- CEO
- Masahiro Nozaki
- Full Time Employees
- 938
- Sector
- Consumer non-durables
- Industry
- Food: meat/fish/dairy
- Address
- 7-77, Tsushimaya Niigata NI Japan 950-8735
- IPO Date
- Feb 7, 1989
- Business
- Ichimasa Kamaboko Co., Ltd. manufactures and sells fish-paste products, prepared side dishes and maitake mushrooms primarily in Japan. The company, founded in 1965 and headquartered in Niigata City, Niigata Prefecture, operates through seafood paste products, prepared foods and mushroom segments; its core offerings under the Ichimasa brand include retainer-molded kamaboko, crab-flavored kamaboko such as Okhotsk and jumbo crab sticks, frozen cooked fish cakes in unagi flavor, frozen deep-fried fish cakes or fish nuggets, imitation sea urchin products, marine sticks, naruto, salad sticks, retort pouch ready-to-eat foods, zosui gruel, processed fish snacks and cultivated maitake mushrooms. It maintains production facilities including the headquarters factory and second headquarters factory in Tsushimaya Niigata City, Hokkaido factory in Otaru, Kansai factory in Moriyama Shiga, Higashi-ko factory, Seiro factory, Yamakido factory and Sasakami Cultivation Center in Agano Niigata; the company also provides warehousing and cargo transportation services. Recent developments encompass the construction of the Headquarters 2nd factory in Tsushimaya Niigata City in 2023, installation of solar power generation facilities at the Cultivation Center in 2022, acquisition of GLOBAL G.A.P. certification at the Cultivation Center, FSSC 22000 at the Seiro Factory, multiple ISO14001 certifications across factories and ISO45001 at the head office and headquarters factory in 2022, alongside earlier liquidations of subsidiaries Yizheng Agriculture Technology (Changzhou) Co., Ltd. and Marusu-kamaboko Industries Co., Ltd. in 2021.