Maruha Nichiro

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Maruha Nichiro Corporation (マルハニチロ株式会社, Maruha Nichiro Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese seafood company, beginning its operation in 1880, when its founder, Ikujiro Nakabe, began a fish sale business in Osaka.[3] The company is the largest of its kind in Japan, with Nippon Suisan Kaisha and Kyokuyo Co., Ltd. as its main competitors.

Maruha Nichiro Corporation
Company typePublic KK
TYO: 1333
Industry
FoundedOsaka, Japan March 31, 1943 (1943-03-31)
Headquarters2-20 3-chome, Toyosu, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-8603, Japan
Key people
Shigeru Ito, (CEO and President)
Products
RevenueIncrease $ 8.614 billion (FY 2012) (¥ 809.789 billion) (FY 2012)
Increase $ 58 million (FY 2012) (¥ 5.448 billion) (FY 2012)
OwnerNakabe family through Daitoh Trading Co. (10.19%)
Number of employees
12,335 (consolidated) (as of December 2013)
Websitewww.maruha-nichiro.co.jp/english/
Footnotes / references
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Group Slogan is "Bringing Delicious Delight to the World."[4]

Maruha Nichiro has subsidiaries in Japan, New Zealand, Australia, the United States, across Europe, Asia and South America.[5]

History

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  • 1880 - The founder, Ikujiro Nakabe, begins purchasing fish from fishermen for sale to wholesalers at the wholesale fish market in Osaka.
  • 1904 - Operation base moved to Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture. Begins purse seine fishing with early power boats.[6]
  • 1924 - Incorporated as K.K. Hayashikane Shoten, ending the era of private operation. Fishing operations expanded to include steam trawling, danish and purse seining, and fishing with traps.[6]
  • 1929 - Enyo Whaling Co. Ltd incorporated by Nakabe for shorebased whaling.[6]
  • 1936 - Taiyo Whaling Co. Ltd incorporated by Nakabe for whaling in the Antarctic. Operated two 20,000 ton factory ships and 19 whale catchers.[6]
  • 1943 - Hayashikane Shoten, Enyo Whaling, and Taiyo Whaling consolidated into one corporation. Corporate name changed to Nishi Taiyo Gyogyo Tosei K.K.[6]
  • 1945 - Corporate name changed to Taiyo Gyogyo K.K. (Taiyo Fishery Co., Ltd.) (virtually all overseas assets and operations lost at the end of World War II)
  • 1949 - Corporate headquarters moved to Tokyo
Taiyo professional baseball club (present-day Yokohama DeNA BayStars) established
  • 1951 - Overseas operations started
  • 1960 - Operations expanded from the marine products business into feeds and livestock production
  • 1978 - New headquarters building completed in central Tokyo
  • 1993 - New trademark adopted and corporate name changed to Maruha Corporation (Maruha Kabushiki Kaisha)
  • 1996 - Acquisition of Taiyo Seafoods Co., Ltd.
  • 2002 - Sold Yokohama BayStars to Tokyo Broadcasting System
  • 2004 - Maruha Group Inc. established as a holding company
  • 2007 - Economic union of Maruha Group Inc. and Nichiro Corporation merged into Maruha Nichiro Holdings, Inc.[7]
  • 2014 - Reorganization of the company structure and adoption of the Maruha Nichiro Corporation name[8] and listing of the company's stock on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
  • 2022 - Removed from Nikkei 225[9]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Corporate Data". Archived from the original on August 7, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2014.
  2. ^ "Financial Statement 2013" (PDF). Retrieved April 4, 2014.
  3. ^ "Corporate History". Retrieved April 4, 2014.
  4. ^ "Our values: an essential part of society". Our Values | Maruha Nichiro. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
  5. ^ "Group Companies". Retrieved April 4, 2014.
  6. ^ a b c d e Krug, J.A.; Day, A.M. (September 1947). "Japan's Big Fishing Companies" (PDF). US Dept of Interior - Fish and Wildlife Service. Fishery Leaflet. 268. Washington D.C.: 17–21 – via NOAA Library.
  7. ^ "Major seafood firms Maruha, Nichiro to merge in October". TMC News. December 11, 2006. Retrieved April 4, 2014.
  8. ^ "Maruha Nichiro completes merger". undercurrent news. April 2, 2014. Retrieved April 4, 2014.
  9. ^ "Nikkei 225 to replace 3 constituent stocks". Nikkei Asia. September 5, 2022. Archived from the original on 2023-11-25. Retrieved November 25, 2023.
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