Kao Corporation Company Description
Kao Corporation develops and sells hygiene living care, health 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 oleochemicals, fat and oil derivatives, surfactants, and fragrances; water-reducing admixtures for concrete, casting sand binders, plastics additives, and process chemicals for various industries; and toners/toner binders, inkjet ink colorants, ink, fine polishing agents and cleaners for hard disk, and materials and process chemicals for semiconductor.
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.
| Country | Japan |
| Founded | 1887 |
| Industry | Household & Personal Products |
| Sector | Consumer Staples |
| Employees | 32,566 |
| CEO | Yoshihiro Hasebe |
Contact Details
Address: 1-14-10 Nihonbashi Kayabacho Tokyo, 103-8210 Japan | |
| Phone | 81 3 3660 7111 |
| Website | kao.com |
Stock Details
| Ticker Symbol | KAOCF |
| Exchange | OTCMKTS |
| Stock Type | Common Stock |
| Fiscal Year | January - December |
| Reporting Currency | JPY |
| ISIN Number | JP3205800000 |
| SIC Code | 2840 |
Key Executives
| Name | Position |
|---|---|
| Yoshihiro Hasebe | President, Chief Executive Officer and Representative Director |
| Masakazu Negoro | Senior Managing Executive Officer, Head of Corporate Finance Unit and Director |
| Toru Nishiguchi | Senior Mngng Exec Ofcr, Head of Global and Asia Region of Global Consumer Care Div and Rep Director |
| Hideo Makino | Senior Vice President of Accounting and Finance and Executive Officer |
| Akiko Hasegawa | Executive Officer and Global Senior Vice President of Legal |
| Hideki Mamiya | Senior Executive Officer and Senior Vice President of Human Capital Development |
| Hiroshi Yamaguchi | Senior Executive Officer and President of Kao (singapore) Private limited |
| Satoru Tanaka | Managing Executive Officer and Senior Vice President of Global Corporate Planning |
| Hideaki Kubo | Managing Executive Officer and Senior Vice President of Global Research & Development |
| Yoshihiro Murakami | Managing Executive Officer and Senior Vice President of Global Digital Strategy |