Furuta Confectionery Co.,Ltd.

Company name:

Furuta Confectionery Co., Ltd.

Capital:

80 million yen

Founded on:

August 1, 1952

Manufactured items:

Chocolates, cookies, pies, jellies, ramune candies, gums, candies

Head office:

6-7-22 Hayashiji, Ikuno-ku, Osaka 544-0023 (See the map)

Factories:

Head office: 6-7-22 Hayashiji, Ikuno-ku, Osaka 544-0023 (See the map)
Mihara factory: 663 Kuroyama, Mihara-ku, Sakai, Osaka 587-0002 (See the map)

Marketing locations:

Osaka branch, Tokyo branch, Kitakanto branch, Nagoya branch, Kanazawa office, Fukuoka branch, Kagoshima office, Sapporo branch, Sendai branch, Morioka office, Hiroshima branch, Takamatsu branch

Directors:

Tsuruhiko Furuta	Chairman
Morihiko Furuta	President
Hiroshi Sumita	Director
Nobuhiko Murataka	Director
Eiji Umeyama	Director
Hirotsugu Oshima	Director
Naoko Furuta	Auditor
Yuko Furuta	Auditor

Number of employees:

280

Affiliates:

Furuta Foods Co., Ltd., Furuta Industry Co., Ltd., Relier Corporation

Banks:

Teradacho Branch, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Abenobashi-Nishi Branch, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ


Head office and head office factory (1) 8 minutes on foot from Tobushijomae Station, JR Yamatoji Line (2) 5 minutes on foot from the Kudara bus stop of Osaka Municipal Bus (Nos. 1, 9 and 13)		Mihara factory 1 minute on foot from the Shimokuroyamanishi bus stop of Kintetsu Bus No. 46 for Mihara Satsukino from the Kawachimatsubara Station of Kintetsu Minami-Osaka Line

August 1, 1952: Three Furuta brothers founded a cookie company in Ikuno-cho, Ikuno-ku, Osaka.
July 1956: Built a new chocolate and cookie factory.
January 10, 1961: Founded Nisshin Seika Co., Ltd. with 9 million yen in capital. Otohiko Furuta was appointed president.
August 1961: Opened the Tokyo Branch.
August 1962: Opened the Nagoya Branch.
August 1, 1963: Changed the company name to Furuta Confectionery Co., Ltd.
August 1963: Opened the Fukuoka Branch.
May 1965: Opened the Sapporo Branch.
October 1965: Opened the Hiroshima Branch.
April 1966: Opened the Sendai Branch.
January 1967: Opened the Takamatsu Branch.
1966-1974: pened offices in Niigata, Kagoshima, Kyoto, Yokohama, Kanazawa, Shizuoka, Aomori, Morioka, Asahikawa, Utsunomiya, Koriyama, Kumamoto, Matsuyama, Okayama and Nagasaki.
January 1973: Increased capital to 80 million yen.
November 1975: Built the Mihara Factory.
May 1977: Sequoia Chocolate received the Japan Confectionary Expo Honorary Director-General's Award.
December 1982: Built a new facility for commercial use chocolate.
March 1984: High Eight Chocolate received the Japan Confectionary Expo Prime Minister's Award.
September 1986: Sequoia Chocolate and Mon Lip Cookie received the Monde Selection Gold Quality Award.; Peanut Chocolate and Hitokuchi Chocolate received the Monde Selection Gold Quality Award.
September 1989: Doremi Song Chocolate and Airon Chocolate received the Monde Selection Gold Quality Award.
September 1992: Fresh Cream Pie and Efbon Chocolate received the Monde Selection Gold Quality Award.
August 1999: Completed the sixth expansion of the Mihara Factory. Expanded the facility for Fresh Cream Chocolate.
February 2001: Choco Egg received the Excellent Product Award (confectionery and pastry category) of Japan Food Journal Co., Ltd.
August 2001: Opened the Kitakanto Office.
October 2001: Kamehiko Furuta was appointed president.
February 2002: Choco Egg received the Nikkei MJ Award of Nikkei Excellent Product and Service Award.
November 2002: Choco Egg received the 24th Japan Confectionary Expo Honorary Director-General's Award (design section).
April 2003: Tsuruhiko Furuta was appointed president.
September 2004: Built a new facility for air bubble chocolate at the Mihara Factory.
May 2007: Built a distribution center in Mihara-ku, Sakai, Osaka.
June 2007: Expanded the facility for Sequoia and air bubble chocolate at the Mihara Factory.
June 2007: Opened the Kitakanto Branch.