Kintetsu Group Holdings Co., Ltd. | |
Native Name: | 近鉄グループホールディングス株式会社 |
Native Name Lang: | ja |
Romanized Name: | Kintetsu gurūpu hōrudeingusu kabushiki gaisha |
Former Name: | Kintetsu Corporation |
Type: | Public KK |
Traded As: | |
Industry: | Ground Transport |
Genre: | Passenger Transportation |
Successors: | --> |
Founded: | in Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan |
Founder: |
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Hq Location: | 6-1-55, Uehonmachi, Tennoji-ku |
Hq Location City: | Osaka |
Hq Location Country: | Japan |
Num Locations: | 4 offices |
Services: | Administration of Kintetsu Group |
Owners: | --> |
Num Employees: | 29,048 [1] |
Num Employees Year: | FY2015 |
,[2] referred to as,[3] is a Japanese railway holding company which primarily owns the Kintetsu Railway as well as Kintetsu World Express, Kintetsu Department Store, and its other 141 corporations, which are collectively known as Kintetsu Group.
Its subsidiaries operates tourism, real estate, and shipping companies, and has a major rail car-building operation Kinki Sharyo which produces trains used in Japan, the United States, Egypt and Hong Kong.
, a passenger rail transit company in Kinki and Tokai regions, was founded after Kansai Express Railways merged with Nankai Railways on June 1, 1944. Kinki Nippon Railways changed its legal name in English to Kintetsu Corporation on June 28, 2003. On April 1, 2015, the corporation, was restructured into a holding company, splitting its railway, real estate, logistics and retail, and recreation service divisions. Kintetsu Corporation also changed the legal name to Kintetsu Group Holdings Co., Ltd. on the same day.[4]