Profile
Profile
As of March 31, 2010
| Trade Name | Takara Holdings Inc. |
| Head Office | 20 Naginataboko-cho, Shijo-dori Karasuma Higashi-iru, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto 600-8688, Japan |
| Telephone | +81-75-241-5130 |
| Established | September 6, 1925 |
| Issued Capital | ¥13,226 million |
| Company Representative | Hisashi Ohmiya, President |
| Number of Employees | 17 (Non-consolidated) |
| Number of Group Employees | 3,265 |
| Board of Directors （As of June 29, 2010） | Chairman Isao Goto President Hisashi Ohmiya Vice President Tadashi Ohmiya Vice President Toshio Kakimoto Director Masaharu Yano Director Shuichiro Matsuzaki Director Takao Okane Director Daisuke Nakao Director Koichi Nakao External Director Takehiko Ueta |
| Corporate auditors *Standing Auditor （As of June 29, 2010） | Tomio Kamada* Kunihiro Handa* Hideo Tomomura Yoshie Ohta Kozo Kagawa |
Takara Group Business Chronicles
| 1842 | Commencing sake brewing business. |
| 1864 | Shochu and mirin businesses are launched |
| 1912 | Continuous distilled shochu is launched |
| 1925 | Takara Shuzo Co., Ltd. is established. |
| 1933 | Sho-Chiku-Bai Shuzo Co., Ltd. is established and begins manufacture and sale of Sho-Chiku-Bai brand sake. |
| 1949 | Takara Shuzo Co., Ltd. is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. |
| 1957 | Entering the beer market. (Takara Beer is launched.) |
| 1967 | Withdrawal from the beer market. |
| 1970 | The Central Research Institute is completed in Otsu. |
| 1970 | Method for large-scale cultivation of Bunashimeji mushrooms is developed. |
| 1972 | Beginning imported sales of Chinese spirts. |
| 1977 | Takara Shochu Jun is launched. |
| 1979 | Sale of first domestically produced restriction enzymes, research reagents for genetic engineering research, starts. |
| 1983 | Takara Sake USA Inc. is established. |
| 1984 | Takara Can Chu-Hi is launched. |
| 1988 | Exclusive rights to sell gene amplification equipment using the PCR method in Japan are obtained. |
| 1993 | Takara Biotechnology (Dalian) Co., Ltd. is established in China. |
| 1993 | The exclusive worldwide rights to PCR method are obtained. |
| 1995 | The RetroNectin® Method, a highly efficient gene transduction method, is developed. |
| May 1997 | Sale of RetroNectin® reagents used in gene therapy begins worldwide. |
| Apr. 2000 | The long-term management concept Takara Evolution-100 (TE-100) is launched. |
| Jul. 2000 | High-throughout genome sequence center Dragon Genomics Co., Ltd. is established. (Takara Bio acquires Dragon Genomics in October 2002.) |
| Sep. 2001 | Ikkomon (a 100% pure sweet potato shochu) is launched. |
| Oct. 2001 | Shirakabe-gura Brewery is completed at the Nada Plant as the center of Takara’s premium sake business. |
| Apr. 2002 | Holding company Takara Holdings Inc. is established. |
| Mar. 2003 | Production network is revamped. (Takara Shuzo Co., Ltd.) |
| Dec. 2004 | Takara Bio Inc. is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers board. |
| Sep. 2005 | Clontech Laboratories, Inc. is acquired from Becton, Dickinson and Company, of the U.S. (Takara Bio Inc.) |
| Sep. 2006 | The Group’s businesses are reorganized, and Takara Healthcare Inc. is established. |
| May 2008 | The Takara Group's Seventh Medium-Term Management Plan is implemented. |