Maruha Nichiro

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
TypePublic KK
TYO: 1333
Nikkei 225 component
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
[1][2]

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]

It is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the Nikkei 225 stock index.[6]

History
  • 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.[7]
  • 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.[7]
  • 1929 - Enyo Whaling Co. Ltd incorporated by Nakabe for shorebased whaling.[7]
  • 1936 - Taiyo Whaling Co. Ltd incorporated by Nakabe for whaling in the Antarctic. Operated two 20,000 ton factory ships and 19 whale catchers.[7]
  • 1943 - Hayashikane Shoten, Enyo Whaling, and Taiyo Whaling consolidated into one corporation. Corporate name changed to Nishi Taiyo Gyogyo Tosei K.K.[7]
  • 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.
  • 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.[8]
  • 2011 - Sold Yokohama BayStars to DeNA.[9]
  • 2014 - Reorganization of the company structure and adoption of the Maruha Nichiro Corporation name[10] and listing of the company's stock on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

See also

References
  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. "Components:Nikkei Stock Average". Nikkei Inc. Retrieved April 4, 2014.
  7. Krug, J.A.; Day, A.M. (September 1947). "Japan's Big Fishing Companies" (PDF). US Dept of Interior - Fish and Wildlife Service. Fishery Leaflet. Washington D.C. 268: 17–21 – via NOAA Library.
  8. "Major seafood firms Maruha, Nichiro to merge in October". TMC News. December 11, 2006. Retrieved April 4, 2014.
  9. "Tech in Asia - Connecting Asia's startup ecosystem". www.techinasia.com. Retrieved 2022-02-05.
  10. "Maruha Nichiro completes merger". undercurrent news. April 2, 2014. Retrieved April 4, 2014.


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