Wholesale
Wholesale Business

Strengthening Bases in Asia andChallenging the Growing Market
Responding to customer needs with a diversity of businesses
A wholesale company Daimaru Kogyo deals in electronic parts,
food products, software, chemical products, metal and resin
products, housing materials, ﬁshing rods and others andprovides solutions to customers through various services
ranging from the procurement of industrial materials and retailmerchandise to after-sale care.
For example, in the ﬁeld of metal and resin products,
Daimaru Kogyo provides various parts of global strategic carsof major automobile manufacturers, and in the ﬁeld of chemicalproducts, the company supplies materials of the recently muchtalked about liquid glass to manufacturers. In the ﬁeld ofelectronic parts, the company attacks a niche in the printed
circuit board and semiconductor market and is competing withthe world s leading electronic parts manufacturers to develop
and procure products. In the ﬁeld of packaging materials,
Daimaru Kogyo reduces costs by using foreign manufacturing
plants and supplies many famous confectionery packages.

Synergy with the businesses of the Group
Daimaru Kogyo jointly develops with Daimaru Matsuzakaya
Department Stores items suitable for mid-year and year-end
gifts including seaweed, shiitake mushrooms, canned crab

meat and seasonings, which are sold at Daimaru andMatsuzakaya stores throughout Japan. The company clariﬁes
quality standards including the methods of selecting andprocessing raw materials and solely undertakes the entire
process from production to delivery. Daimaru Kogyo prepares
reliable certiﬁcates of origin and production evidence andprovides consumers with carefully manufactured products
together with reassurance.
Daimaru Kogyo imports wine and food directly from France
and Italy to sell them at Daimaru and Matsuzakaya stores andthe supermarkets of Peacock Stores. The company selects
and imports excellent products made with a focus on quality,
scent and taste including wine recommended by a famous
French chef Paul Bocuse. Using such know-how, Daimaru
Kogyo undertook the operation of liquor department in somelocations of Daimaru Matsuzakaya Department Stores in ﬁscal
2010 and entered the retail ﬁeld. By operating consistentlyfrom planning and procurement to sales, the company
contributes to the streamlining of department store sales
operations.
Daimaru Kogyo will deepen partnership with othercompanies of the Group including direct marketing, design andconstruction and a restaurant chain as well as department
store and supermarket chains to seek further synergy.

DalianShanghai

People s Republic of China
NanshaTaiwanTaipeiHong Kong

Myanmar

NaganoKita-Kanto (Gunma)Tokyo
NagoyaThailandHo Chi Minh

Indonesia
Jakarta

Oita

Strategic use of Asian bases
Daimaru Kogyo has a total of 15 business places mainly inthe triangular market of Japan, China and ASEAN countries
including six domestic locations such as Tokyo, Nagoya andOsaka and nine overseas locations such as Chinese
mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia andMyanmar. The world population is estimated to reach ninebillion in 2050 from the current 6.7 billion and Asian
countries in which the majority of the world population isconcentrated are said to be likely to account for 50% ofglobal GDP. From a global standpoint, Daimaru Kogyo,
which has the function of trading company, seems to have
many opportunities, and with a stronger focus on Southeast
Asian and ASEAN countries as information-gathering andbusiness bases, the company will expand into emerging
countries whose demand is expected to increase.

Topics for ﬁscal 2010

Received an inspection-free manufacturer
certiﬁcate and R&D thank-you cards
from Nissan Motor
On May 10, 2010, a ceremony to present aninspection-free manufacturer certiﬁcate was held at
Daimaru Kogyo Quality Control Center and Daimaru
Kogyo received a pass certiﬁcate. This is thecompany s 19th consecutive year of achieving
certiﬁcation as an inspection-free manufacturer. The
inspection-free manufacturer certiﬁcation requiresvery high quality standards to be met: thenon-defective rate of not less than 99% and thedelivery date achievement rate of not less than 95%.
Parts from such certiﬁed suppliers are used by
Nissan Research Center for experiments andresearches without inspection.
On October 29, 2010, Nissan Motor gave R&D
thank-you cards to two members of Daimaru Kogyo
Automobile Processed Parts Team at the pre-launchpresentation of Nissan s hybrid vehicle Fuga(launched on November 2, 2010). These R&D
thank-you cards were awarded to 50 companies that
had contributed to the research and development ofnew technologies for the hybrid vehicle Fuga.
※R&D stands for research and development.