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Umios

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Japanese seafood company

Umios Corporation (ウミオス株式会社, Umios Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese seafood company, beginning its operation in 1880, when its founder, Ikujiro Nakabe, began a fish sale business in Osaka. The company is the largest of its kind in Japan, with Nippon Suisan Kaisha and Kyokuyo Co., Ltd. as its main competitors. Group Slogan is "Bringing Delicious Delight to the World."2 Its shares trade on Tokyo Stock Exchange under the symbol 1333.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

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Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Mar 31, 1943Founded1

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  • Ticker1333 on Tokyo Stock Exchange1
  • HeadquartersTokyo1
  • Founded inŌsaka-shi1
  • Websitewww.umios.com/en
  • Legal formkabushiki gaisha1
  • LEI529900HGXVKT576NWZ273
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusLapsed (not renewed)3
  • Registered address港区高輪２丁目２１番２号, 108-8620 東京都, Japan3
  • Registered withNational Tax Agency, 20106010406973

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Umios Corporation (ウミオス株式会社, Umios Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese seafood company, beginning its operation in 1880, when its founder, Ikujiro Nakabe, began a fish sale business in Osaka. The company is the largest of its kind in Japan, with Nippon Suisan Kaisha and Kyokuyo Co., Ltd. as its main competitors.2

Corporate structure

Umios sits at the top of its group. 9 entities, 2 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Umios 東京都, Japan
    • Nagasaki Broadcasting Subsidiary · Nagasaki Prefecture
    • Umios Hokkaido Subsidiary · Nishi-ku, Japan
    • Umios Logistics Subsidiary · Chūō, Japan
    • Umios OCEAN Subsidiary · Chūō, Japan
    • Yayoi Sunfoods Subsidiary · Minato, Japan
    • ALYESKA SEAFOODS, INC. Subsidiary · Bellevue, Washington, United States
    • Daito Gyorui Subsidiary · Japan
    • WESTWARD SEAFOODS, INC. Subsidiary · Bellevue, Washington, United States

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What Umios reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

The story

1880 - The founder, Ikujiro Nakabe, begins purchasing fish from fishermen for sale to wholesalers at the wholesale fish market in Osaka.

1904 - Operation base moved to Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture. Begins purse seine fishing with early power boats.

1924 - Incorporated as K.K. Hayashikane Shoten, ending the era of private operation. Fishing operations expanded to include steam trawling, danish and purse seining, and fishing with traps.

1929 - Enyo Whaling Co. Ltd incorporated by Nakabe for shorebased whaling.

1936 - Taiyo Whaling Co. Ltd incorporated by Nakabe for whaling in the Antarctic. Operated two 20,000 ton factory ships and 19 whale catchers.

1943 - Hayashikane Shoten, Enyo Whaling, and Taiyo Whaling consolidated into one corporation. Corporate name changed to Nishi Taiyo Gyogyo Tosei K.K.

1945 - Corporate name changed to Taiyo Gyogyo K.K. (Taiyo Fishery Co., Ltd.) (virtually all overseas assets and operations lost at the end of World War II)

1949 - Corporate headquarters moved to Tokyo

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Taiyo professional baseball club (present-day Yokohama DeNA BayStars) established

1951 - Overseas operations started

1960 - Operations expanded from the marine products business into feeds and livestock production

1978 - New headquarters building completed in central Tokyo

1993 - New trademark adopted and corporate name changed to Maruha Corporation (Maruha Kabushiki Kaisha)

1996 - Acquisition of Taiyo Seafoods Co., Ltd.

2002 - Sold Yokohama BayStars to Tokyo Broadcasting System

2004 - Maruha Group Inc. established as a holding company

2007 - Economic union of Maruha Group Inc. and Nichiro Corporation merged into Maruha Nichiro Holdings, Inc.

2014 - Reorganization of the company structure and adoption of the Maruha Nichiro Corporation name and listing of the company's stock on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

2022 - Removed from Nikkei 225

2026 - Changed its name to Umios Corporation (Umios Kabushiki Kaisha)

From Wikipedia’s article on Umios, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5

Subsidiaries and ownership

Subsidiaries

Also owns

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Acquisitions

  1. Succeeded Nichiro Corporation1

Former names

  • Maruha Nichiro Corporationuntil Mar 20261

Timeline

  1. Mar 2026Renamed Name changed to Umios Corporation1
  2. Apr 2014Went public Listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange1
  3. Mar 31, 1943Founded Founded in Ōsaka-shi1

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