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| Foundation |
1894 |
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| President & CEO |
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| Kowa Spinning Co., Ltd. |
Yoshihiro MIWA |
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| Kowa Co., Ltd. |
Yoshihiro MIWA |
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| Kowa Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. |
Yoshihiro MIWA |
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| Kowa Shinyaku Co., Ltd. |
Yoshihiro MIWA |
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| Capital |
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| Kowa Spinning Co., Ltd. |
3,457.5 Mil. Japanese Yen |
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| Kowa Co., Ltd. |
3,840 Mil. Japanese Yen |
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| Kowa Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. |
8,565 Mil. Japanese Yen |
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| Kowa Shinyaku Co., Ltd. |
100 Mil. Japanese Yen |
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| Employees |
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| Kowa Spinning Co., Ltd. |
244 |
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| Kowa Co., Ltd. |
2,123 |
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| Kowa Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. |
1,219 |
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| Kowa Shinyaku Co., Ltd. |
355 |
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| Four company meter |
3,941 (As of July 2009) |
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| Business Fields |
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| Manufacturing |
Pharmaceuticals, Electronic Devices, Optical Equipment, Broadcasting Devices |
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| Trading |
Textile, Apparel, Machinery, Building Materials, Chemicals, Consumer Products |
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| Offices & Factories |
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| Japan |
Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Sapporo, Sendai, Tsukuba, Takasaki, Fuji, Hamamatsu, Gamagori, Kyoto, Takamatsu, Okayama, Hiroshima, Fukuoka |
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| Overseas |
New York, Los Angeles, Durham(North Carolina), Duesseldorf, Paris, Milan, London, Wokingham (U.K.), Santiago, Beijing, Dalian, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, Davao (Philippines), Singapore, Jakarta, Bangkok |
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| Financial Highlights |
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| Kowa Co., Ltd. |
| Sales |
235,700 Mil. Japanese Yen |
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| Profit(Before Tax) |
4,600 Mil. Japanese Yen |
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| (Fiscal year ended 31.March, 2009 Kowa Co., Ltd. Group consolidated) |
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| Brief History |
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| 1894 |
Founded as a cotton-cloth wholesaler in Nagoya. |
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| 1912 |
Kowa Spinning Company, Limited is incorporated. |
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| 1919 |
Started spinning operation. |
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| 1939 |
Separated the spinning division from the trading division to establish the present Kowa Spinning Company, Limited. |
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| 1945 |
Branched out into the non-textile field to establish the present Non-Textile Division. |
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| 1946 |
Branched out into the optical equipment field to establish the present Electronics & Optics Division. |
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| 1947 |
Branched out into the pharmaceutical field to establish the present Pharmaceutical Division. |
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| 1954 |
Established Kowa Shinyaku Company, Limited. |
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| 2004 |
Kowa Shinyaku Co., Ltd. transfers their ethical drugs business operations to Kowa Co., Ltd.. |
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| 2006 |
Nikken Chemicals Co., Ltd became a wholly owned subsidiary of Kowa Co., Ltd. Kowa Co., Ltd and Nikken Chemicals Co., Ltd integrated their ethical pharmaceutical sales division. |
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| 2006 |
Established Kowa Pharmaceutical Company, Limited. |
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