| 1948 | Apr | Masatomi Osako established ZENRIN Publishing in Beppu, Oita Prefecture |
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| 1954 | Mar | Moved head office to Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture |
| 1983 | Jul | Changed corporate name to ZENRIN CO., LTD. |
| 1994 | Sep | Listed on the Fukuoka Stock Exchange |
| 1995 | Nov | Opened European representative office in Germany |
| 1996 | Jul | Opened U.S. representative office in San Francisco Opened Applied GPS Research Center with Nanjing University in China |
| 1996 | Sep | Listed on the second section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the Osaka Securities Exchange |
| 1997 | Apr | Established ZENRIN Europe B.V. in the Netherlands |
| 1999 | May | Opened ZENRIN Europe B.V. Paris Branch |
| 2000 | Apr | Established ZENRIN USA, Inc. in San Francisco Established ZENRIN DataCom Co., Ltd. |
| 2001 | May | Established Nanjing Nanda - ZENRIN Information Technology Co., Ltd. in China |
| 2001 | Aug | Established Geo Technical Laboratory Co., Ltd. |
| 2001 | Nov | Obtained QS9000/ISO9001 certification for in-car navigation systems |
| 2003 | Dec | Changed Nanjing Nanda - ZENRIN Information Technology Co., Ltd. to form Nanjing Map Data techno Co., Ltd. |
| 2006 | Mar | Listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange |
| 2007 | Oct | Developed Guidable City Model(GCM) for the North American and European markets. |
| 2009 | Mar | ZENRIN formulated and released its long-term management initiative, the ZENRIN GROWTH PLAN 2013. |
| 2009 | Apr | ZENRIN DataCom Co., Ltd. (consolidated subsidiary) converted ZENRIN PROMO Co., Ltd. (consolidated subsidiary), a new kind of sales promotion company, into a subsidiary. |
| 2009 | Jul | ZENRIN DataCom Co.,Ltd. (consolidated subsidiary) converted Knockin'on, Inc. (consolidated subsidiary), which operates advertising agencies focusing on the Internet, into a subsidiary. |
