- Full Time Employees
- 83
- Sector
- Distribution services
- Industry
- Food distributors
- Address
- Nagoya Japan
- IPO Date
- Nov 6, 1984
- Business
- Chubu Suisan Co., Ltd. is a Japan-based seafood wholesaling company primarily engaged in the procurement, distribution, and wholesale of fresh, frozen, and processed marine products. Founded in 1946 and headquartered in Nagoya, Japan, the company operates centrally from the Nagoya City Central Wholesale Market, serving intermediate wholesalers, food processors, retail supermarkets, and food service operators across the Chubu region and throughout Japan. The company operates through several core business segments: Seafood Wholesale, Cold Storage Warehousing, Feed Manufacturing, and Real Estate Leasing. Its extensive product and service portfolio comprises fresh and frozen pelagic and coastal fish, including horse mackerel, mackerel, sardines, Pacific saury, bonito, and yellowtail; fresh and frozen tuna species; whitefish and sea bream; shellfish and mollusks, such as scallops, oysters, clams, and abalone; crustaceans, including shrimp and crab; processed marine foods, salted and dried fish, seasoned delicacies, fish roe, and traditional kamaboko fish cakes; temperature-controlled refrigerated warehousing and cold storage logistics services for perishable goods and commercial food distributors; specialized feeds for aquaculture and fisheries; and the leasing and management of commercial and residential real estate properties. In recent developments, Chubu Suisan transitioned its stock listing to the Nagoya Stock Exchange Main Market following market restructuring and optimized its business operations by streamlining legacy feed manufacturing activities to direct greater resources toward core seafood wholesale and cold-chain logistics. Furthermore, the company has enhanced its cold-chain infrastructure and quality preservation systems at its central market facilities in Nagoya, expanding direct supply relationships with major regional mass merchandisers and strengthening corporate governance and operational compliance frameworks.