- CEO
- Yutaka Nagaoka
- Full Time Employees
- 4,159
- Sector
- Consumer Cyclical
- Industry
- Apparel - Manufacturers
- Address
- 3-3-10, Kawaramachi Osaka Japan 541-0048
- IPO Date
- Mar 30, 2022
- Business
- The Japan Wool Textile Co., Ltd. (Nikke) engages in the development, manufacture, and wholesale of textile and clothing materials; industrial equipment; people and future development; and daily life products in Japan. The company operates through four main segments: Clothing Fibers, which sells high-functional materials including wool fabrics, uniform textiles for schools, private companies, and government offices, clothing materials, and yarns; Industrial Equipment, which provides wools, synthetic fibers, threads, strings, felts, non-woven textiles, tennis and badminton gut, fishing lines, and other industrial materials; People and Future Development, which develops, rents, and operates commercial facilities and real estate properties including office buildings and ZEH rental housing; and Daily Life, which offers blankets, beddings, hand-knitted yarns, interior products, airline blankets, disaster relief items, stamps, and stamp inks. Nikke primarily serves apparel, industrial, consumer, and real estate markets throughout Japan, with additional operations in Indonesia via subsidiaries. Founded in 1896 and headquartered in Osaka, Japan, the company employs approximately 4,500 people.
In recent developments, Nikke acquired full ownership of Kakotekunosu Group and its subsidiary Santech in October 2025 to enhance manufacturing technologies for railway and social infrastructure control devices; completed a share buyback of 2 million shares (2.9% of outstanding) for ¥3.16 billion in May 2025; secured ESG financing in October 2025; launched sales of the Genocel Cardio Plate, a gelatin fiber non-woven plate for cardiac myocyte evaluation, in February 2025; acquired shares in Toyobo Kankyo Techno Co., Ltd. in April 2024 and Kureha Tech Co., Ltd. in August 2024; initiated the WAONAS wool clothing recycling project in October 2024 aiming for 100,000 circular uniforms by 2030; entered a corporate PPA with ERE and Kansai Electric Power in July 2024; and achieved full consolidation of subsidiaries including Nikke, Kakotekunosu, and Santech as reported in its fiscal 2025 third-quarter results.