United StatesSince its founding in 1894 as a cotton fabric wholesaler in Japan, Kowa Group has grown into a global enterprise with a 130-year history. Kowa Company, Ltd., as the core of the Group, is actively engaging in various business fields including the trading of textiles, machinery, and construction materials, in addition to the manufacturing and sales of medicines, medical devices, vision units, energy saving and energy creating products.
Message from the President & CEO
Focusing on “Health and Environment” for a bright future
Kowa Group commemorated the 130th anniversary of the foundation on December 25, 2024. With a progressive spirit to always cope with changes of the times and a steady manufacturing spirit, we develop various business activities focused on “Health and Environment” to create a new unconventional value.
Kowa’s business activities range widely from textile business continued since the foundation to import and export of a wide range of commodities, intermediate trade, research and development of OTC, prescription drugs and optical products, and their production and marketing. Furthermore, we have recently promoted green energy such as green hydrogen and ammonia, a brand called “MINOLON” that realized the world’s first product made of bagworm fiber, and a luxury brand “ESPACIO” originating from Japan. Especially in our “Health Business,” we are striving to contribute to well-being of people for extending their healthy life expectancy and to promote Japanese-style self-care by utilizing the latest AI and IoT technologies. In the “Environment Business,” we are promoting establishment of a supply chain using green and renewable energies and developing businesses considering the “Planetary Health” with the aim of achieving coexistence with all ecosystems and healthy global environment.
With a management vision of “Health and Environment” for a bright future, Kowa Group will contribute to creating a comfortable and affluent society and realizing a sustainable society by enhancing interdivisional communication and cooperation to build a new unconventional business model.
We hope that you will continue to further support Kowa Group’s activities.
Yoshihiro Miwa
President & CEO
Kowa Company, Ltd.
Corporate Profile of Head Quarter
- Corporate Name
- Kowa Company, Ltd.
- Foundation
- December 25, 1894
- President & CEO
- Yoshihiro Miwa
- Capital
- 3,840 million yen
- Sales
- 573,930 million yen(Fiscal year ended March 31, 2024, Kowa Group consolidated)
- Employees
- 7,974 (As of March 2024, Kowa Group consolidated)
- Headquarters
- 6-29, Nishiki 3-chome, Naka-ku, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
- Business Fields
- 【Trading】Import – Export, Intermediate Trade, and Domestic Sales of Textile, Machinery, Construction Materials, Chemicals, and Commodities.
【Manufacturing】R&D and manufacture of OTC , prescription drugs, and medical devices;
manufacture and sales of FA and security vision units, robot system integrator business, hardware R&D of lenses and cameras, software R&D of system, embedded systems and AI, sales of energy saving and energy creating solutions, construction and sales of environmentally friendly architecture.
