Research date: 25 October 2026 Target: Mizuno Corporation, its subsidiaries and relevant commercial intermediaries Scope: Enterprise technology, digital commerce, data processing, surveillance, cloud infrastructure, defence-related technology, AI and technology-sector relationships involving Israel or occupied territories.
Enterprise Technology Stack & Vendor Relationships
Enterprise product lifecycle management
Mizuno selected Centric Software’s Centric PLM platform in 2024 to support product-development modernisation; the supplier announced the selection in September 2024.1
Centric Software subsequently announced that implementation work had begun in June 2024 and that Mizuno successfully brought Centric PLM into operation in April 2025, integrating the system across product planning, development, production and supply-chain processes.2
The disclosed integration therefore extends to several significant operational functions rather than a standalone marketing or retail application.2
North American e-commerce architecture
Mizuno USA undertook a commerce-platform transformation involving BigCommerce and systems integrator Mira Commerce, with Deck Commerce for order management, Bolt for checkout, vPersonalize for customised team uniforms, OrangeLV for product configuration and AWS-hosted custom applications and microservices.3
Mira Commerce states that its custom AWS applications support additional functionality and real-time or near-real-time data exchange between legacy systems and commerce services.3
Independent industry reporting in January 2025 confirmed the implementation’s involvement of BigCommerce, Mira Commerce and AWS, and reported a 12% increase in average order value following the changes.4
BigCommerce’s January 2025 customer case study independently attributes improvements in checkout and content deployment to the new architecture and identifies Bolt as part of the implemented checkout experience.5
Mizuno USA’s published website terms also identify Bolt as the checkout provider.6
Customer engagement and analytics
SAP Engagement Cloud’s Mizuno customer case study documents the use of its platform to consolidate customer information and automate personalised marketing across digital channels.7
The case describes the use of browsing information, purchase histories, website interactions and loyalty-programme data to create customer profiles and support targeted communications.7
This establishes an operational customer-data analytics relationship with SAP, although the case does not identify the physical hosting regions used for Mizuno’s customer records.7
Microsoft enterprise systems
Japan Business Systems documents a technology-support engagement with Mizuno covering Microsoft 365 and related Microsoft technologies.8
Its customer account states that Mizuno consulted Microsoft Japan in September 2021, received an introduction to JBS and subsequently sought support extending across Microsoft 365, PowerShell and Azure-related technology.8
JBS also describes arrangements enabling manufacturing personnel to share files with external companies through Microsoft Teams while maintaining security controls.8
Regional commerce development
Kimei Global identifies Mizuno as a client for a Korean-market commerce implementation using Salesforce Commerce Cloud and AWS-related technologies.9
The project concerned locally adapted e-commerce sites and integration of the systems needed to operate those sites in the Korean market.9
Google Cloud application development
Centillion System published a Mizuno customer case on 21 January 2025 describing Google Cloud application development and technical support for an application helping customers select badminton rackets.10
The disclosed implementation concerns commercial sports-product recommendations and application development.10
Historical cloud operations
NHN Techorus documents Mizuno’s historical use of AWS for corporate website infrastructure, with AWS adoption described as beginning in 2015.11
The vendor’s case describes support for monitoring, operations documentation, service-level differentiation and cost optimisation of the AWS environment.11
A separate 2018 publication reported that the cloud-management changes reduced operating costs by approximately 30%; this relationship is marked [pre-2020], and its current contractual status is unknown.12
Israeli-origin software and procurement
No public evidence identified establishing Mizuno procurement, licensing or integration of Check Point, Wiz, CyberArk, SentinelOne, NICE, Verint, Claroty, Palo Alto Networks or other specifically identified Israeli-origin enterprise technology.
No public evidence identified that any of Mizuno’s documented systems integrators deployed Israeli-origin products as part of the engagements examined.
No public evidence identified establishing an Israeli-origin technology dependency within Mizuno’s core enterprise systems.
Surveillance, Biometrics & Retail Technology
Retail monitoring and CCTV
Mizuno USA and Mizuno Canada describe the collection of personal data through customer-facing websites, applications and other commercial interactions in their privacy policy last modified on 1 October 2025.13
The same policy expressly discloses the use of closed-circuit television in stores for safety, security, fraud prevention, loss prevention and operational purposes.13
The policy also documents the collection or processing of identifiers, geolocation information, device information, purchasing history, internet activity, payment information, customer-generated content and certain audio or visual information.13
These disclosures establish commercial monitoring and analytics activities, but do not identify a facial-recognition system, biometric identification supplier or Israeli-origin surveillance platform.13
Israeli commercial intermediary and retail application
Mizuno’s Israel-localised European contact page identifies Different Pro 2627 Ltd at 2 Dotan Street, Yavne, Israel, as a local commercial contact.14
A separately published Google Play listing identifies M.G.S. Sport Trading Ltd as the developer associated with the Mega Sport retail application and describes Mega Sport as a retail network owned by the MGS Sport Trading Group.15
The listing identifies the application as a retail shopping product and contains developer-provided information about personal-information collection and data-protection arrangements.15
The application listing does not establish that Mizuno Corporation developed, commissioned, operates or controls the Mega Sport application.15
No public evidence identified linking Mizuno-controlled customer-data systems to the Mega Sport application.
No public evidence identified establishing that either Israeli commercial contact uses Israeli-origin facial recognition, biometric identification or retail surveillance technology on Mizuno’s behalf.
Facial recognition and biometric identification
No public evidence identified establishing Mizuno’s use of Trigo, BriefCam, AnyVision/Oosto, Trax or comparable Israeli-origin biometric or retail surveillance technology.
Predictive analytics and monitoring
SAP’s case study confirms conventional customer-engagement analytics and marketing personalisation, but does not document predictive policing, military intelligence analysis or security surveillance deployment.7
No public evidence identified establishing Mizuno’s use of Israeli-origin workforce surveillance, predictive policing, sentiment surveillance or law-enforcement monitoring software.
Third-party deployments
The named commerce and enterprise vendors provide Mizuno with customer-data processing, application development and operational technology services.3, 7, 8, 9
No public evidence identified demonstrating that Israeli-origin surveillance technology is incorporated into those services for Mizuno.
Cloud Infrastructure, Data Residency & Sovereign Cloud Participation
Documented cloud infrastructure
Mizuno’s North American digital commerce environment includes AWS-hosted applications and microservices developed by Mira Commerce.3
Mizuno’s Korean-market commerce development identifies Salesforce Commerce Cloud and AWS technologies.9
Mizuno’s Google Cloud application development includes a badminton racket recommendation application described in January 2025.10
Historical documentation identifies AWS infrastructure supporting Mizuno’s corporate website and managed operational support from NHN Techorus; the AWS adoption dates to 2015 [pre-2020], while the current managed-service status is unknown.11
JBS documents Mizuno’s use of Microsoft collaboration technologies and support extending into Azure-related matters.8
Personal-data collection and processing
Mizuno USA’s October 2025 privacy policy identifies several categories of personal information, including geolocation, purchasing records, customer interactions, audio or visual information and automatically collected online activity.13
It states that personal data may be shared with group companies, payment processors, cloud storage providers, marketing partners and other contracted service providers.13
The policy also identifies circumstances in which personal information may be disclosed in response to legal processes or government investigations.13
For Canadian customer information, Mizuno expressly states that service providers may operate in the United States and that personal information may be processed there, potentially becoming accessible to US courts, law-enforcement bodies or national-security authorities.13
The privacy policy does not provide a comprehensive list of cloud storage regions or all international subprocessors.13
Israel-related data-residency assessment
No public evidence identified establishing that Mizuno operates, leases or colocates a data centre in Israel.
No public evidence identified establishing that Mizuno’s customer information is stored or processed in an Israeli cloud region.
No public evidence identified establishing that Mizuno transfers identifiable customer information to Israeli intelligence agencies or Israeli state institutions.
No public evidence identified demonstrating that Mizuno’s documented AWS, Salesforce, Google Cloud, Microsoft or SAP implementations use Israeli-controlled infrastructure for the Mizuno workload.
Government cloud contracts
No public evidence identified establishing that Mizuno is a supplier, subcontractor, integrator or other participant in Project Nimbus.
No public evidence identified establishing that Mizuno provides cloud infrastructure, AI cloud services, data storage or infrastructure-resilience technology to Israeli government agencies.
Sovereign-cloud services
No public evidence identified establishing that Mizuno markets or supplies digital-sovereignty, sovereign-cloud, government data-residency or national infrastructure-resilience products to Israel.
Defence, Intelligence & Security Sector Technology Relationships
Israeli commercial presence
Mizuno maintains an Israel-localised regional customer contact page identifying Different Pro 2627 Ltd in Yavne.14
The existence of this commercial contact establishes an Israeli market-facing relationship but does not itself identify defence-sector technology services.14
The independently documented Mega Sport application operated under the MGS Sport Trading identity concerns consumer retail activity.15
Military and intelligence contracts
No public evidence identified establishing that Mizuno Corporation, Mizuno USA, Mizuno Europe or another verified Mizuno subsidiary provides enterprise technology directly to the Israeli Ministry of Defence, Israel Defense Forces or Israeli intelligence agencies.
No public evidence identified establishing that Different Pro 2627 Ltd or MGS Sport Trading Ltd provides Mizuno-branded technology under a military or intelligence procurement contract.
No public evidence identified establishing Mizuno contracts for military communications, intelligence analytics, secure military hosting, cyber-defence operations or military software maintenance.
Dual-use technology
Mizuno’s documented digital technologies include customer engagement platforms, e-commerce applications, cloud infrastructure, collaborative enterprise systems, product-development software and sports-product recommendation applications.2, 3, 7, 8, 10
No public evidence identified demonstrating deployment of those Mizuno implementations for military intelligence, surveillance or law-enforcement operations in Israel or occupied territories.
Offensive cyber technology
No public evidence identified establishing that Mizuno develops, purchases for onward military provision, sells or maintains offensive cyber tools, exploit platforms or electronic intelligence interception systems for Israeli state actors.
Post-July 2024 activity
The Centric PLM programme began in June 2024, was publicly announced in September 2024 and went live in April 2025.1, 2
The documented timing places part of that enterprise software implementation after 19 July 2024 and November 2024, but the cited customer case does not establish any Israeli military, intelligence or settlement-related use of Centric PLM.2
No public evidence identified establishing that Mizuno continued Israeli defence-related technology provision after either date.
AI, Algorithmic & Autonomous Systems
Commercial analytics and recommendation technology
SAP’s Mizuno customer case describes automated customer engagement, marketing personalisation and analytics based on customer activity and transaction information.7
Centillion System’s January 2025 case describes the development of a Google Cloud-supported badminton racket recommendation application.10
These disclosed applications concern commercial customer engagement and sports-product selection.7, 10
AI and machine-learning provision to Israeli bodies
No public evidence identified establishing that Mizuno supplies machine-learning, computer vision, algorithmic decision-support or autonomous systems to Israeli government, military or intelligence organisations.
Training data
Mizuno USA’s privacy policy describes the collection and use of commercial customer information for marketing, analytics, research, security and service improvement.13
No public evidence identified establishing that Mizuno trains AI models using surveillance-derived civilian records, intercepted communications or population datasets originating from occupied territories.
Automated military targeting
No public evidence identified establishing that Mizuno provides autonomous targeting, target-generation, fire-control or kill-chain software to Israeli military organisations.
No public evidence identified establishing that Mizuno’s commercial analytics or sports-product technology has been integrated into Israeli military autonomous systems.
Technology Ecosystem & R&D Footprint
Product development technology
Centric Software’s April 2025 announcement documents the deployment of an integrated product lifecycle platform covering Mizuno’s design, planning, development, manufacturing and supply-chain operations.2
The announcement also describes Mizuno’s opening of an innovation centre in Osaka in 2022 to strengthen its research and development capabilities.2
Digital commerce engineering
Mira Commerce’s case study documents custom AWS applications and microservices developed for Mizuno USA, supporting commerce functionality and system-to-system integration.3
Kimei Global documents Korean-market website development using Salesforce Commerce Cloud and AWS-related technologies.9
Centillion System documents a January 2025 Google Cloud application development project related to badminton equipment selection.10
Israeli research facilities
No public evidence identified establishing that Mizuno operates an R&D centre, engineering laboratory, innovation accelerator or software development office in Israel.
Acquisitions and strategic investments
No public evidence identified establishing that Mizuno acquired an Israeli cybersecurity, surveillance, AI or military technology company.
No public evidence identified establishing Mizuno strategic investments in Israeli defence-technology startups or Israeli cybersecurity venture funds.
Patents and intellectual property
No public evidence identified establishing a significant technology-licensing, patent co-development or intellectual-property partnership between Mizuno and an Israeli-domiciled research institution.
No public evidence identified establishing a documented Mizuno technology co-development agreement with Technion, Hebrew University or Weizmann Institute.
Controlling principals and group attribution
UK Companies House records identify Mizuno Corporation as an overseas company with a UK filing history, including accounts filed in October 2025 and a July 2026 filing concerning the closure of a UK establishment.16
No public evidence identified establishing that Mizuno’s controlling shareholders or senior executives personally hold material equity interests or governance positions in the named Israeli military, intelligence, cybersecurity or surveillance companies examined.
No public evidence identified establishing a technology-procurement relationship involving Israeli defence-sector companies through Mizuno’s group entities.
Civil Society Scrutiny & Regulatory History
UN and NGO investigations
No public evidence identified in the examined material establishing a Mizuno-specific finding concerning Israeli-origin surveillance technology, Israeli military cloud infrastructure, settlement digital services or technology provision to Israeli intelligence bodies.
No verified Mizuno-specific digital-technology finding was obtained from searches concerning the OHCHR settlement-business database, UN A/HRC/59/23, Who Profits, AFSC Investigate, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Al-Haq, B’Tselem or Don’t Buy Into Occupation.
Commercial relationships requiring distinct treatment
Mizuno’s publicly listed Israeli commercial contact is Different Pro 2627 Ltd.14
A separately identifiable Israeli sporting-goods group, MGS Sport Trading, operates the Mega Sport retail application.15
Neither cited record establishes a Mizuno-specific defence-technology, government-cloud or surveillance contract.14, 15
Boycott and divestment campaigns
No public evidence identified establishing an organised campaign specifically directed at Mizuno’s provision of digital technology to Israeli military, intelligence or settlement institutions.
No public evidence identified establishing a company response to such a technology-specific campaign.
Regulatory and legal proceedings
Mizuno USA publishes consumer privacy terms identifying customer-data processing, CCTV, contracted service providers and applicable disclosure procedures.13
Mizuno USA also published a consumer-support notice in July 2026 concerning fraudulent websites impersonating the company’s American online store.17
These consumer protection and privacy disclosures do not establish Israeli defence or surveillance technology provision.13, 17
No public evidence identified establishing export-control enforcement, sanctions proceedings, regulatory investigations or litigation against Mizuno specifically concerning technology supplied to Israeli government or military entities.
Historical infrastructure references
A historical NHN Techorus AWS customer case documents conventional cloud operations for Mizuno’s corporate website, including infrastructure initially adopted in 2015 [pre-2020].11
A separate 2018 publication describes an approximately 30% reduction in operating costs following cloud-management changes [pre-2020]; the present status of that specific service contract is unknown.12
No public evidence identified connecting those historical cloud-management activities to Israeli government infrastructure.
Footnotes
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Centric Software, “Mizuno Boosts Market Agility with Centric Partnership”, September 2024. https://www.centricsoftware.com/press-releases/mizuno-boosts-market-agility-with-centric-partnership ↩ ↩2
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Centric Software, “Mizuno Goes Live with Centric PLM to Drive Digital Transformation in Product Development”, April 2025. https://www.centricsoftware.com/press-releases/mizuno-implemented-centric-plm-digital-transformation-product-development ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7
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Mira Commerce, “Mizuno USA: Growth through Modernization”, customer case study, available in 2026. https://www.miracommerce.com/case-study/mizuno/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6
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Consumer Goods Technology, “Mizuno USA Optimizes Order Management With Composable Commerce”, 3 January 2025. https://consumergoods.com/mizuno-usa-optimizes-order-management-composable-commerce ↩
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BigCommerce, “Mizuno USA Case Study”, January 2025. https://www.bigcommerce.com/case-study/mizuno-usa/ ↩
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Mizuno USA, “Terms & Conditions”, accessed October 2026. https://usa.mizuno.com/legal ↩
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SAP Engagement Cloud, “How Mizuno Automates the Customer Journey to Drive Long-Lasting Loyalty”, customer case study, accessed October 2026. https://emarsys.com/why-emarsys/success-stories/how-mizuno-automates-the-customer-journey-to-drive-long-lasting-loyalty/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8
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Japan Business Systems, Mizuno remote support implementation case study, accessed October 2026. https://www.jbs.co.jp/case/livesupport_mizuno ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6
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Kimei Global, “Mizuno’s Korea Market E-Commerce Expansion and Optimization”, customer case study, accessed October 2026. https://kimei-global.com/case-studies/mizunos-e-commerce-success-data-privacy-localization-solutions ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5
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Centillion System, Mizuno Google Cloud application development case study, 21 January 2025. https://www.centsys.jp/case-study/mizuno/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7
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NHN Techorus, Mizuno Corporation AWS managed-cloud customer case study, historical account accessed October 2026. https://nhn-techorus.com/c-chorus/case/mizuno ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4
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Business+IT, “Why Mizuno Was Able to Reduce AWS Operating Costs by 30%”, 12 November 2018. https://www.sbbit.jp/document/sp/14677 ↩ ↩2
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Mizuno USA, “Privacy Policy”, last modified 1 October 2025. https://usa.mizuno.com/privacy/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12
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Mizuno EMEA, Israel-localised “Contact Us” page, accessed October 2026. https://emea.mizuno.com/eu/en-il/contact-us.html ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5
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Google Play, “Mega Sport” Android application listing, M.G.S. Sport Trading Ltd, accessed October 2026. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?hl=en&id=co.pushapp.megasport ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6
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UK Companies House, Mizuno Corporation, company FC018291, filing history, accessed October 2026. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/FC018291/filing-history ↩
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Mizuno USA Consumer Support, “Fraudulent Websites Impersonating Mizuno”, updated 23 July 2026. https://mizunousaconsumerhelp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/53735576042515-Fraudulent-Websites-Impersonating-Mizuno ↩ ↩2