, is a marine products company based in Japan. It had annual revenues of US$5.1 billion in 2014.Until November 30, 2022, the company name will be . The company was established in 1911, and is a commercial

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and marine product procurement corporation. Its goal is to “Establish a global supply chain of marine products.” The company is the second-largest of its kind in Japan after Maruha Nichiro Holdings and owns Gorton's, a US frozen seafood company, among other companies. The company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is constituent of the

Nikkei 225 The Nikkei 225, or , more commonly called the ''Nikkei'' or the ''Nikkei index'' (), is a stock market index for the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). It has been calculated daily by the '' Nihon Keizai Shimbun'' (''The Nikkei'') newspaper since 1950 ...

stock index. Its main competitors are Maruha Nichiro and Kyokuyo Co., Ltd. Its former headquarters, built in Tobata ( Kita Kyushu) in 1929, is now an exhibit center. In 2005, the company divested its whaling fleet following controversy for its role in the modern global whaling industry (see ''

Whaling in Japan Japanese whaling, in terms of active hunting of whales, is estimated by the Japan Whaling Association to have begun around the 12th century. However, Japanese whaling on an industrial scale began around the 1890s when Japan started to participate ...

''). As of 2013, the company has 61 subsidiaries and 44 associated companies across Japan, Australia,

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and

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History

* 1908 – Founder Ichiro Tamura constructed Daiichi-Maru (199 gross tons), the first steel-frame trawler in Japan * 1911 – Ichiro Tamura established the Tamura Steamship Fishery Division in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, and started trawling in cooperation with Kosuke Kunishi and other people (foundation of Nippon Suisan) * 1920 – Hayatomo Fishery Research Group, the first private fishery research organization in Japan, was established * 1929 – The base of fishery moved from Shimonoseki to Tobata,

Fukuoka Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Fukuoka Prefecture has a population of 5,109,323 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,986 Square kilometre, km2 (1,925 sq mi). Fukuoka Prefecture borders S ...

* 1934 – First whaling expedition conducted in the

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* 1937 – Company name changed to Nippon Suisan * 1946 – First postwar whaling expedition conducted in the Antarctic Ocean with permission of the General Headquarters (GHQ) * 1949 – Nippon Suisan listed its shares on the

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* 1952 –

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fisheries reopened and NISSUI's mother ship-type

salmon Salmon () is the common name for several commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the family Salmonidae, which are native to tributaries of the North Atlantic (genus ''Salmo'') and North Pacific (genus '' Oncorhy ...

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fleet began fishing. * 1966 – Head office moved to the present address (Nippon Building in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo) * 1974 – Unisea founded in the U.S * 1978 – EMDEPES founded in

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, as a fishery base * 1988 – NISSUI acquired Salmones Antartica, a salmon and trout aquaculture company in Chile * 1990 – NISSUI obtained approval to make "EPA-E NISSUI," a drug substance * 1995 – involved in financing a management-buyout of

ANZCO Foods ANZCO Foods or simply ANZCO (formally ANZCO Foods Ltd and previously the Asian New Zealand Meat Company Limited) is a New Zealand meat producer fully owned by the Japanese company Itoham Foods, which in turn is part of Itoham Yonekyu Holdings. I ...

(just over 25% shareholding; minor partner to Itoham Foods), a meat producer in

* 2001 – Acquired 50% of shares of Sealord, a fishery company in New Zealand :::Acquired from

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Gorton's and Blue Water, pre-cooked frozen seafood brands for household use in North America * 2002 – Acquired 25% of shares of Alaska Ocean Seafood * 2004 – Founded NAL Peru, a procurement company specializing in fish meat and fish oil, in

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:::Founded Europacifico, a marketer of marine products, in

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* 2005 – Acquired King & Prince Seafood, a U.S. company of pre-cooked frozen seafood for business use * 2006 – Acquired three marketers of marine products: Nordic Seafood in

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, F.W. Bryce in the U.S. and Nordsee in

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* 2007 – Acquired shares of Cité Marine S.A.S., a processed seafood company in

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:::DOSA was established in Chile in order to administrating, marketing, and distributing for group fishery companies in Chile * 2008 – Qingdao Nissui Food Research and Development founded :::Acquired 25% of shares of Glacier Fish Company :::Hokkaido Fine Chemicals Co., Ltd. founded * 2009 – TN Fine Chemicals Co., Ltd. founded :::Acquired Hokkaido Fine Chemicals Co from Nikkashi * 2010 – Acquired shares of Delmar :::Nordic Seafood A/S becomes consolidated subsidiary * 2011 – Opening The Nissui Pioneer Exhibition Center *2012 – The Medium-Term Management Plan 2014(MVIP) was initiated. *2013 – "Yumigahama Suisan Co.,Ltd" was established for domestic Coho Salmon farming. *2014 – Head office moved to Nishi-Shimbashi Square in Minato-ku, Tokyo. * 2015 – Nissui sells part of its shareholding in ANZCO Foods to Itoham Foods * 2018 – Nissui sells remaining part of its shareholding in ANZCO Foods to Itoham Foods * 2019 – Acquired 75% of shares of Flatfish Ltd

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