is a Japanese

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company, beginning its operation in 1880, when its founder, Ikujiro Nakabe, began a fish sale business in

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. The company is the largest of its kind in Japan, with

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and Kyokuyo Co., Ltd. as its main competitors. Group Slogan is "Bringing Delicious Delight to the World." Maruha Nichiro has subsidiaries in Japan, New Zealand, Australia, the United States, across

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and

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. It is listed on the

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and is a constituent of the

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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 is a city located in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. With a population of 265,684, it is the largest city in Yamaguchi Prefecture and the fifth-largest city in the Chūgoku region. It is located at the southwestern tip of Honshu facing the Tsush ...

Yamaguchi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Yamaguchi Prefecture has a population of 1,377,631 (1 February 2018) and has a geographic area of 6,112 km2 (2,359 sq mi). Yamaguchi Prefecture borders Shimane Prefecture t ...

* 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

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) * 1949 - Corporate headquarters moved to

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:::Taiyo professional baseball club (present-day

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) 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. * 2011 - Sold Yokohama BayStars to DeNA. * 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.

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