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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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6,845.0 +52.0 +0.77%

07:30:29 - Closed. Currency in JPY

Type: Equity

Market: Japan

ISIN: JP3205800000

Volume: 1,398,500
Bid/Ask: 6,845.0 / 6,855.0
Day's Range: 6,804.0 - 6,873.0

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Kao Corp. Company Profile

Get an in-depth profile of Kao Corp., including a general overview of the company's business and key management, as well as employee data and location and contact information.

IndustryPersonal & Household Products & Services

SectorConsumer Non-Cyclicals

Employees

32566

Equity Type

ORD

Kao Corporation develops and sells hygiene living care, health beauty care, life care, cosmetics, and chemical products. The company offers fabric, kitchen, home, and sanitary care products; facial, body, hair, and oral care, hair styling and color, salon, in-bathroom health care, and warming products; and self-selection cosmetics, as well as provides cosmetics counselling services. It also provides oleo chemicals, such as oleochemicals, fat and oil derivatives, surfactants, and fragrances; water-reducing admixtures for concrete, casting sand binders, plastics additives, and process chemicals for various industries; and toners/toner binders, inkjet ink colorants, ink, fine polishing agents and cleaners for hard disk, and materials and process chemicals for semiconductor. 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 1-14-10 Nihonbashi Kayabacho 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	65	2015	President, CEO & Representative Director
Osamu Shinobe	73	2018	Independent Chairman
Masakazu Negoro	65	2019	Senior Managing Executive Officer, Head of Corporate Finance Unit & Director
Takaaki Nishii	66	2023	Independent Outside Director
Saeko Arai	61	2024	Audit & Supervisory Board Member
Nobuhiro Oka	62	2018	Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member
Sarah L. Casanova	60	2025	Independent Outside Director
Makoto Takashima	67	2024	Independent Outside Director
Yasushi Wada	66	2019	Audit & Supervisory Board Member
Rika Sueyoshi	-	-	ESG External Advisory Board Member
Toru Nishiguchi	64	2020	Senior Mngng Exec Ofcr, Head of Global & Asia Region of Global Consumer Care Div and Rep Director
Eriko Sakurai	65	2022	Independent Outside Director
Lisa Caroline MacCallum	53	2025	Executive Fellow of Corporate Branding & Director
Jalal Ramelan	-	-	ESG External Advisory Board Member
Helmut Schmitz	-	-	ESG External Advisory Board Member
Mami Murata	60	2025	Full-Time Audit & Supervisory Board Member
Junya Naito	61	2025	Audit & Supervisory Board Member

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