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Company Profile

Company Name
Kojika Shuzo Co., Ltd.
Year Established
August 28th, 1971
Capital
35 million yen
Address
7312 Aira-cho Kamimyo, Kanoya-shi, Kagoshima 893-1101
Number of Employees
51
Production Volume
8,400KL
Business Lines
Production and sale of shochu
Telephone
0994-58-7171
Fax
0994-58-8363
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Company History

1971.08 In order to expand, lower the cost of mass production, and stabilize and improve quality, the 4 companies from Kanoya-shi, Higashikushira-cho, Aira-cho, and Sata started an equally owned cooperative partnership, followed by the establishment of a production section, etc.
1971.10 Completed construction of the factory using approx. 75 million yen.Produced 430kl (alcohol 25% ABV).
1971.11 Begun selling the “Kojika” Kagoshima shochu brand.
1978.10 Two new companies from Kanoya-shi joined the partnership and the capital increased from 8 million yen to 12 million yen.
1980.06 Produced 1,907kl this year and exceeded 10,000 koku* for the first time.
1983.04 Remodeled and expanded factory (cost of approx. 250 million yen) including the addition of a decompression distillation device, storage tank, and sweet potato steaming device.
1983.10 Increased capital to 30 million yen.
1984.02 Installed semi-automatic paper carton packaging device.
1984.08 Exceeded an annual production of 1,907kl (24,000 koku*).
1985.10 Two-story office was built.
1992.09 Expanded with a new factory on an adjoining site (cost of 750 million yen) and added a fully-automatic bottling line.
1994.09 Fully automated the paper carton packaging line (2,000 pkg./hr).
1994.11 Established Kojika Agricultural Co-Operative to secure the ingredients (sweet potatoes).
1995.08 Achieved an annual production of 5,400kl (30,000 koku*).
1998.2 Received first place at Kagoshima single distillation shochu evaluating event.
2000.08 Achieved annual production of 6,300kl (35,000 koku*).
2001.08 Company’s 30 year anniversary. Production volume increases 15 times since establishment.
2004.10 Due to the completed facility and machinery expansion (totaling 600 million yen), production capacity increased to 9,000kl (25% ABV/50,000 koku*)
2007.09.01 After 36 years operating as a co-operative, the company went public.
2008.08 Fully improved sweet potato storage tank, sorting line, and water-waste disposal unit.
2010.08 39th year of operation (2.3 billion yen in sales/3,0000 koku*).
2010.09 Inauguration of employee stock sharing with 10 million yen worth of newly issued shares, total capital reaches 35 million yen.
2010.09 Completed construction on new warehouse with fully-automated, built in storage rack system.
2011.04 Received excellence award in the single distillation shochu section while representing Kagoshima breweries at the Kumamoto taxation bureau alcohol evaluating event.

* A Koku is a unit used to measure the production output of a sake brewery. One Koku equals 180 liters of sake or one hundred isshobin sake bottles.

 

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