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is a Japanese seafood company, beginning its operation in 1888, when its founder, Ikujiro Nakabe, began a fish sale business in Osaka.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Corporate History )〕 The company is the largest of its kind in Japan, with Nippon Suisan Kaisha and Kyokuyo Co., Ltd. as its main competitors. Maruha Nichiro has subsidiaries in Japan, New Zealand, Australia, the USA, across Europe, Asia and South America.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Group Companies )〕 It is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the Nikkei 225 stock index.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Components:Nikkei Stock Average )〕 ==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 * 1924 - Incorporated as K.K. Hayashikane Shoten, ending the era of private operation * 1943 - Corporate name changed to Nishi Taiyo Gyogyo Tosei K.K. * 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 Creation of Maruha Nichiro Holdings, Inc. * 2014 - Reorganization of the company structure and adoption of the Maruha Nichiro Corporation name and listing of the company's stock on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maruha Nichiro」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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