In September 1966, the founder, Atsushi Sakata (currently Honorary Chairman), established Nissho Sangyo Corporation with the aim of selling disposable products in the medical field.
At that time, there was no concept of disposables in the medical industry, so he repeated steady sales activities throughout the country, appealing for convenience and hygiene.
1966
1970
1970
After about three years, when the business base had stabilized, information came in that KFC International was planning to open an experimental store at the 1970 Osaka World Exposition.
Sakata was approached by a major printing company with whom he had a close relationship to develop packaging for Kentucky take-out, and he decided to take advantage of his product development skills cultivated in the medical field.
In the wake of the Osaka World Exposition, we devised a business model called “Total Supplier” for Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants, in which we would take care of all the other necessities required by Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants, except for chicken and other fresh ingredients.
The 1970s and 1980s were a time of rapid expansion for Kentucky Fried Chicken’s store network.
We responded to Kentucky’s growth with a reliable delivery network and refined our know-how in warehouse and delivery operations.
This business model was the best fit for other fast food, restaurant, and izakaya businesses, especially those that were expanding into chains.
In the 1970s, Japan was in a period of expansion of fast food and restaurant chains, and our company was able to continue to grow with the growth of the industry, focusing on the restaurant business, including the KFC business.
1995
The infrastructure that supported this chain of businesses was highly developed logistics and the introduction of the latest IT (information and communication technology). It is because of this logistics infrastructure and information technology that we were able to create our fourth business.
In 1995, we started to deliver cigarettes and other general prizes to individual pachinko halls by utilizing our logistics capabilities.
2000
2000
With the bursting of the bubble economy and the beginning of the 2000s, the lifestyle industry business, which had been the driving force behind the company’s growth, began to show signs of weakness.
The second president, Akihiko Sakata (current president and representative director), took over the baton from the founder, and as the food service industry entered a mature stage, he turned his attention back to the medical business, the business in which the company was founded. This was a full-scale entry into the medical business supply chain.
We strengthened our manufacturing and quality guidance to our overseas partner manufacturers, and in 2006, we launched our own brand of medical products, creating a foundation that can be called a second founding of our company, leading to our cash cow business.
2020
After more than a decade of reform and stability, from the early spring of 2020, under the influence of the new corona, the medical business has been working hard to ensure a stable supply of products, with a sense of mission as a leader of the essential business that supports the medical industry.
In the lifestyle-related products business, we sincerely responded to the needs of our customers, taking into consideration the circumstances of each company, as they were divided into different industries and business categories.
In the future, we will continue to search for a company-wide strategy and a strategy for each business unit, looking from the era of With Corona to the post-Corona era.
Underlying all of this is the spirit of “Our Company’s Creed” which we articulated on the occasion of our 50th anniversary.
Our philosophy is to reward our customers, all of our business partners, and all of our stakeholders, and it is precisely in times like these that we want to question the significance of our existence both at home and abroad.
