Japan Pulp and Paper Company

Japanese company

Japan Pulp and Paper Company Limited

Native name

| 日本紙パルプ商事株式会社

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Company type| Public

Traded as

| TYO: 8032
TOPIX Component
Industry| Pulp and paper, Logistics, Real Estate
Founded| 1845; 179 years ago (1845) (as Echisan Shoten, thereafter Nakai Shoten)
Founder| Saburobe Nakai III
Headquarters| Forefront Tower, 3-12-1 Kachidoki, Chuo-ku,

Tokyo

Japan

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%)
Japan Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd. (8.1%)
Japan Pulp & Paper Business Association (3.0%)
Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (2.6%)
Nomura Asset Management Co., Ltd. (2.1%)
Hokuetsu Corp. (2.0%)
Japan Pulp & Paper Employee Stock Ownership Plan (1.9%)
Chuetsu Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd. (1.7%)

The Vanguard Group, Inc. (1.6%)
(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]

## Major activities

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* Import and export, sale, distribution and manufacturing of paper, paperboard, pulp, paper-related products[12]
* Real estate leasing; generation, sale and provision of electricity[12]

## Segments

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* Japan Wholesaling
* Non-Japan Wholesaling
* Paper Manufacturing and Processing
* Resources and Environment
* Real Estate Leasing[1]

## References

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1. ^ a b DISTRIBUTION SERVICES Japan Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd.｜NIKKEI Asia
2. ^ a b Data of Japan Pulp and Paper Company / PERSOL CAREER CO., LTD. (in Japanese)
3. ^ NEWS RELEASE DETAILS / Veritiv
4. ^ Stock price algorithm / Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. (in Japanese)
5. ^ REVENUE $6.5B as of Nov 23, 2020 Central National-Gottesman / Forbes
6. ^ a b Premier Paper acquired by Japan Pulp & Paper / Printweek
7. ^ 紙･パルプ卸売業界のランキングと概況〈The ranking and overview in the pulp and paper wholesale industry〉/ SuiK (in Japanese)
8. ^ About Us / Japan Pulp & Paper Co, Ltd
9. ^ Japan Pulp & Paper Co Ltd / Bloomberg
10. ^ 日本紙パルプ商事＜8032＞、英国の紙・包装資材卸売り会社PREMIER PAPER GROUPを子会社化 (Japan Pulp & Paper Company acquired PREMIER PAPER GROUP, 2nd in England, as subsidiary / M&A速報 (M&A Breaking News) (in Japanese)
11. ^ 日本紙パルプ商事、英国同業2位を買収 約52億円 (Japan Pulp and Paper Company acquired the company in the same industry, 2nd in England, for ¥5.2B) / NIKKEI (in Japanese)
12. ^ a b Major activities of Japan Pulp and Paper Company

Authority control databases

International|

* VIAF

National|

* Japan

Academics|

* CiNii