Taisei Corporation

Taisei Corporation

Type	Public
Traded as	:
Industry	Construction
Founded	Tokyo, Japan (October 1, 1873 (1873-10-01))
Founder	Okura Kihachiro
Headquarters	Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Yamauchi Takashi (Representative Director, President and Chief Executive Officer)
Products	Building Construction Civil Engineering Real Estate Development
Revenue	17,558,416,000 USD
Operating income	378,586,000 USD
Net income	213,195,000 USD
Total assets	3,650,187,000 USD
Number of employees	7,945
Subsidiaries	Taiwan, Taipei U.A.E., Dubai Qatar, Doha U.S.A, California (San Jose, Costa Mesa) Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur Indonesia, Jakarta India, New Delhi Philippines, Makati Pakistan, Islamabad Vietnam, Hanoi Vietnam, HCMC Sri Lanka, Colombo Egypt, Cairo Thailand, Bangkok Turkey, Istanbul
Website	Taisei Corporation

Taisei Corporation (大成建設株式会社, Taisei Kensetsu Kabushiki-gaisha^?) (: ) is a Japanese corporation which was established in 1873. Its main areas of business are building construction, civil engineering, and real estate development. Taisei's headquarters are in Shinjuku Center Building, Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo.

Taisei has domestic offices in twelve Japanese cities, and 13 major overseas offices.

Taisei is the oldest of the 5 Japanese so called super general contractors (スーパーゼネコン, suupaa zenekon^?), the other four being Kajima Corporation, Shimizu Corporation, Takenaka Corporation and Obayashi Corporation. Taisei corporation has its roots in Okura zaibatsu (財閥^?). Following the dissolution of zaibatsu after World War II, Taisei was restructured to become an employee-owned corporation. Taisei is currently the only employee-owned Japanese large scale general contractor, the four others being owned and controlled by families.