Nippon Ham

{{Short description|Japanese food processing conglomerate}}

{{primary sources|date=January 2009}}

{{Expand Japanese|日本ハム|date=March 2025}}

{{Infobox company

| name = NH Foods Ltd.

| native_name = 日本ハム株式会社

| romanized_name = Nippon Hamu Kabushiki-gaisha

| logo = Nipponham logo.svg

| logo_caption = Logo used since 2018

| image = Breeze Tower 20080106-001.jpg

| image_caption = Headquarters in Kita-ku, Osaka

| former_names = Tokushima Ham Co., Ltd. (1949–1963)
Nippon Meat Packers Ltd. (1963–2014)

| type = Public (K.K)

| traded_as = {{ubl|{{tyo|2282}}|Nikkei 225 component}}

| foundation = Tokushima, Japan ({{start date and age|1949|5|30}})


(established {{start date and age|1942|3|3}})

| founder = Yoshinori Ōkoso

| location = Breezé Tower, 2-14-9, Umeda

| location_city = Kita-ku, Osaka

| location_country = Japan

| key_people = Hiroshi Kobayashi
(President)

| num_employees = 15,118 (Consolidated, as of March 31, 2011)

| revenue = {{steady}}¥989,308 million (US$11,919,373 thousand)
(Consolidated, FY 2010, 83 yen/US dollar){{cite web|url=http://www.nipponham.co.jp/en/pdf/anual2011all_e.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110818045645/http://www.nipponham.co.jp/en/pdf/anual2011all_e.pdf|url-status=dead|title=Annual Report 2011|archive-date=2011-08-18|format=PDF|publisher=Nippon Meat Packers, Inc.}}

| operating_income = {{increase}}¥33,175 million (US$399,698 thousand)
(Consolidated, FY 2010, 83 yen/US dollar)

| net_income = {{increase}}¥16,731 million (US$201,579 thousand)
(Consolidated, FY 2010, 83 yen/US dollar)

| assets = {{decrease}}¥590,688 million (US$7,116,723 thousand)
(Consolidated, FY 2010, 83 yen/US dollar)

| equity = {{increase}}¥283,204 million (US$3,412,097 thousand)
(Consolidated, FY 2010, 83 yen/US dollar)

| owner = {{unbulleted list|The Master Trust Bank of Japan (14.60%)|Japan Trustee Services Bank (7.32%)|The Hyakujushi Bank (3.66%)|
(As of March 31, 2020)}}

| products = Ham, Sausage, other food products

| website = [https://www.nipponham.co.jp/eng/ Nippon Ham (English)]

}}

{{nihongo|NH Foods Ltd.|日本ハム株式会社| Nippon Hamu Kabushiki-gaisha}} (English name before 2014: Nippon Meat Packers, Inc.) is a food processing conglomerate headquartered in Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan.

History

Founded in 1949, the company is commonly known as Nippon Ham (stylized as Nipponham). As a multinational corporation, Nippon Ham operates subsidiaries around the world, including China and the United States. In addition to its main business of meat packing and other food processing, the company owns the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, a professional baseball team in Japan's Pacific League, and owns part of the J.League soccer team, Cerezo Osaka.

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