President’s Message Profile Strategies and Results in Platform for Sustainable Growth Value Creation Maruha Nichiro Group Business
The Maruha Nichiro Group aims to maximize its business value on a global scale based on a united strategy that clas- sifies group business into 11 units centered around our business holding company, the Maruha Nichiro Corporation. We aim to be a seafood products supplier who provides value which is both unique in the world and on the largest of global scales. At the same time, we are pushing to expand our domain as a food company which creates a large amount of delicious delight from carefully selected ingredients by leveraging the overwhelming superiority in seafood products that we have built up over our history.
Fishery & Aquaculture Trading Overseas Business Processing Logistics Other Operations
Net sales Net sales Net sales Net sales Net sales Net sales
39.2 billion yen 434.6 billion yen 166.4 billion yen 234.3 billion yen 16.5 billion yen 14.1 billion yen
Operating income Operating income Operating income Operating income Operating income Operating income
(0.3 billion yen) 2.5 billion yen 4.2 billion yen 6.9 billion yen 2.1 billion yen 1.7 billion yen
Details of major operations Details of major operations Details of major operations Details of major operations Details of major operations Details of major operations Fishery & Aquaculture Unit Marine Products Trading Unit Asia & Oceania Business Unit Consumer Frozen Foods Business Unit Logistics Unit ● Building on the strengths cultivated ● Fishery which includes long line ● Procurement, processing and sales ● Operating fishing companies in ● Providing high-value-added products ● Deploying physical logistics through our other businesses, our tuna, offshore seine fishing and of seafood products as the world’s Australia and New Zealand through the trinity of procurement, locations with facilities capable of business base, etc. to take part in overseas seine fishing leading trader and supplier ● Processing seafood and meat development and technical strength handling approximately 600 industries such as grain storage, ● Aquaculture which includes fish Marine Products Wholesaling Unit materials into frozen foods and Consumer Processed thousand tons from major trade marine transport, real estate and farming of high value-added fish ● Contribute to efficient market canned foods in places such as Foods Business Unit ports throughout Japan the production and sales of pet food species like Pacific bluefin tuna, distribution of seafood products Thailand and China and distributing ● Production and sales of long-time ● Providing services such as storage, yellowtail and greater amberjack traded on the domestic wholesale them worldwide best sellers such as canned transportation and customs market North America products and fish ham/sausage clearance for a wide array of Meat and Products Trading Unit & Europe Operations Unit Institutional Foods Business Unit products including seafood, meat, ● Procurement, processing and sales ● Procurement and processing of ● Marshal the strengths of the Group agricultural products, and low- of safe and secure meat both marine resources (Alaska pollock, (procurement, processing and temperature products such as domestically and internationally Pacific cod, etc.) in the Bering Sea development) to offer differentiated frozen foods and distributing products to products to a diverse array of markets in North America, Europe businesses and Japan Foods & Fine Chemicals Unit
*As of April 1, 2020, the Overseas Business Unit was ● Provide the medical and health renamed the Asia & Oceania Business Unit, and the sector with DHA and other “gifts North America Unit was renamed the North America & from the ocean” derived from Europe Operations Unit. 1.56% marine resources 1.82% Net Sales composition ratio 4.33% 48.02% 18.38% 25.89%
Operating income composition ratio 14.62% 24.56% 40.35% 12.28% 9.94% -1.75%
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