Kao Corporation (FRA:KAO)
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Kao Corporation Company Description

Kao Corporation develops and sells hygiene and living care, health and beauty care, life care, cosmetics, and chemical products.

The company offers fabric, kitchen, home, and sanitary care products; facial, body, hair, and oral care, hair styling and color, salon, in-bathroom health care, and warming products; and self-selection cosmetics, as well as provides cosmetics counselling services.

It also provides oleo chemicals, such as oleo chemicals; fat and oil derivatives; surfactants; fragrances; water-reducing admixtures; casting sand binders; plastics additives; process chemicals; toners and toner binders; inkjet ink colorants and ink; fine polishing agents and cleaners; and materials and process chemicals.

The company was formerly known as Kao Soap Co., Ltd. and changed its name to Kao Corporation in 1982.

Kao Corporation was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Kao Corporation
Country Japan
Founded 1887
Industry Soap, Detergents, And Cleaning Preparations; Perfumes, Cosmetics, and Other Toilet Preparations
Employees 32,566
CEO Yoshihiro Hasebe

Contact Details

Address:
14-10, Nihonbashi Kayabacho
Tokyo, 103-8210
Japan
Phone 81 3 3660 7111
Website kao.com

Stock Details

Ticker Symbol KAO
Exchange Frankfurt Stock Exchange
Stock Type Common Stock
Fiscal Year January - December
Reporting Currency JPY
SIC Code 2840

Key Executives

Name Position
Yoshihiro Hasebe Chief Executive Officer
Hideo Makino Chief Financial Officer