Nippon Ham

NH Foods Ltd.
日本ハム株式会社

Company type	Public (K.K)
Traded as	TYO: 2282 Nikkei 225 component
Founded	Tokushima, Japan (May 30, 1949 (1949-05-30))
Headquarters	Breezé Tower, 2-14-9, Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan
Key people	Hiroshi Kobayashi (President)
Products	Ham, Sausage, other food products
Revenue	¥989,308 million (US$11,919,373 thousand) (Consolidated, FY 2010, 83 yen/US dollar)
Operating income	¥33,175 million (US$399,698 thousand) (Consolidated, FY 2010, 83 yen/US dollar)
Net income	¥16,731 million (US$201,579 thousand) (Consolidated, FY 2010, 83 yen/US dollar)
Total assets	¥590,688 million (US$7,116,723 thousand) (Consolidated, FY 2010, 83 yen/US dollar)
Total equity	¥283,204 million (US$3,412,097 thousand) (Consolidated, FY 2010, 83 yen/US dollar)
Number of employees	15,118 (Consolidated, as of March 31, 2011)
Website	Nippon Ham (English)

NH Foods Ltd. (日本ハム株式会社, Nippon Hamu Kabushiki-gaisha) (English name before 2014: Nippon Meat Packers, Inc.) is a food processing conglomerate headquartered in Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan.

History

Founded in 1949, the company is commonly known as Nippon Ham (stylized as Nipponham). As a multinational corporation, Nippon Ham operates subsidiaries around the world, including China and the United States. In addition to its main business of meat packing and other food processing, the company owns the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, a professional baseball team in Japan's Pacific League, and owns part of the J-League soccer team, Cerezo Osaka.

External links

• Nippon Ham homepage (English)
• Nippon Ham homepage (Japanese)