Hokkaido Gas Co., Ltd.
882.00
JPY
+17.00
(+1.97%)
ISIN
JP3847000001
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28.57
14.20
3Y
92.91
81.12
5Y
192.83
68.34
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- CEO
- Chisato Kawamura
- Full Time Employees
- 1,641
- Sector
- Utilities
- Industry
- Gas distributors
- Address
- 2-1-1, Kita 7 Johigashi Sapporo HO Japan 060-0907
- IPO Date
- May 16, 1949
- Website
- hokkaido-gas.co.jp
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- Business
- Hokkaido Gas Co., Ltd. produces, distributes and sells city gas; supplies heat, electricity and power; purifies and sells gas by-products; produces and sells gas appliances including cooking appliances, hot water supplies, heating-cooling combination appliances and warning buzzers; and provides related construction works such as gas piping, facility construction and civil engineering in Hokkaido, Japan, primarily serving individual and corporate customers in Sapporo, Otaru, Hakodate, Chitose, Ishikari, Kitahiroshima, Eniwa, Hokuto and Kitami areas. Founded in 1911 and headquartered at 2-1-1 Higashi, Kita7-jo, Higashi-ku, Sapporo, the company operates through segments including gas, electricity, energy-related businesses featuring community gas utilities, liquefied petroleum gas sales and heat supply via subsidiaries like Kitagas Genex Co., Ltd., Hokkaido Heat Supply Co., Ltd. and affiliates such as Muroran Gas Co., Ltd.; it generates electricity from solar, wind and biomass sources including the recently commissioned 2MW Kitagas Ishikari Wind Power Plant and maintains a 13.1MW solar portfolio with ambitions to reach 150MW renewable capacity by fiscal 2030. Recent developments include a May 2024 long-term LNG supply and purchase agreement with Australia's Santos for up to 400,000 metric tons per year over 10 years starting 2027 on a delivered ex-ship basis linked to Japan's LNG import prices, collaboration with Santos on carbon sequestration and e-methane opportunities, negotiations with JERA as of August 2025 for additional LNG cargoes of two to four per year from April 2027 over seven years at Brent-linked prices to support regional demand growth from coal-to-gas switching, a 5-for-1 stock split effective October 1, 2024 increasing issued shares to 88.7 million, release of the Xzilla information platform in 2023 for business digitization, renewal of the TagTag membership website in 2024, achievement of 50,000 units sold of the Eco-Jozu energy-saving gas central water heating system by October 2023 and progression of the Kitagas Group Business Plan Challenge 2030 targeting consolidated net sales of 200 billion yen and operating profit of 16 billion yen by fiscal 2030 through total energy services, renewable expansion and digital reforms.