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Home > Company Index > Food, Beverage & Tobacco > Beverages - Distillers > Takara Shuzo Co., Ltd.

Takara Shuzo Co., Ltd.
 PROFILE
Karaoke singers can find courage in Takara Shuzo Co.'s bottles. The company is a leading distiller of "shochu", a traditional Japanese liquor. It also produces sake, "mirin" (a sweet cooking wine), "happoshu" (a low-malt beverage), and low-alcohol and nonalcoholic beverages, including fruit-based and vitamin-fortified drinks. Its Biomedical Group conducts gene research and is a leading Japanese supplier of reagents for DNA research. Takara Shuzo also makes health drinks with a seaweed derivative that it claims kills cancer cells in laboratory tests. Japan's retracting economy and an increase in sin taxes have negatively affected Takara Shuzo's alcoholic beverage sales, but its biotech-related sales are on the rise.

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 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
Fiscal Year-End: March
2000 Sales (mil.): 1,822.80
1-Yr. Sales Growth: 17.2%
Employees: 2,044
Revenue per employee: $891,780.82

 KEY PEOPLE
• Hisashi Omiya
    CEO

 CONTACT INFO
Karasuma-Higashiiru, Shijodori, Shimogyo-ku
Kyoto 600-8688, Japan
Phone: 81-75-241-5110
Fax: 81-75-241-5127
Online: Web Site

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