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Kao Corp. (4452)

Symbol	Exchange	Currency
4452	Tokyo	JPY	Delayed
KAOOY	OTC Markets	USD	Delayed
4452	Frankfurt	EUR	Delayed

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6,280.0 +98.0 +1.59%

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Volume: 2,007,800
Bid/Ask: 6,271.0 / 6,284.0
Day's Range: 6,211.0 - 6,314.0

Type: Equity

Market: Japan

ISIN: JP3205800000

Kao Corp. Company Profile

Read the Kao Corp. company profile to learn more about the business and the management team. View Kao Corp. facts about employee data, company products and services, and contact information.

IndustryPersonal & Household Products & Services

SectorConsumer Non-Cyclicals

Employees

35411

Equity Type

ORD

Kao Corporation develops and sells hygiene and living care, health and beauty care, life care business, cosmetics, and chemical products. The Hygiene and Living Care Business segment offers fabric, kitchen, home, sanitary, and pet care products. The Health and Beauty Care Business segment provides facial, body, hair, and oral care, hair styling and color, Salon, In-bathroom health care, and warming products. The Life Care Business segments offers health drinks, as well as hygiene products for commercial use. The Cosmetics Business segment provides counseling and self-selection cosmetic products. The Chemical Business segment offers oleo chemicals; fat and oil derivatives; surfactants; fragrances; water-reducing admixtures; casting sand binders; plastics additives; process chemicals; toners and toner binders; inkjet ink colorants and ink; fine polishing agents and cleaners; and materials and process chemicals. The company was formerly known as Kao Soap Co., Ltd. and changed its name to Kao Corporation in 1982. Kao Corporation was founded in 1887 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Contact Information

Address 14-10, Nihonbashi Kayabacho 1-chome
Chuo-ku Tokyo, 103-8210
Japan

Phone 81 3 3660 7111

Fax -

Web www.kao.com/jp

Top Executives

Name	Age	Since	Title
Yoshihiro Hasebe	62	2015	President, CEO & Representative Director
Toru Nishiguchi	62	2020	Senior Managing Executive Officer, VP of Consumer Products - Global & Director
David J. Muenz	63	2018	Managing Executive Officer. Senior VP of Global ESG & Director
Masakazu Negoro	63	2019	Senior Managing Executive Officer, Senior VP of Global Procurement & Director
Osamu Shinobe	72	2018	Independent Chairman
Hideki Amano	71	2017	Independent Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member
Makoto Takashima	66	2024	Independent Outside Director
Yasushi Wada	65	2019	Audit & Supervisory Board Member
Takaaki Nishii	65	2023	Independent Outside Director
Saeko Arai	60	2024	Audit & Supervisory Board Member
Jalal Ramelan	-	-	ESG External Advisory Board Member
Helmut Schmitz	-	-	ESG External Advisory Board Member
Sadanao Kawashima	65	2021	Full-time Audit & Supervisory Board Member
Nobuhiro Oka	61	2018	Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member
Lisa Caroline MacCallum	52	-	ESG External Advisory Board Member
Eriko Sakurai	64	2022	Independent Outside Director
Rika Sueyoshi	-	-	ESG External Advisory Board Member

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