Company Profile | Tomoe Group Overview
| Chief Executive Officer Chief Operating Officer |
Nobuhiro Yanase, Chairman and CEO Hideto Yanase, President and COO |
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| Establishment | Founded on May 1947 | ||||||||
| Employees | 147 (as of March 31, 2015) | ||||||||
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| Tomoe Group Overview | TOMOE CO., LTD. TOMOE SYSTEM INC. TOMOE SHANGHAI INC. TOMOE (THAILAND) CO., LTD. TOMOE (USA) COMPANY LIMITED. |
■History of Tomoe Group
| [May 1947] | Founded to sell automotive parts |
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| [June 1951] | Incorporated with 1 million yen in capital |
| [June 1957] | Acquisition of Columbia Co., Ltd. to launch wholesale distribution in Hokuriku, Shikoku and Sanin regions |
| [July 1964] | Headquarters building built |
| [April 1967] | Trading division established separated from Automotive parts division to enhance the construction machinery and industrial vehicle business |
| [March 1974] | Trading division renamed to Industrial equipment division |
| [March 1983] | Hiroshima sales office opened |
| [July 2002] | Automotive parts division and Industrial equipment division spun off from Tomoe Shokai into separate companies. Automotive parts division called Tomoe Co., Ltd., and Industrial equipment division called Tomoe System Inc. |
| [November 2003] | Akashi logistics center (ALC) opened |
| [November 2006] | Acquisition of ISO 9001 certification (Tomoe Co., Ltd.) |
| [February 2007] | Acquisition of ISO14001 certification |
| [March 2008] | Komatsu sales office opened |
| [July 2009] | Tomoe Shanghai Inc. established (100% subsidiary) |
| [June 2011] | Acquisition of ISO 9001 certification (Tomoe System Inc.) |
| [November 2011] | Tomoe System Inc. established by split-up |
| [June 2012] | Tomoe (Thailand) Co., Ltd. established (100% subsidiary) |
| [2014] | Tomoe (USA) Company Limited. established (100% subsidiary) |
