Nichirei
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| legal form | Kabushiki-gaisha (joint stock company) |
| ISIN | JP3665200006 |
| founding | December 1, 1945 |
| Seat | Chūō , Tokyo , Tokyo Prefecture , Japan |
| management |
Toshiaki Murai ( Executive Director and Chairman ) Kunio Otani ( Executive Director and President ) |
| Number of employees | 14,682 March 31, 2017 |
| sales | 539.7 billion yen March 31, 2017, corresponding to approx. 4.01 billion euros |
| Branch | food industry |
| Website | www.nichirei.co.jp |
KK Nichirei ( Japanese 株式会社 ニ チ レ イ Kabushiki-gaisha Nichirei ) is a Japanese company that is one of the largest companies in this sector in the country in the food industry with a turnover of around 4 billion euros and almost 15,000 employees.
history
Originally, the company was founded on December 24, 1942 as Teikoku Suisan Tōsei KK ( 帝国 水産 統制 株式会社 , English Teikoku Marine Products Control Company ): a government-initiated association of several fishing companies, which during the Second World War made food production from the Sea should ensure. Since the state-owned company suffered severe damage during the war, it was re-established from December 1, 1945 as the privately run Nippon Reizō KK ( 日本 冷 蔵 株式会社 ). After that, the range of marine products soon expanded to include other foods such as meat and poultry to meet the needs of the population. From around 1952, due to the increasing demand for easily storable and quick-to-prepare meals, frozen products and ice cream were produced on a large scale, initially with a focus on schools and other public canteens and from 1957 also for home use. As refrigerators became available in many households in the 1960s, the proportion of food sold to private consumers increased significantly. In the 1980s, the company had bad times with the oil crisis and its own mismanagement. Therefore, the company restructured and developed a new management plan, which also included the renaming to Nichirei in 1985. From 1988 Nichirei expanded to Europe, including the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and France.
Nichirei was the first Japanese company to meet the efforts initiated by Norway since the 1980s to bring Norwegian salmon to the Japanese market by offering frozen salmon sushi for the first time in 1995 . After an initial phase of acclimatization - since locally produced salmon was not used for sushi on the Japanese market for fear of transmitting parasitic diseases - this led to a high level of acceptance among the population within a few years. Sushi topped with salmon is one of the most popular types of preparation not only in Japan, but even worldwide.
Products and Subsidiaries
Nichirei Fresh Inc. primarily manufactures frozen food and also offers solutions for storing and refrigerating food. There is also the Nichirei Logistics Group division , which specializes exclusively in logistics. The real estate business and the actual corporate management is in the Nichirei Corp. Holding Company anchored. Nichirei Biosciences Inc. is active in the field of biotechnology, where, among other things, immunological research and the development of antibodies is carried out.
There are currently around 80 subsidiaries and companies associated with Nichirei worldwide. Breeding operations exist in Thailand, the company has subcontractors in China, the USA and several European countries.