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Company Summary

Company Outline

Company name ZEN-NOH Foods Co., LTD.
Address Minami-Shinjuku SK Bldg. 32-10 Sendagaya5-chome, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
TEL 03-3350-2170
FAX 03-3350-0995
Foundation October 1, 1974
Capital 805 million yen
Shareholders National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations
Annual sales 28 billion yen (FY 2024 results)
Employees 495 (as of the end of March 2025)
Business objectives 1. Sale and processing of agricultural, livestock and fishery products
2. Manufacture and sale of prepared foods and processed foods
3. School meals business
4. Sale of alcohol
5. Sale of rice, etc.
6. Export of agricultural and livestock products and processed foods and alcoholic beverages
7. Import of processed foods
8. Sale of subsistence products
9. Power generation and sales of renewable energy from sun light, etc.
10. Any business incidental to the preceding items
Main Banks Norinchukin Bank, MUFG Bank, Ltd., Sumitomo Mitsui Banking
Subsidiaries POLAR STAR Co., Ltd.


Executive Officers

Representative
Director and
President
Kaneko Chihisa Overall summary
Internal Control Office
Senior Managing Director Yamada Takashi Overall business management
Managing Director Endo Hideo General Sales Supervision
Director Horikawa Hiroyuki Direct Sales Division
Director Eto Hideji General Manager of Administration Division
Kuki Office, Quality Control Division
Director Nagashima Yutaka General Manager of Food Business Division and
Agricultural Products Business Division
Director Nakajima Hiroko Solution Sales Division
Non-Executive
Director
Kawamura Kyosuke Representative Director of POLAR STAR Co., Ltd.
Non-Executive
Director
Ando Hiroshi Manager of Sales Development Department of ZEN-NOH
External Director Ookaze Kaoru Associate Professor, Faculty of Commerce and Economics, Chiba University of Commerce
Full-time Auditor Katsura Eiichiro
Auditor Takai Masatomo Manager of Finance Department of ZEN-NOH
Auditor Ikematsu Tomoki Deputy Manager of Business Planning Department of ZEN-NOH


Businesses

Direct Sales
Department
Mail order sales of general foods and flowers through mass media, Zen-Noh (Economic Federation), Japan Post Group, department stores, mail order companies, and the Internet
Foods Department Sales of products from our own factories (frozen rice dishes, gratins, frozen lunch boxes, etc.) and products consigned by partner companies (processed agricultural and livestock products, etc.) to cooperatives, mass merchandisers, food service companies, etc.
Agricultural
Products
Department
Sales of soya beans, starch, dried shiitake mushrooms, etc. to food manufacturers, co-operatives, etc.
Solution Sales
Department
Development and sales of Zen-Noh Group brand processed foods, developiment of new business partners such as CVS and mass merchandisers.
Kuki Office Commissioned meal service for elementary and junior high schools and kindergartens in Miyashiro-Town, Kazo City, and Shiraoka City Saitama Prefecture.