Our History

Kadoya Mills is founded in 1858 on Shodoshima Island, Kagawa Prefecture. The production and sale of sesame oil begin.

Kadoya Mills and Ozawa Shoten, its distributor in eastern Japan (now Ozawa & Company Limited), jointly establish Kadoya Sesame Mills Incorporated to expand the business. The head office opens at 357, 1-chome, Nishiosaki, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo.

The Osaka Branch opens as a sales base.

A 39,600 m² site is acquired at Tonosho Port on Shodoshima, and a new factory is completed to support business growth.

KADOYA begins selling Sei Goma Abura, a 100% sesame oil, for household use.

With a newly designed label, Pure Sesame Oil goes on sale for household use.

The Fukuoka Branch opens.

Branches open in Sapporo, Sendai and Nagoya.

The Hiroshima Branch opens.

Branches open in Matsumoto, Kanazawa and Takamatsu.

The Kanazawa Branch closes.

The company name is changed to Kadoya Sesame Mills Incorporated.

The Sagamihara Sales Office opens.

The Sapporo, Hiroshima, Matsumoto and Takamatsu branches become sales offices.

The Kumagaya Sales Office opens.

The Fukuoka Branch becomes a sales office.

The Kumagaya Sales Office moves to Omiya and is renamed the Omiya Sales Office.

The Sagamihara Sales Office closes.

The head office moves to 8-2-8 Nishigotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo.

The company’s shares are registered for over-the-counter trading with the Japan Securities Dealers Association.

The head office’s Tokyo Sales Department becomes the independent Tokyo Branch.

The share trading unit is reduced from 1,000 shares to 100 shares.

ISO 9002 certification is obtained, followed by a transition to ISO 9001 in August 2003.

The Konjakukan Museum, a heritage gallery, opens at the Shodoshima Factory.

The company ends its over-the-counter registration with the Japan Securities Dealers Association and lists on the JASDAQ Securities Exchange.

The Omiya Sales Office is merged into the Tokyo Branch. The Matsumoto Sales Office moves to Nagano and is renamed the Nagano Sales Office.

A logistics warehouse opens in Kobe.

The Nagano Sales Office merges with the Tokyo Branch, while the Takamatsu Sales Office merges with the Hiroshima Sales Office.

Following the merger of the JASDAQ and Osaka securities exchanges, the company is listed on OSE JASDAQ, subsequently known as TSE JASDAQ Standard.

The company lists on the Second Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Kosher certification is obtained.

The company delists from OSE JASDAQ Standard.

The company lists on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

The Hiroshima and Fukuoka sales offices become branches.

ISO 9001 certification is voluntarily relinquished.

The Shodoshima Factory obtains FSSC 22000 certification.

Halal certification is obtained.

The Kobe facility closes.

KADOYA acquires shares in Katagi Foods Co., Ltd., making it a subsidiary.

KADOYA wins a bid for an 83,823 m² site for a new factory in Sodegaura, Chiba Prefecture.

The Sodegaura Factory is completed.

Sukoyaka Sesame Oil is launched as a Food for Specified Health Uses (FOSHU). The Sodegaura Factory obtains FSSC 22000 certification.

The Sendai Branch and Katagi Foods’ Sendai Sales Office move into a shared new office in Aoba-ku, Sendai. Katagi Foods’ Fukuoka Sales Office is consolidated with KADOYA’s existing Fukuoka Branch at the latter’s premises.

Following the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s market restructuring, the company moves from the First Section to the Standard Market.

The head office and Tokyo Branch move to 5-1-18 Kitashinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo.

Overseas subsidiary Kadoya America Inc. is established.