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Nippon Meat Packers, Inc.

Type	Corporation TYO: 2282
Founded	1949
Headquarters	Osaka, Japan
Key people	Hiroshi Kobayashi, President
Industry	Food processing
Products	Ham, Sausage, other food products
Revenue	1.032 trillion Yen ($10 billion) (Consolidated, Fiscal year ended March 31, 2008)
Employees	28,200 (Consolidated, as of March 31, 2008)
Website	Nippon Ham (English)

Nippon Meat Packers, Inc. (日本ハム株式会社, Nippon Hamu Kabushiki-gaisha^?) is a food processing conglomerate headquartered in Chūō-ku, Osaka, Japan. Founded in 1949, the company is commonly known as Nippon Ham. 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.

[edit] History

[edit] See also

• Ham
• Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters
• Cerezo Osaka

[edit] External links

• Nippon Ham homepage (English)
• Nippon Ham homepage (Japanese)