Native name | 日本紙パルプ商事株式会社 |
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Company type | Public |
TYO: 8032 TOPIX Component | |
Industry | Pulp and paper, Logistics, Real Estate |
Founded | 1845 | (as Echisan Shoten, thereafter Nakai Shoten)
Founder | Saburobe Nakai III |
Headquarters | Forefront Tower, 3-12-1 Kachidoki, Chuo-ku, , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Akihiko Watanabe (president) |
Services | related to paper, paperboard, pulp, paper-related products and real estate |
Total equity | Stock listing (Common stock): Tokyo Stock Exchange, First Section
Number of shares: 29,560,300 Common shares issued and outstanding: 15,021,551 (As of March 31, 2018) |
Owner | Oji Holdings Corp. (10.9%) Nippon Paper Industries Pension Fund (9.3%) (As of 18 December 2020[1]) |
Number of employees | Consolidated 4,298 Non-Consolidated 709 (As of June, 2020[2]) |
Subsidiaries | Radms Paper Limited Premier Paper Group Limited CORELEX Co., Ltd. Ball & Doggett Group Pty Ltd Spicers Paper (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd |
Website | https://www.kamipa.co.jp/eng/company/ |
Japan Pulp and Paper Company Limited (日本紙パルプ商事株式会社, Nihon Kami Parupu Shōji kabushiki kaisha) is a Japanese global pulp and paper trading company, first in Japan and third in the world by the amount of sales (sales in 2018 : ¥535.49B[2]) after Veritiv Corporation (net sales in 2018 : $8.7B[3]) and Central National-Gottesman (revenue in 2018 : $6.2B[4][5]).[6][7] Japan Pulp and Paper Company (JPP) distributes paper-related products and also operates real estate business.[8][9] In 2019, JPP acquired Birmingham-headquartered PREMIER PAPER GROUP (PPG) for ¥5.2B and made PPG into its affiliate with PPG's management team remaining in place and all the 480 employees being kept on following the acquisition.[10][11][6]