| About: | Nichirei Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages in the processed food, marine products, meat and poultry products, temperature-controlled logistics, real estate, and biosciences businesses in Japan and internationally. It operates through Processed Foods, Marine, Meat and Poultry, Logistics, and Real Estate segments. The company engages in the production, processing, and sale of frozen cooked food, agricultural processed food, retort-pouch food, and wellness food products, as well as acerola and packed ice. It also processes and sells marine products, such as clams, capelin, flatfish, salmon, herring, squids, cod, crabs, pollocks, scallops, mackerels, carpet shell, Pacific ocean perch, prawns, shrimps, oysters, and trout. In addition, the company is involved in the processing and sale of meat and poultry products, as well as breeding and sale of chicken. Further, it engages in the provision of distribution, transportation, refrigerated warehousing, storage, cross-docking, and delivery services; construction work and planning services; engineering services, including logistics facility planning, design, and maintenance management services; logistics consulting; distribution center functions; and production and sales of ice. In additionally, it leases office buildings and parking lots; and provides real estate management services. It also develops and produces bioscience products comprising molecular diagnostics, biomedical materials, and immunochromatographic diagnostic reagents and devices, contributing to peoples' physical and mental health. The company was formerly known as Nippon Reizo Co. Ltd. and changed its name to Nichirei Corporation in February 1985. Nichirei Corporation was incorporated in 1942 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. |