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Dec. 1966 Daisho Shokuhin Co., Ltd. established for the manufacture and sale of yakiniku seasoning and other food products (paid-in capital: 1,500 thousand yen)
Main office and plant facilities located in Hakozaki-maekawacho, Fukuoka-shi.
Beginning of Yakiniku Ichiban sauce production.
May 1968 Beginning of production and sales of Aji Shio-Kosho salt-pepper seasoning.
April 1970 Fukuoka business office opened.
Nagoya business office opened.
April 1973 Osaka business office opened.
April 1974 Main plant facility relocated to Sharyo, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka-shi.
June Main office relocated to Sharyo, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka-shi.
Sept. Oita business office opened.
Sendai business office opened.
Oct. 1975 Tokyo business office opened.
April 1977 Kagoshima business office opened.
Kita-kyushu business office opened.
May Main plant facility expanded (to four-story structure 3000 m2 of total floor space).
Oct. Kanazawa business office opened.
April 1978 Nagasaki business office opened.
Sept. Hiroshima business office opened.
Oct. Hyogo business office (current Kobe business office) opened.
Nov. Miyazaki business office opened.
April 1981 Kanagawa business office (current Yokohama business office) opened.
July Chikugo business office opened.
April 1982 Matsuyama business office opened.
Yamaguchi business office opened.
May Trademark for "Yakiniku Ichiban" registered.
July Kumamoto business office opened.
July 1983 Okinawa business office opened.
April 1984 Saitama business office opened.
April 1985 Sapporo business office opened.
May Matsumoto branch office (current Nagano business office) opened.
June Takamatsu business office opened.
Aug. 1986 Shizuoka branch office (current Shizuoka business office) opened.
Nov. Niigata business office opened.
Dec. CI program implemented. Company mission, motto, and logo mark renewed, and new company song composed.
Matsue branch office (current Matsue business office) opened.
Feb. 1987 Koriyama branch office (current Koriyama business office) opened.
April Akita branch office (current Akita business office) opened.
May Main office and plant facility relocated to Matsuda, Higashi-ku.
April 1988 Ibaraki business office opened.
Feb. 1989 Fukuyama business office (current Okayama business office) opened.
Kochi business office opened.
March Morioka business office opened.
Sept. Kanto Factory No. 1 constructed and placed into operation in Higashi-ibaraki-gun, Ibaraki Pref.
Dec. 1989 Beginning of production and sales of Motsu Nabe Soup.
Feb. 1992 Beginning of production and sales of Majuan.
June Chiba business office opened.
Aug. 1993 Aji Shio-Kosho trademark registered.
Oct. Kanto Factory No. 1 expanded and liquid filling facilities augmented.
March 1994 Capital increased to 491 million yen.
April Asahikawa business office opened.
Company name changed to Daisho Co., Ltd.
June "Majuan" trademark registered.
Sept. Beginning of production and sales of Kimchi Nabe Soup.
Oct. New Eastern Japan Operations Center, Kanto Bloc, Tokyo business office, and Tokyo R&D Center relocated to newly constructed Tokyo Head Office building in Sumida-ku, Tokyo.
Jan. 1996 Dual head office structure adopted with creation of Tokyo Head Office in Sumida-ku, Tokyo and Fukuoka Head office in Higashi-ku, Fukuoka.
Feb. Main office registered in Sumida-ku, Tokyo.
June Kyoto business office opened.
April 1997 Company stock registered for trading over the counter.
Capital increased to 809 million yen.
April 1999 Logistics Division created.
May 2000 Fukuoka Factory HACCP certified.
Nov. Company stock listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange, Section 2.
April 2001 Kanto Factory expanded and consolidated with Factory No. 2.
June Adoption of three-headquarters structure comprising a sales, manufacturing, and management headquarters.
April 2002 Branch system introduced.
May 2003 Kanto Factory HACCP certified.
April 2004 Fukuoka Factory No. 2 built and placed into operation.
Company’s new main computer system started operation.
Hakodate business office opened.
June Nishi-Tokyo business office opened.
Jan. 2006 Adoption of four-headquarters structure including a merchandise headquarter,
promoted from a merchandise division.
March Minami-Osaka and Mie business offices opened.
April Creation of Food Service Sales divisions in Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka.
Gunma business office opened.
Business offices opened on all the branch sites.
Oct. 2007 Metropolitan area Sales Department opened.
Feb. 2008 Daisho Food Systems Co., Ltd. established.

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