Nippon Paper Industries Explained

Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd.
Type:	Public (K.K)
Traded As:	Nikkei 225 Component
Key People:	Yoshio Haga, (CEO and President)
Num Employees:	13,052 (consolidated) (as of March 31, 2013)
Area Served:	Worldwide
Industry:	Pulp and paper
Footnotes:	^[1] ^[2]
Revenue:	$ 10.905 billion USD (FY 2012) (¥ 1,025 billion JPY) (FY 2012)
Net Income:	$ 113.319 million USD (FY 2012) (¥ 10.652 billion JPY) (FY 2012)

is a Japanese paper manufacturing company. The company's stock is listed on the Tokyo and Nagoya Stock Exchange and on the Osaka Securities Exchange. The stock is also constituent of the Nikkei 225 stock index.^[3]

As of April 2013 the company has 33 subsidiaries and 11 associate companies.

It is listed as one of the world's top 10 pulp and paper industry companies year-over-year and in 2012 it was sixth in the aforementioned list.^[4]

History

1949 - Jujo Paper Co., Ltd. is founded
1968 - Jujo Paper merges with Tohoku Pulp Co., Ltd.
1972 - Sanyo Pulp (established in 1946) merged with Kokusaku Pulp (established in 1938) into Sanyo-Kokusaku Pulp Co., Ltd.
1993 - Upon merger of Jujo Paper Co., Ltd. and Sanyo-Kokusaku Pulp Co., Ltd., the company is renamed to Nippon Paper Industries
2001 - Nippon Unipac Holding is formed by the merger of Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. and Daishowa Paper Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (established in 1938)^[5]
2003 - Both companies' paperboard divisions are merged to form Nippon Daishowa Paperboard
2004 - Nippon Unipac Holding is renamed to Nippon Paper Group, Inc.
2009 - Acquired Australian Paper for $700 million.^[6]
2013 - Nippon Paper Group, Inc. merged with Nippon Paper Industries and started operation as Nippon Paper Industries.
2016 - Nippon Paper has agreed to buy the world's third largest liquids packaging board business from U.S. timber company Weyerhaeuser.^[7]

Web site: Nippon Paper Industries Annual Report 2013 . February 5, 2019.
Web site: Nippon Paper Industries Company Summary . . March 20, 2014.
Web site: Components:Nikkei Stock Average . . March 20, 2014 . November 14, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161114003556/http://indexes.nikkei.co.jp/en/nkave/index/component?idx=nk225#05 . dead .
Web site: Global Forest, Paper & Packaging Industry Survey 2013 edition – survey of 2012 results . . February 5, 2019.
Web site: The establishment of Nippon Unipac Holdings . March 30, 2001 . March 20, 2014.
Web site: Nippon buys Maryvale mill . Ian McIlwraith . . February 17, 2009 . March 20, 2014.
News: Nippon Paper to buy Weyerhaeuser drinks carton business . . June 16, 2016 . June 17, 2016.