MITSUI-SOKO Co., Ltd.
Company Information
Company Summary
- Company Name
- MITSUI-SOKO Co., Ltd.
- Headquarters
- MSC Center Building, 3-22-23 Kaigan, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-0022
TEL:+81-3-6400-8011
FAX:+81-3-6400-8388
- Representative
- President Hiroshi Torii
- Capital Stock
- 5 billion yen
- Establishment Date
- October 1, 2014
- Main Business Areas
- Warehousing, harbor transport, global logistics workflows
Officers
- Chairman
- Takanobu Kubo
- President
- Hiroshi Torii
- Executive Managing Director
- Hideki Wakano
- Director, Senior Executive Officer
- Shigeki Kanai
- Director, Senior Executive Officer
- Toshiyuki Nakanishi
- Director, Senior Executive Officer
- Kazuyoshi Fujimaki
- Director
- Nobuo Nakayama
- Director
- Tomoaki Kiriyama
- Executive Officer
- Hideaki Yamashita
- Executive Officer
- Hiroyuki Hamano
- Executive Officer
- Maku Kitano
- Executive Officer
- Tomoaki Fukuda
- Executive Officer
- Tadashi Tanaka
- Executive Officer
- Hideki Kai
- Executive Officer
- Kazutoyo Suzuki
- Auditor
- Yukio Ishida
History
- October 1909
- October 11, 1909
Established as Toshin Soko, Ltd. Headquarters was based in Tokyo, with other branches throughout Tokyo, Kobe, and Moji
- 1913
- Yokohama dispatching business launched (becomes Yokohama branch in 1923)
- January 1918
- Osaka Warehouse acquired and reopened as Osaka branch
- September 1922
- Opened Nagoya satellite office (becomes formal Nagoya branch in 1937
- March 1942
- Changed company name to Mitsui-Soko Co., Ltd.
- April 1950
- Listed shares for public trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
- October 1966
- Began offering automobile transport services
- March 1968
- Began working with maritime containers and operating container terminals in Japan
- April 1969
- Obtained license for automobile cargo transport and began offering container-truck shipments
- December 1977
- Established international division and plant division at headquarters and began offering international shipment services
- June 1982
- Obtained IATA license as air freight distributor and began air cargo service in earnest
- November 1984
- Moved headquarters from Hakozaki-cho, Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo to 1-chome Kayabacho Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo.
- November 1986
- Launched “big bag” business (trunk room storage, non-product category items for residential relocation, etc.)
- February 1988
- Established Mitsui-Soko International in Singapore
- January 1992
- Abandoned headquarters+local shop system and migrated to local branch system (local headquarters and corresponding divisions, with branches in Kanto, Chubu, Kansai, and Kyushu regions)
- April 2001
- Spun off Kyushu branch as Mitsui-Soko Kyushu Co., Ltd.
- June 2002
- Moved headquarters from 1-chome Kayabacho Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo to 3-chome Kaigan, Minato-ku, Tokyo.
- March 2003
- Obtained license for Class 2 transport (standalone/mixed air cargo) for air transport
- April 2004
- Adopted executive officer system
- April 2006
- Established BPO promotion division and launched BPO in earnest
- April 2008
- Established 3PL promotion division and launched 3PL in earnest
- October 2009
- Celebrated our 100-year anniversary
- January 2010
- Moved Kansai branch headquarters to Osaka
- April 2010
- Abandoned branch company system and migrated to divisional system
- March 2011
- Obtained controlling stake in JTB Air Cargo and changed name to
Mitsui-Soko Air Cargo
Enhanced international trade through air freight
- September 2011
- Moved headquarters from 3-chome Kaigan, Minato-ku, Tokyo, to 3-chome Nishi-Shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo
- April 2012
- Acquired Sanyo-Denki Logistics (changed name to Mitsui-Soko Logistics) and shored up 3PL business
- July 2012
- Acquired controlling share in TAS express and merged with
Mitsui-Soko Air Cargo
Launched as Mitsui-Soko Express
- October 2014
- Changed name from Mitsui-Soko Co., Ltd., and shifted to Mitsui-Soko
Holdings Co., Ltd.
acting as a holding company
Newly established and spun off Mitsui-Soko Co., Ltd. as an entity handling primary business operations
- January 2017
- Moved headquarters and Kanto branch office from Shinbashi 3-chome,
Minato-ku, Tokyo to
3-chome Kaigan, Minato-ku, Tokyo