Noritake
| Noritake Company, Limited
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| legal form | Kabushiki kaisha (joint stock company) |
| ISIN | JP3763000001 |
| founding | July 10, 1904 |
| Seat | Nagoya |
| management | Noboru Akahane (Chairman), Hitoshi Tanemura (President) |
| Number of employees | 5,280 (March 31, 2008) |
| sales | 15.632 million yen (March 31, 2008) |
| Branch | porcelain |
| Website | www.Noritake.co.jp |
KK Noritake Company, Limited ( Japanese 株式会社 ノ リ タ ケ カ ン パ ニ ー リ ミ テ ド , Kabushiki kaisha Noritake Kampanī Rimitedo ) is a major Japanese pottery manufacturer. The headquarters are in the central Japanese city of Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture .
history
Noritake grew out of a trading company founded in 1876 in Tokyo and New York City by the Morimura brothers. 1904 founded Morimura Ichizaemon ( 森 村 市 左衛 門 ) the Nippon Tōki Gōmei-gaisha ( 日本 陶器 合 名 会 社 , German "Japan-Porzellan OHG ") in Japan. This forerunner of today's company was founded in the village of Noritake, a small suburb near Nagoya. After various mergers, the company now comes under the umbrella of the resident of Nippon Tōki Gōmei-gaisha. Most products from the earlier period bore the Nippon stamp on the back to show the country of manufacture. Today, many collectors agree that the best pieces of hand-painted porcelain were made between 1891 and 1921.
Although customers and collectors have been calling the goods under the general name Noritake (and / or simply Nippon ) since the 1920s , the manufacturer did not officially bear this name until 1981. Since Noritake is also the name of the place, the company was registered as a trade name until then prohibited.
