Our company was founded as a trading company in Kobe in 1912. After that,it became a corporation as Nishimoto Trading Co., Ltd. in September 1947.
SEP. 1947 |
Nishimoto Trading Co. Ltd. was established, and Tokyo Branch opened in Chiyoda ward, Tokyo. |
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JUL. 1960 |
Established Nishimoto Trading Co., Ltd. (North America) |
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MAY. 1968 |
Became general Japanese import-agency of Sunkist Growers. |
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OCT. 1998 |
Established International Produce Marketing Co., Ltd. in Koto ward, Tokyo. |
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JAN. 2000 |
Opened Nishimoto Trading Co., Ltd. Shanghai Representative Office. |
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OCT. 2000 |
Fruit and vegetable business division was spun off from Nishimoto Trading Co., Ltd. At the same time Interanational Produce Marketing Co., Ltd. changed its trade name to IPM Nishimoto Co., Ltd. |
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AUG. 2002 |
Nishimoto Trading Co., Ltd. renamed its Tokyo Branch as Tokyo headquaters as a result of relocating headquaters function from Kobe Head Office. |
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MAY. 2008 |
Reorganized Nishimoto Trading Co., Ltd. Shanghai Representative Office, and established Nishimoto Trading Group Foodstuffs Shanghai Co., Ltd. |
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MAR. 2009 |
Established IPM Co.,Ltd. |
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OCT. 2010 |
Nishimoto Trading Co., Ltd. (Old) changed its trade name to Nishimoto Co., Ltd, and at the same time, Nishimoto Trading Co., Ltd. (New) was newly established. |
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JAN. 2011 |
Established NTC Wismettac Singapore Pte.Ltd.. |
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JUL. 2011 |
Opened Nishimoto Trading Co., Ltd. Bangkok Representative Office. |
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OCT. 2012 |
Established NTC Wismettac Australia Pty Ltd.. |
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JAN. 2013 |
Opened Nishimoto Trading Co., Ltd. Paris Representative Office. (It closed on December2020) |
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APR. 2014 |
Established NTC Wismettac Europe B.V. in Amstelveen, The Netherlands |
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JAN. 2015 |
Nishimoto Trading Co., Ltd. (North America) changed its trade name to Wismettac Asian Foods, Inc. Wismettac Asian Foods, Inc. (Canada) was established as its Canadian subsidiary in British Columbia, Canada. |
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Nishimoto Trading Co., Ltd. span off frozen food business, and IPM Nishimoto Co., Ltd. took it over. At the same time, IPM Nishimoto Co., Ltd. changed its trade name to Wismettac Foods, Inc. |
OCT. 2015 |
Nishimoto Trading Co., Ltd (North America) changed its company name to Wismettac Asian Foods, Inc. |
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DEC. 2015 |
Nishimoto Trading Co., Ltd. acquired all of the outstanding shares of NTC Wismettac Europe B.V. |
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JAN. 2016 |
Nishimoto Trading Co., Ltd. acquired all of the outstanding shares of Harro Foods Ltd. , a British importer and wholesaler of Japanese foodstuff, through NTC Wismettac Europe B.V. |
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MAR. 2016 |
Nishimoto Co., Ltd. was transferred to a company with an audit and supervisory committee. |
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OCT. 2016 |
Nishimoto Trading Co., Ltd. acquired all of the outstanding shares of Nippon Foods, Co., Ltd., a Hong Kong wholesaler of Japanese foodstuff. |
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JAN. 2017 |
Nishimoto Trading Co., Ltd. acquired all of the shares of Hong Kong Nisshin Foods Co., Ltd. (Hong Kong) and made it a wholly owned subsidiary. |
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APR. 2017 |
Merger with Nippon Foods Co., Ltd. as a surviving company and Hong Kong Nisshin Foods Co., Ltd. as a dissolved company was implemented. |
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SEP. 2017 |
Nishimoto Co., Ltd. was listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. |
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MAR. 2018 |
Opened Nishimoto Trading Co., Ltd. Ho Chi Minh Representative Office. |
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AUG. 2018 |
Opened Nishimoto Trading Co., Ltd. Seoul Representative Office. |
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JAN. 2019 |
Nishimoto Trading Co.,Ltd. as a surviving company and Wismettac Foods, Inc. as a dissolved company was implemented. At the same time, Nishimoto Trading Co.,Ltd. changed its trade name to Wismettac Foods,Inc. |
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FEB. 2020 |
NTC Wismettac Europe B.V. acquired additional shares of SSP Konsumgüter TRADE & CONSULT GmbH (Germany), which was an affiliated company, and made it a wholly owned subsidiary. |
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JUL. 2020 |
NTC Wismettac Europe B.V. acquired additional shares of COMPTOIRS DES 3 CAPS SAS(France), which was an affiliated company, and made it a subsidiary. |
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FEB. 2021 |
Wismettac Harro Foods Limited acquired all of the shares of Interlock Investments Limited(United Kingdom, Scotland, Sco-Fro Group)and made it a wholly owned subsidiary. |
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JAN. 2022 |
NTC Wismettac Singapore Pte. Ltd. acquired all of the shares of Ban Choon Marketing Pte. Ltd. (Singapore) and made it a wholly owned subsidiary. |
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JAN. 2023 |
Established Wismettac EMEA Holdings Ltd. |
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OCT. 2023 |
Wismettac Harro Foods Limited acquired all of the shares of Uniontrade S.p.A. and Uni Logistic S.r.l.(Italy, UT Group)and made it a wholly owned subsidiary. |
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