Daiwa House

{{Short description|Japanese homebuilder}}

{{Expand Japanese}}

{{Infobox company

| name = Daiwa House Industry Co, Ltd.
大和ハウス工業株式会社

| native_name =

| logo = Daiwa House logo.svg

| logo_size = 150

| type = Public (K.K)

| traded_as = {{TYO|1925}}
TOPIX Large 70 Component
TOPIX 100 Component
Nikkei 225 Component

| foundation = {{Start date and age|1955|04|05}}

| location_city = 3-3-5 Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka 530-8241, Japan

| key_people = {{unbulleted list|Takeo Higuchi, (CEO and Chairman)|Naotake Ohno, (COO and President)|Nobuo Ishibashi (Founder)}}

| industry = Construction
Real estate

| services = {{unbulleted list|Design and construction of residential, commercial and institutional buildings and health care facilities|Renting and leasing of real estate|Operation of resort hotels, golf courses, fitness clubs and health care facilities}}

| revenue = $37.371 billion USD (FY 2019) {{Cite web|url=https://fortune.com/global500/2019/daiwa-house-industry/|title = Daiwa House Industry | 2021 Global 500}}

| net_income = {{profit}} $ 705.042 million USD (FY 2012)

(¥ 66.274 billion JPY) (FY 2012)

| num_employees = 44,947 {{Cite web|url=https://fortune.com/global500/2019/daiwa-house-industry/|title = Daiwa House Industry | 2021 Global 500}}

| owner = The Master Trust Bank of Japan (9.70%)
Japan Trustee Services Bank (5.92%)
Odakyu (0.19%)
Kanagawa Chuo Kotsu (0.01%)

| subsid = 92

| homepage = {{Official website|https://www.daiwahouse.com/English/}}

| footnotes = {{cite web |url=https://www.daiwahouse.co.jp/English/data/index.html |title=Corporate Data |access-date=March 22, 2014}}{{cite web |url=https://www.daiwahouse.com/English/groupbrand/ar/pdf/daiwahouseAR2013E_all.pdf |title=Annual Report 2013 |access-date=March 22, 2014}}{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/companyProfile?symbol=1925.T |title=Company Profile |publisher=Reuters |access-date=March 22, 2014}}{{cite web|url=https://www.answers.com/topic/daiwa-house-industry-co-ltd|title=Daiwa House Industry Co., Ltd.|work=Hoover's Profile|publisher=via Answers.com|access-date=March 22, 2014}}

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{{nihongo|Daiwa House Industry Co., Ltd.|大和ハウス工業株式会社|Daiwa Hausu Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha}} is Japan's largest homebuilder,{{cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=al7qtpu66xew|title=Daiwa House, State Lender Said to Bid for New City|last1=Kuwako|first1=Katsuyo|last2=Yamazaki|first2=Tomoko

|date=March 10, 2009|work=Bloomberg|access-date=March 22, 2014}} specializing in prefabricated houses. The company is also engaged in the construction of factories, shopping centers, health care facilities, the management and operation of resort hotels, golf courses and fitness clubs. Daiwa House also operates as a sales agency for HAL robot suits.

Daiwa House is also one of Japan's largest owner and operator of freight logistics centers, with over 250 logistics properties under management, and further expansion planned in this business segment.{{cite news|url=https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Business-deals/Blackstone-to-buy-Daiwa-House-logistics-centers-for-523m|title=Blackstone to buy Daiwa House logistics centers for $523m|date=July 30, 2020|work=Nikkei Asia Review|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200901091036/https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Business-deals/Blackstone-to-buy-Daiwa-House-logistics-centers-for-523m|archive-date=September 1, 2020|url-status=live}}

The company was founded in 1955 in Osaka{{cite encyclopedia |last=Frédéric |first=Louis |author2=Roth, Käthe |encyclopedia=Japan encyclopedia |title=Daiwa Hausu Kōgyō |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA145 |access-date=2009-10-22 |year=2005 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=0-674-01753-6 |pages=145}}{{cite book|last=Brown|first=Naomi|title=Demographic change and the family in Japan's aging society|editor=John W. Traphagan, John Knight|publisher=SUNY Press|year=2003|series=Suny Series in Japan in Transition and Suny Series in Aging and Culture|page=61|chapter=Under One Roof: The Evolving Story of Three Generation Housing in Japan|isbn=0-7914-5649-8|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KnUh8lS1gPYC&pg=PA61|access-date=2009-10-23}}{{cite book|last=Hines|first=Mary Alice|title=Japan real estate investment|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=2001|page=158|isbn=1-56720-374-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=peswbucJEfYC&pg=PA158|access-date=2009-10-23}} and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and Osaka Securities Exchange, being a constituent of the TOPIX{{cite web |url=http://www.tse.or.jp/english/market/topix/data/b7gje60000003v9e-att/Large70-201310-e.pdf |title=TOPIX Large70 Components |publisher=Japan Exchange Group |access-date=March 22, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131013065445/http://www.tse.or.jp/english/market/topix/data/b7gje60000003v9e-att/Large70-201310-e.pdf |archive-date=October 13, 2013 }} and Nikkei 225{{cite web|url=http://indexes.nikkei.co.jp/en/nkave/index/component?idx=nk225#41 |title=Components:Nikkei Stock Average |publisher=Nikkei Inc. |access-date=March 22, 2014}} stock indices.

In 2012, the Scout Association of Japan received a donation of a large forest of approximately 2.7 square kilometers in Takahagi, Ibaraki Prefecture from Daiwa. Permanent facilities include an Administrative Building with accommodations for 44 people, dining room/kitchen, meeting room, training room; an outdoor auditorium of 200 m² that seats about 100 people; a tent campsite with accommodations for about 800 people and about 50 campfire places available; a communal plaza (Hiroba 広場), and an outdoor arena stage.{{cite web |url=https://www.scout.or.jp/facility/takahagi.html |title=「大和の森」高萩スカウトフィールド of 公益財団法人ボーイスカウト日本連盟 |website=www.scout.or.jp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170903164045/https://www.scout.or.jp/facility/takahagi.html |archive-date=2017-09-03}}