Nippon Suisan Kaisha

History

• 1908 – Founder Ichiro Tamura constructed Daiichi-Maru, 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
• 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
• 1934 – First whaling expedition conducted in the Antarctic Ocean
• 1937 – Company name changed to Nippon Suisan
• 1946 – First postwar whaling expedition conducted in the Antarctic Ocean with permission of the General Headquarters
• 1949 – Nippon Suisan listed its shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
• 1952 – North Sea fisheries reopened and NISSUI's mother ship-type salmon and trout fleet began fishing.
• 1966 – Head office moved to the present address
• 1974 – Unisea founded in the U.S
• 1978 – EMDEPES founded in Santiago, Chile, 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, a meat producer in New Zealand
• 2001 – Acquired 50% of shares of Sealord, a fishery company in New Zealand
• 2002 – Acquired 25% of shares of Alaska Ocean Seafood
• 2004 – Founded NAL Peru, a procurement company specializing in fish meat and fish oil, in Lima, Peru
• 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 Denmark, F.W. Bryce in the U.S. and Nordsee in Brazil
• 2007 – Acquired shares of Cité Marine S.A.S., a processed seafood company in France
• 2008 – Qingdao Nissui Food Research and Development founded
• 2009 – TN Fine Chemicals Co., Ltd. founded
• 2010 – Acquired shares of Delmar
• 2011 – Opening The Nissui Pioneer Exhibition Center
• 2012 – The Medium-Term Management Plan 2014 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