Japan Pulp and Paper Company

Japan Pulp and Paper Company Limited (日本紙パルプ商事株式会社, Nihon Kami Parupu Shōji kabushiki kaisha) is a Japanese global pulp and paper trading company, first in Japan and third in the world by the amount of sales (sales in 2018 : ¥535.49B^[2]) after Veritiv Corporation (net sales in 2018 : $8.7B^[3]) and Central National-Gottesman (revenue in 2018 : $6.2B^[4][5]).^[6][7] Japan Pulp and Paper Company (JPP) distributes paper-related products and also operates real estate business.^[8][9]　In 2019, JPP acquired Birmingham-headquartered PREMIER PAPER GROUP (PPG) for ¥5.2B and made PPG into its affiliate with PPG's management team remaining in place and all the 480 employees being kept on following the acquisition.^[10][11][6]

Japan Pulp and Paper Company Limited

Native name	日本紙パルプ商事株式会社
Company type	Public
Traded as	TYO: 8032 TOPIX Component
Industry	Pulp and paper, Logistics, Real Estate
Founded	1845; 180 years ago (1845) (as Echisan Shoten, thereafter Nakai Shoten)
Founder	Saburobe Nakai III
Headquarters	Forefront Tower, 3-12-1 Kachidoki, Chuo-ku, Tokyo , Japan
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Akihiko Watanabe (president)
Services	related to paper, paperboard, pulp, paper-related products and real estate
Total equity	Stock listing (Common stock): Tokyo Stock Exchange, First Section Number of shares: 29,560,300 Common shares issued and outstanding: 15,021,551 (As of March 31, 2018)
Owner	Oji Holdings Corp. (10.9%) Nippon Paper Industries Pension Fund (9.3%) Japan Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd. (8.1%) Japan Pulp & Paper Business Association (3.0%) Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (2.6%) Nomura Asset Management Co., Ltd. (2.1%) Hokuetsu Corp. (2.0%) Japan Pulp & Paper Employee Stock Ownership Plan (1.9%) Chuetsu Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd. (1.7%) The Vanguard Group, Inc. (1.6%) (As of 18 December 2020[1])
Number of employees	Consolidated 4,298 Non-Consolidated 709 (As of June, 2020[2])
Subsidiaries	Radms Paper Limited Premier Paper Group Limited CORELEX Co., Ltd. Ball & Doggett Group Pty Ltd Spicers Paper (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd
Website	https://www.kamipa.co.jp/eng/company/

Major activities

• Import and export, sale, distribution and manufacturing of paper, paperboard, pulp, paper-related products^[12]
• Real estate leasing; generation, sale and provision of electricity^[12]

Segments

• Japan Wholesaling
• Non-Japan Wholesaling
• Paper Manufacturing and Processing
• Resources and Environment
• Real Estate Leasing^[1]