Sumitomo Corporation
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| Traded as | : OSE: 8053 : 8053 : 8053 TOPIX 100 Component Nikkei 225 Component |
| Industry | General trading |
| Founded | Osaka, Japan (December 24, 1919) |
| Headquarters | Harumi Island Triton Square Office Tower Y 8-11 Harumi 1-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-8610, Japan |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Kazuo Ohmori (Chairman) Kuniharu Nakamura (President and CEO) |
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Metal Construction Transportation Infrastructure Chemicals Energy Mineral resources Food Consumer Goods |
| Revenue | (¥ 3,317 billion JPY) (FY 2013) |
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| Owner | Liberty Global (3.65%) |
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Number of employees
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74,638 (consolidated as of March 31, 2014) |
| Website | Official website |
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Footnotes / references |
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$ 32.16 billion 
$ 2.16 billion USD (FY 2013)
Sumitomo Corporation (住友商事株式会社 Sumitomo Shōji Kabushiki-gaisha?) is one of the largest worldwide Sogo shosha general trading companies, and is a diversified corporation. The company was incorporated in 1919, and is a member company of the Sumitomo Group.
It is listed on four Japanese (Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and Fukuoka) and is a constituent of the TOPIX and Nikkei 225 . Today, the company is one of the top three sōgō shōsha companies in the world.
The Sumitomo Group, of which Sumitomo Corporation is a key member, dates to the 17th century establishment of a book and medicine shop in Kyoto by Masatomo Sumitomo. Sumitomo's brother-in-law Riemon Soga developed a technology to extract silver from copper, and Soga's son (who married Sumitomo's daughter) Tomomochi Sumitomo expanded this smelting business to Osaka. From this start, the Sumitomo family expanded its business into copper mining (the Besshi copper mine), followed by textiles, sugar and medicine trading.
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