstocks, and related seed varieties sold through a network of authorized distributors.
Go-to-market motion1 record
Distribution channels1 record
Marketing channels6 records
American Takii product offering
Product offeringCore offering
American Takii breeds, develops, and produces proprietary hybrid vegetable and flower seed varieties for commercial growers and seed distributors across North America. The company sells its varieties through a network of authorized seed dealers and distributors, offering F1 hybrid cultivars of cabbage, onion, lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, carrots, radish, turnip, melons, cucumbers, eggplant, peppers, tomatoes, squash, plus rootstocks for grafting, and cut flower and bedding plant seeds.
Product overview
American Takii is a seed breeding and distribution company that develops and produces superior quality vegetable and flower varieties. The company operates as a single unified product portfolio organized into two main categories: Flower Seeds (including Bedding & Pot, Cut Flowers, and Grasses/Sedges/Rushes) and Vegetable Seeds (including Fruit Crops, Leafy Crops, Root Crops, Asian Vegetables, and Rootstocks). The vegetable seed portfolio includes extensive hybrid varieties of cabbage, lettuce, spinach, cauliflower, broccoli, onions, carrots, radish, turnips, bunching onions, cucumbers, eggplant, melons, peppers, tomatoes, and squash, as well as rootstocks for watermelon, cucumber, eggplant, tomato, and melon grafting. The company combines plant breeding science, research and development to meet customer needs, with a global presence through Takii Japan, Takii Europe, and Takii Brazil affiliates.
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Products and services
- Flower Seeds - Bedding & Pot Hybrid flower seed varieties developed for commercial bedding plant and pot crop growers; offered through authorized seed distributors across North America.
- Flower Seeds - Cut Flowers Hybrid cut flower seed varieties for commercial cut flower growers; showcased at the annual Cut Flower Open Day at Salinas and validated through U.S. university trial programs.
- Flower Seeds - Grasses, Sedges, Rushes Ornamental grass, sedge, and rush seed varieties for landscape and floral use.
- Vegetable Seeds - Fruit Crops (Cucumber, Eggplant, Melon, Pepper, Squash, Tomato) Hybrid F1 varieties of cucumber, eggplant, melon (cantaloupe, Tuscan, honeydew), pepper (Guajillo, Jalapeno), squash, and tomato for commercial fresh market and processing growers.
- Vegetable Seeds - Leafy Crops (Cabbage, Cauliflower, Chinese Cabbage, Collard, Kohlrabi, Lettuce, Spinach) Hybrid F1 varieties of cabbage (green, red, savoy, Chinese), cauliflower, collard, kohlrabi, lettuce (iceberg, red leaf), and spinach bred for commercial fresh market, processing, and storage markets with disease resistance and uniformity.
- Vegetable Seeds - Root Crops (Carrot, Edible Burdock, Onion, Radish, Turnip, Bunching Onion) Hybrid F1 varieties of carrot (Nantes/Kuroda types), edible burdock, onion (short-day, intermediate, long-day types in yellow, white, red), bunching onion, radish (daikon and specialty), and turnip for fresh market, processing, and storage.
- Vegetable Seeds - Asian Vegetables Specialty Asian vegetable seed varieties including Chinese cabbage, daikon radish, bunching onion, edible burdock, and other crops targeted at North American Asian vegetable markets.
- Vegetable Rootstocks (Tomato, Watermelon, Cucumber, Eggplant, Melon) Hybrid rootstock varieties for grafting tomato (Armada, B.B., Booster, Truster), watermelon (Just), cucumber (Just, Custodian, Marvel, Titan), eggplant (Java, Zippy), and melon (Sentinel), with multi-disease resistance packages for high-tunnel, open-field, and greenhouse production.
- Melon Honeydew F1 Sweet Peridot Hybrid honeydew melon variety bred at the Yuma, AZ Research Station; positioned as a notable Sweet Peridot honeydew launch.
Companies that use American Takii
Customer profileSegments3 records
Ideal customer profiles3 records
American Takii technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed No
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
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Feature2 records
American Takii partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
17 partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.
- Colorado State UniversityminorTrial location partner for flower trials in the West/Southwest region, participating in the university's flower trials program to evaluate and showcase Takii varieties.
- Smith GardensminorTrial location partner in the West/Southwest region for flower variety trials.
- JC Raulston ArboretumminorTrial location partner for flower trials in the Mid-Atlantic/Southeast region.
- North Carolina State University (Cut Flower)minorTrial location partner for cut flower cultivar trials in the Mid-Atlantic/Southeast region.
- Metrolina GreenhouseminorTrial location partner in the Mid-Atlantic/Southeast region.
- University of GeorgiaminorTrial location partner for both flower and vegetable trials (Vidalia onion) in the Southeast region.
- Young's Plant FarmminorTrial location partner in the Mid-Atlantic/Southeast region.
- The Gardens at BallminorTrial location partner in the East/Mid-West region.
- Ohio State Trial GardensminorTrial location partner in the East/Mid-West region.
- Penn StateminorTrial location partner (PSU Flower Trials) in the East/Mid-West region.
- University of GuelphminorTrial location partner for both flower and vegetable trials (Bradford Crops) in the North/Mid-West region.
- University of MinnesotaminorTrial location partner in the North/Mid-West region for flower research.
- University of Wisconsin-MadisonminorTrial location partner in the North/Mid-West region.
- Takii JapancoreParent company and original founding entity of Takii Seed, with headquarters in Japan. Responsible for global breeding programs and research including the Kohsei Shiga Plant Breeding & Experiment Station.
- Takii Europe BVcoreEuropean subsidiary established in 1990, serving customers throughout Europe.
- Takii de ChileminorSouth American subsidiary established in 1990, serving customers in Chile and surrounding regions.
- Takii do BrasilminorBrazilian subsidiary established in 1999, serving customers in Brazil.
Scale indicators3 records
Recent moves11 records
Expansion highlights5 records
American Takii competitors and assessment
Company assessmentDirect peers
- Johnny's Selected Seeds: Maine-based employee-owned vegetable, flower and herb seed seller/breeder selling direct to commercial growers and home gardeners; smaller breeding program but competes for the same grower customer with hybrid and OP varieties.
- PanAmerican Seed: Ball Horticultural Company's seed division; breeds and markets flower and vegetable seeds to professional growers through distributors — closely overlaps with American Takii's flower portfolio and bedding plant breeding.
- Sakata Seed America: US subsidiary of Japan's Sakata Seed Corporation, breeding and selling hybrid vegetable and flower varieties to commercial growers through distributors and direct — directly comparable in scale, strategy and Japanese-parent structure.
- Bejo Seeds: Dutch family-owned vegetable seed breeder with US operations (Bejo Seeds Inc.) developing hybrid onion, cabbage, carrot and beet varieties through similar distributor channels.
- Rijk Zwaan: Dutch vegetable seed breeder-cooperative with global subsidiaries offering protected and hybrid vegetable varieties to professional growers; competes head-to-head in greenhouse and outdoor vegetable segments.
- Enza Zaden: Dutch independent vegetable seed breeder with a global breeding program and US commercial arm serving commercial growers across the same crop segments (lettuce, tomato, cucurbits, brassicas) via vegetable seed distributors.
Broad incumbents
- Corteva Agriscience (Pioneer): Global ag-major with vegetable seed offerings through the Pioneer and new gene-edited trait pipeline; competes at the larger commercial grower tier with overlapping vegetable crops.
- Bayer Crop Science (Vegetable Seeds): Operates the former Seminis vegetable seed business under Bayer Crop Science, offering a vast hybrid vegetable portfolio to large commercial growers; far larger R&D budget than mid-tier specialty breeders.
- Syngenta Seeds (Vegetables): Global agrochemical and seed major with a sizable vegetable seed portfolio (post-2020 Syngenta Group) serving commercial growers; broader scale and trait pipeline, but overlapping in brassicas and cucurbits.
- Vilmorin-Mikado (Limagrain): Business unit of French cooperative Limagrain focused on vegetable seeds for global markets, with strong position in Asia-relevant crops that overlap directly with American Takii's vegetable portfolio.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat4 records
Key risks5 records
Key highlights6 records
Customer concentration
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American Takii leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles13 records
American Takii funding detail
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Funding rounds
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American Takii M&A and investment
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Frequently asked questions about American Takii
What does American Takii do?
American Takii breeds, develops, and produces proprietary hybrid vegetable and flower seed varieties for commercial growers and seed distributors across North America. The company sells its varieties through a network of authorized seed dealers and distributors, offering F1 hybrid cultivars of cabbage, onion, lettuce, broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, carrots, radish, turnip, melons, cucumbers, eggplant, peppers, tomatoes, squash, plus rootstocks for grafting, and cut flower and bedding plant seeds.
Is American Takii a public or private company?
American Takii is a private company. It is classified as corporate owned and is currently operating.
When was American Takii founded?
American Takii was founded in 1982. It employs 11 to 50 people.
Where is American Takii based?
American Takii is headquartered in Salinas, United States, in the North America region.
How does American Takii make money?
One revenue line is on record: seed Sales.
Who are American Takii's main competitors?
Direct peers on record are Johnny's Selected Seeds, PanAmerican Seed, Sakata Seed America, Bejo Seeds, Rijk Zwaan and Enza Zaden. Broad incumbents are Corteva Agriscience (Pioneer), Bayer Crop Science (Vegetable Seeds), Syngenta Seeds (Vegetables) and Vilmorin-Mikado (Limagrain).
Does American Takii have an API?
No public API is recorded for American Takii.
What industry is American Takii in?
American Takii's product category is Hybrid Vegetable and Flower Seeds. Its primary akta.pro industry code is AFABAFAE, Vegetable Seeds (Open-Pollinated & Hybrid), with a secondary code of AFAGAIAD, Hybrid Seed Production. Its NAICS code is 1114 and its SIC code is 100.