Overview
- Company statements confirm a phased relocation from Cypress, California, to Kennesaw, Georgia, beginning at the end of 2026 and concluding by late 2028.
- Yamaha will sell its roughly 25-acre Cypress campus and use a sale-and-leaseback to maintain operations during the move; Avison Young is marketing the property.
- About 250 California employees are expected to be affected as remaining corporate and financial services functions shift east.
- The decision extends earlier moves of major units to Georgia—marine in 1999 and motorsports in 2019—where Yamaha also employs thousands at its Newnan factory.
- Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp welcomed the consolidation, and his office said the state offered no grants or Quick Start funds to attract the headquarters.