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Nippon Flour Mills

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Nippn Corporation
Native name
株式会社ニップン
Kabushiki gaisha Nippun
FormerlyNippon Flour Mills Co., Ltd. (1896–2020)
Company typePublic KK
TYO: 2001
ISINJP3723000000
IndustryFood
Founded26 September 1896; 128 years ago (1896-09-26)
FounderHidejiro Naito
Kanekichi Hayashi
Headquarters,
Japan
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Hiroshi Sawada
(Chairman and CEO)

Masayuki Kondo
(President and COO)
Products
RevenueIncrease JPY 323.4 billion (FY 2017) (US$ 3.05 billion) (FY 2017)
Decrease JPY 7.6 billion (FY 2017) (US$ 72.1 million) (FY 2017)
Number of employees
3,700 (consolidated, as of March 31, 2018)
ParentMitsui Group
WebsiteOfficial website
Footnotes / references
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Nippn Corporation (株式会社ニップン, Kabushiki gaisha Nippun, formerly the Nippon Flour Mills Co., Ltd.[5])is a Japanese company which derives most of its revenue from milling flour and produces flour related products such as noodles. It was established in 1896[4] and is a member of the Mitsui keiretsu.[6]

Nippon Flour Mills (NFM) and its group companies engage in a wide range of food businesses that include flour milling, the core business of NFM; food business consisting of manufacture and sale of food ingredients, processed foods, Nakashoku (meal solutions), frozen foods; manufacture and sale of health foods, cosmetics and pet foods; and other businesses including management of sports facilities and bioscience business.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Company Profile". Nippon Flour Mills. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
  2. ^ "Company Overview". Nippon Flour Mills. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
  3. ^ a b "About the company". Financial Times. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
  4. ^ a b "Company Profile". Nikkei Asian Review. Nikkei Inc. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
  5. ^ 日本製粉株式会社, Nippon Seifun kabushiki gaisha
  6. ^ Rothacher, Albrecht (June 18, 1989). Japan's Agro-Food Sector: The Politics and Economics of Excess Protection. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 66. ISBN 978-1-349-10303-4.
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