6,249.00
-6(-0.10%)
Currency In JPY
Sector
Consumer Defensive
Industry
Household & Personal Products
Employees
32566
First IPO Date
January 04, 2000
| Name | Title | Pay | Year Born |
| Yoshihiro Hasebe | President, Chief Executive Officer & Representative Director | 199M | 1960 |
| Toru Nishiguchi | Senior Mngng Exec Ofcr, Head of Global & Asia Region of Global Consumer Care Div and Rep Director | 91M | 1961 |
| Masakazu Negoro | Senior Managing Executive Officer, Head of Corporate Finance Unit & Director | 92M | 1960 |
| Akiko Hasegawa | Executive Officer & Global Senior VP of Legal | 0 | N/A |
| Hideo Makino | Senior VP of Accounting & Finance and Executive Officer | 0 | N/A |
| Hiroshi Yamaguchi | Senior Executive Officer & President of Kao (singapore) Private limited | 0 | N/A |
| Hideaki Kubo | Managing Executive Officer & Senior VP of Global Research & Development | 0 | N/A |
| Hideki Mamiya | Senior Executive Officer & Senior VP of Human Capital Development | 0 | N/A |
| Satoru Tanaka | Managing Executive Officer & Senior Vice President of Global Corporate Planning | 0 | N/A |
| Yoshihiro Murakami | Managing Executive Officer & Senior VP of Global Digital Strategy | 0 | N/A |
Kao Corporation develops and sells cosmetic, skin/hair care, human health care, fabric and home care, and chemical products. It operates through five segments: Hygiene and Living Care Business, Health and Beauty Care Business, Life Care Business, Cosmetics Business, and Chemical Business. The Hygiene and Living Care Business segment offers laundry detergents; fabric treatments; kitchen, paper, and house cleaning products; sanitary napkins; and baby diapers. The Health and Beauty Care Business segments provides skin and hair care products, professional hair care products, bath additives, and oral care and thermo products. The Life Care Business segments offers health drinks, as well as hygiene products for commercial use. The Cosmetics Business segment provides counseling and self-selection cosmetic products. The Chemical Business segment offers oleo chemicals; fat and oil derivatives; surfactants; fragrances; water-reducing admixtures; casting sand binders; plastics additives; process chemicals; toners and toner binders; inkjet ink colorants and ink; fine polishing agents and cleaners; and materials and process chemicals. 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.