Nippon Paper Industries

Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.
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Type	Public KK
Traded as	TYO: 3863; Nikkei 225 Component
Industry	Pulp and paper
Founded	(August 1, 1949)
Headquarters	4-6, Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0062, Japan
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Yoshio Haga , (CEO and President)
Products	Paper; Paperboard; Household paper products; Specialty papers; Logs and lumber; Chemicals; Functional films;
Revenue	$ 10.905 billion USD (FY 2012) (¥ 1,025 billion JPY) (FY 2012)
Net income	$ 113.319 million USD (FY 2012) (¥ 10.652 billion JPY) (FY 2012)
Number of employees	13,052 (consolidated ) (as of March 31, 2013)
Website	Official website
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Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. (日本製紙グループ株式会社, Nihon Seishi Gurūpu Kabushiki-gaisha^?) is a Japanese paper manufacturing company. The company's stock is listed on the Tokyo and Nagoya Stock Exchange and on the Osaka Securities Exchange. The stock is also constituent of the Nikkei 225 stock index.^[3]

As of April 2013 the company has 33 subsidiaries and 11 associate companies.

It is listed as one of the world's top 10 pulp and paper industry companies year-over-year and in 2012 it was sixth in the aforementioned list.^[4]

History

1949 - Jujo Paper Co., Ltd. is founded
1968 - Jujo Paper merges with Tohoku Pulp Co., Ltd.
1972 - Sanyo Pulp (established in 1946) merged with Kokusaku Pulp (established in 1938) into Sanyo-Kokusaku Pulp Co., Ltd.
1993 - Upon merger of Jujo Paper Co., Ltd. and Sanyo-Kokusaku Pulp Co., Ltd., the company is renamed to Nippon Paper Industries
2001 - Nippon Unipac Holding is formed by the merger of Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. and Daishowa Paper Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (established in 1938)^[5]
2003 - Both companies' paperboard divisions are merged to form Nippon Daishowa Paperboard
2004 - Nippon Unipac Holding is renamed to Nippon Paper Group, Inc.
2009 - Acquired Australian Paper for $700 million.^[6]
2013 - Nippon Paper Group, Inc. merged with Nippon Paper Industries and started operation as Nippon Paper Industries.

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