[Company analysis] Maruha Nichiro Corporation(マルハニチロ株式会社)

「Maruha Nichiro Corporation」who is a leading Japanese fishery company. It can be said to be a rival of「Nippon suisan kaisha (日本水産株式会社)」. This company was formed by the merger of「Maruha」and「Nichiro」. Since the management integration, it has maintained No. 1 sales fisheries company in Japan. The number of consolidated employees is approximately 11,237.

 

1. Company Profile

2. Summary and Features

3. Major Business

4. Financial Information

 

 

 

1. Company Profile

 

※Unit is JPY million, as of 2019

Company name	Maruha Nichiro Holdings, Inc.
Company name (Japanese)	マルハニチロ
Date of establishment	Wednesday, March 31, 1943
Headquarters location	〒135-8608 東京都江東区豊洲三丁目2番20号
Capital	20,000
Consolidated sales	922,468
Consolidated operating profit	21,758
Consolidated total assets	520,318
Consolidated capital	150,379
Capital adequacy ratio	28.9%
Consolidated number of employees	11,237

 

 

 

2. Summary and Features

 
「Maruha Nichiro Co., Ltd.」 was established by two companies.「Maruha」, a pelagic fishery, whaling, and marine products processor founded in 1880, and「Nichiro」, a large northern fishery and marine products company established in 1906. The business integration was conducted 2008.

「Maruha Nichiro」 is a general food company that has a trading and manufacturing division and operates in a wide range of fields. As a trading company, they specializes in the marine and livestock sector, and purchases, processes and sells high quality marine and livestock products from all over the world.

In the field of fisheries, this company are engaged in fisheries and aquaculture in Japan and overseas, as well as overseas procurement and processing of marine products, and it is said that their handling volume of marine products is the largest in the world. 「Maruha Nichiro Foods.」who is a subsidiary company of 「Maruha Nichiro Co., Ltd.」is in charge of  the processed foods business and they manufacture, process and sell frozen foods, retort foods, processed foods, and canned foods. This operation is mainly 

In fact, speaking of name recognition alone, 「Maruha Nichiro」 is very famous for their firsheries business in Japan domestic. But in reality, this company can cover the entire temperature range-such as a refrigeration, and freezing, regardless of category- of food and normaly they have been engaged B2B business for restaurants, hotels...etc. So the entire lineup of 「Maruha Nichiro」is consisted of more than 1,000 types of products.

 

 

3. Major Business

 

 ■ Fishery Business
It is the core business of「Maruha Nichiro」. They have maintained the global procurement network. The scale of this business is sometimed said to be the world's largest.

■ Food Business
They focus not only on various types of processed foods, but also on the dessert and health food fields that use collagen derived from marine products. 「Maruha Nichiro」has many food products which has a high market share in Japan.

■ Livestock business
「Maruha Nichiro」can handle livestock business and they provide processed meat products such as beef, pork and chicken.

 

 

4. Financial information

 

※Unit is JPY million

		2016	2017	2018
Consolidated sales		873,295	918,820	922,468
Consolidated operating profit		26,308	24,497	21,758
Consolidated total assets		501,303	516,843	520,318
Consolidated net assets		122,820	140,049	150,379
Breakdown of sales	Fishery Business	36,171	38,332	35,469
	Trading Business	452,157	449,484	445,094
	Oversea Business	146,230	169,413	175,884
	Livestock business	210,656	232,597	235,490
	Logistics business	15,511	15,969	16,348
	Others	12,567	13,022	14,179