KAWASHO CORPORATION - 8110- Profile

Kawasho Corporation. The Group's principal activities are to manufacture trade and sell iron and steel products, energy sources, lumber, machinery, ships, electronics, ship builders, automobile, electrical and other industries. The Group is also involved in trading foodstuffs, raw materials such as canned marine products, beef, pork, chicken and other processed meats, vegetables, canned fruit, fresh vegetables, tomato products, frozen foods. The Group also conducts domestic, overseas and multilateral transactions in a broad spectrum of other products and materials. The operations are carried out through the following divisions; Steel products; Fuels and Chemicals; Machinery; Foods and Merchandise and Construction and others. Steel acctd for 66% of fis 2004 revs; fuels & chemicals, 17%; machinery, 8%; foods & merchandise, 7% & construction & other, 2%