Kao Corporation (TYO:4452)
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6,812.00
+68.00 (1.01%)
Sep 2, 2025, 3:30 PM JST

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.

Kao Corporation
CountryJapan
Founded1887
IndustryHousehold & Personal Products
SectorConsumer Staples
Employees32,566
CEOYoshihiro Hasebe

Contact Details

Address:
1-14-10 Nihonbashi Kayabacho
Tokyo, 103-8210
Japan
Phone81 3 3660 7111
Websitekao.com

Stock Details

Ticker Symbol4452
ExchangeTokyo Stock Exchange
Stock TypeCommon Stock
Fiscal YearJanuary - December
Reporting CurrencyJPY
ISIN NumberJP3205800000
SIC Code2840

Key Executives

NamePosition
Yoshihiro HasebeChief Executive Officer
Hideo MakinoChief Financial Officer