Company Profile and History
Company Profile
| Company name | Nitto Seimo Co., Ltd. |
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| Head office | 2-20-15-701 Shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN |
| Establishment | August 1910 |
| Fiscal year-end | April |
| Number of issued shares | 2,605,000 shares |
| Listed exchanges | Tokyo Stock Exchange, Nagoya Stock Exchange |
| Securities code | 3524 |
| Employees | 303 (consolidated: 914); as of April 2024 |
| Net sales | 16,611 million yen (consolidated: 20,899 million yen); as of the fiscal year ended April 30, 2024 |
| Board of Directors |
President and Representative Director Hiroaki Kobayashi Executive Director Shigehisa Kobayashi Director Koki Kitagata Director Yoshinori Nomura Outside Director Koichiro Oka Outside Director Shoji Suginohara Full-time Auditor Kunji Koshiba Full-time Auditor Kazuo Sugimori Outside Auditor Ryuzo Tachikawa Outside Auditor Takumi Sato |
History
| August 1910 |
Saibi Moji-Ori Co., Ltd. was established for the purpose of manufacturing and selling minnow nets. Our company got its start providing high-quality minnow seine nets to meet the needs of the dried young sardine industry. Teruaki Kobayashi, our first president, made significant refinements to the machine used to make the nets, introducing an improved minnow net with less deformed meshes. Kobayashi was awarded a patent for his design. 
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| May 1914 | Refined the conventional minnow net machine and invented an improved minnow net. |
| October 1925 | Invented the knotless netting machine. Awarded 57 patents in Japan and 15 other countries worldwide. |
| November 1936 | Succeeded in manufacturing knotless nets across the entire range of fishing net standards, to the finest twines and meshes. |
| May 1937 | Changed company name to Nippon Seimo Co., Ltd. |
| May 1939 | Listed on the Osaka Stock Exchange. |
| July 1944 | Merged with Fukuyama Seiki Co., Ltd. and changed the company name to Nippon Zoki Seimo Co., Ltd. |
| August 1945 | The factory in Fukuyama City was destroyed by fire due to the war. |
| January 1946 | Established the Takaoka Factory in Takaoka City, Toyama Prefecture for the production of knotless nets. |
| February 1946 | Finished rebuilding the Fukuyama Factory and changed the company name to Nippon Seimo Zoki Co., Ltd. |
| November 1948 | Merged with Fushinashi Gyomo Co., Ltd. and changed the company name to Nippon Seimo Co., Ltd. |
| April 1949 | Listed on the Second Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the Osaka Securities Exchange. |
| April 1963 | Merged with Toyo Somo Kogyo Co., Ltd. in Nagoya City and changed the company name to Nitto Seimo Co., Ltd. |
| June 1963 | Listed on the Second Section of the Nagoya Stock Exchange. |
| December 1963 | Spun off the machinery division of Nitto Seimo Co., Ltd. as a separate company and established subsidiary Nippon Turning Co., Ltd. |
| May 1966 | Established subsidiary Taku Seimo Co., Ltd. in Taku City, Saga Prefecture. |
| April 1968 | Constructed a new Fukuyama Factory in Ichimonji-cho, Fukuyama City, and relocated and integrated facilities from the existing Fukuyama and Nagoya factories. |
| August 1973 | Listed on the first sections of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the Osaka Securities Exchange, and the Nagoya Stock Exchange. |
| July 1980 | Constructed a branch factory in Himi City, Toyama Prefecture for assembling and repairing fishing nets and applying antifouling treatments. |
| September 1983 | Constructed the Doto Factory in Shibecha-cho, Kawakami-gun, Hokkaido for assembling and repairing fishing nets and applying antifouling treatments. |
| December 1987 | Established overseas subsidiary Redes Nitto (Chile) Ltda. in Chile, South America. |
| April 1992 | Established subsidiary Nitto Kikaku Kaihatsu Co., Ltd. in Takaoka City, Toyama Prefecture. |
| August 1998 | Spun off the net assembling and antifouling treatment divisions and established subsidiary Nitto Net Co., Ltd. in Himi City, Toyama Prefecture. |
| April 2005 | Took over the business operations of Taito Seiko Co., Ltd. of the Maruha Group. Control of its marine materials operations, including the trawl and marine products divisions, was handed to Nitto Seimo Co., Ltd. Taito Co., Ltd. (formerly Nitto Kikaku Kaihatsu Co., Ltd.) took over its industrial materials operations, including insect screen and animal damage protection nets. |
| October 2010 | Took over part of the business operations of Benny Toyama Corporation, a consolidated subsidiary of Marubeni Corporation. Control of the operations was handed to Nitto Seimo Co., Ltd. and Taku Seimo Co., Ltd. |
| July 2012 | Established overseas subsidiary Thai Nitto Seimo Global Co., Ltd. in Thailand. |
| March 2015 | Acquired shares of Yoshida Gyogyoubu Co., Ltd. |
| March 2017 | Acquired shares of CNK Inc. |
| March 2018 | Established Yunotsu Teichi Co., Ltd. |
| November 2018 | Established Yamaguchi Co., Ltd. |
| February 2019 | Acquired shares of Shoji Masakichi Shoten Co., Ltd. |