Nippon Paper Industries
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Company type | Public (K.K) |
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TYO: 3863 Nikkei 225 Component | |
Industry | Pulp and paper |
Founded | August 1, 1949 |
Headquarters | 4-6, Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101–0062, Japan |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Yoshio Haga, (CEO and President) |
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Number of employees | 13,052 (consolidated ) (as of March 31, 2013) |
Website | Official website |
Footnotes / references [1][2] |
Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. (
As of April 2013 the company has 33 subsidiaries and 11 associate companies.
It is listed as one of the world's top 10 pulp and paper industry companies year-over-year and in 2012 it was sixth in the aforementioned list.[4]
History
[edit]- 1949 - Jujo Paper Co., Ltd. is founded
- 1968 - Jujo Paper merges with Tohoku Pulp Co., Ltd.
- 1972 - Sanyo Pulp (established in 1946) merged with Kokusaku Pulp (established in 1938) into Sanyo-Kokusaku Pulp Co., Ltd.
- 1993 - Upon merger of Jujo Paper Co., Ltd. and Sanyo-Kokusaku Pulp Co., Ltd., the company is renamed to Nippon Paper Industries
- 2001 - Nippon Unipac Holding is formed by the merger of Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. and Daishowa Paper Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (established in 1938)[5]
- 2003 - Both companies' paperboard divisions are merged to form Nippon Daishowa Paperboard
- 2004 - Nippon Unipac Holding is renamed to Nippon Paper Group, Inc.
- 2009 - Acquired Australian Paper for $700 million.[6]
- 2013 - Nippon Paper Group, Inc. merged with Nippon Paper Industries and started operation as Nippon Paper Industries.
- 2016 - Nippon Paper has agreed to buy the world's third largest liquids packaging board business from U.S. timber company Weyerhaeuser.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Nippon Paper Industries Annual Report 2013" (PDF). Retrieved February 5, 2019.
- ^ "Nippon Paper Industries Company Summary". Google Finance. Retrieved March 20, 2014.
- ^ "Components:Nikkei Stock Average". Nikkei Inc. Archived from the original on November 14, 2016. Retrieved March 20, 2014.
- ^ "Global Forest, Paper & Packaging Industry Survey 2013 edition – survey of 2012 results" (PDF). PricewaterhouseCoopers. Retrieved February 5, 2019.
- ^ "The establishment of Nippon Unipac Holdings" (PDF). March 30, 2001. Retrieved March 20, 2014.
- ^ Ian McIlwraith (February 17, 2009). "Nippon buys Maryvale mill". The Age. Retrieved March 20, 2014.
- ^ "Nippon Paper to buy Weyerhaeuser drinks carton business". The Japan Times. June 16, 2016. Retrieved June 17, 2016.
External links
[edit]- Official website (in English)
- Nippon Paper Industries Annual Report 2017 (in English)
Categories:
- Nippon Paper Industries
- Pulp and paper companies of Japan
- Manufacturing companies established in 1949
- Companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
- Companies listed on the Osaka Exchange
- Companies listed on the Nagoya Stock Exchange
- Companies in the Nikkei 225
- Japanese brands
- Mitsui
- 1949 establishments in Japan
- Japanese company stubs