Oji Paper Company
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| Traded as | : Nikkei 225 Component |
| Industry | Pulp and Paper |
| Founded | (February 12, 1873) |
| Founder | Ei-ichi Shibusawa |
| Headquarters | 7-5, Ginza 4-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061, Japan |
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Key people
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Kiyotaka Shindo, (CEO and President) |
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| Revenue | (¥ 1,241 billion JPY) (FY 2012) |
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Number of employees
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 27,360 (consolidated) (as of 31 March, 2013) |
| Subsidiaries | 156 (86 in Japan and 70 overseas) |
| Website | Official website |
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Footnotes / references |
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$ 272.202 million USD (FY 2012)
Oji Holdings Corporation (王子ホールディングス株式会社 Ōji Hōrudingusu Kabushiki-kaisha?) is a Japanese manufacturer of paper products. In 2012 the company was the third largest company in the global forest, paper and packaging industry. The company's stock is listed on the and the stock is constituent of the Nikkei 225 .
Oji Paper produces paper for printing, writing, and packaging. It also manufactures containers made from paper products, chemicals used in the production of paper and paper packaging equipment.
The company has 86 production sites throughout Japan, and forestry operations in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, New Zealand and other countries worldwide.
Oji Paper Company was founded February 12, 1873 by industrialist Shibusawa Eiichi as Shoshi Kaisha (抄紙会社?). Mills were established in 1875 in the village of Ōji, at the time a suburb of Tokyo, and in 1889 in Shizuoka. In 1893 Shibusawa renamed the company Oji Paper after the location of its first mill. William Anderson went to Japan to oversee the erection of the paper mill in 1871.
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