Overview
Wholesale Trade

KATO SANGYO CO.,LTD.

Kato Sangyo is a leading Japanese food wholesale distributor headquartered in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, handling a broad range of processed foods, confectionery, chilled/frozen products, and alcoholic beverages through a nationwide branch network. The company operates four core segments: ambient-temperature food distribution, cold-chain food distribution, alcoholic beverage distribution, and international operations spanning Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, and China. In addition to wholesale, the group provides logistics services through dedicated subsidiaries and engages in food manufacturing, processing, and food service franchise operations.

Market Cap
¥210B
US$1.34B
EV
¥96.8B
US$617M
Stock¥6,970▲+1.31%
US$1 = ¥156.80 (2026-10-23)
LTM EV/EBITDA
3.9
x
LTM EV/EBIT
4.8
x
LTM PER
12.8
x
LTM PBR
1.2
x
Stock vs TOPIX (1Y, base=100)vs TOPIX ▼-5.1%pt
100
Oct 24, 25 – Oct 23, 26StockTOPIX
MC → EV Bridge
210BUS$1.34BMarket Cap14.4BUS$91.7M+ Debt74.0BUS$472M− Cash62.3BUS$397M− Inv. Sec.8.35BUS$53.2M+ NCI96.8BUS$617MEV
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Performance & Balance
Revenue 5Y (¥B)
1,137US$7.25B'21/91,036US$6.60B'22/91,099US$7.01B'23/91,170US$7.46B'24/91,214US$7.74B'25/9
EBITDA 5Y (¥B)
16.0US$102M'21/917.9US$114M'22/921.3US$136M'23/922.3US$142M'24/924.0US$153M'25/9
Net Income 5Y (¥B)
8.39US$53.5M'21/911.3US$71.9M'22/912.0US$76.5M'23/914.5US$92.2M'24/913.2US$84.4M'25/9
Capital Structure
92%
EquityD/E 0.08xDebt
Liquidity vs Debt 5Y (¥B)▲ Net Cash
CashInv. Sec.Debt
131US$833M15.5US$98.6M'21/9132US$840M14.8US$94.3M'22/9142US$902M15.3US$97.7M'23/9149US$950M14.6US$93.3M'24/9138US$880M13.4US$85.5M'25/9
Shareholders
Top 10 hold 37.9%
1
The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Ltd. (Trust Account)
10.42%
2
MITSUI & CO.,LTD. (Standing Proxy: Custody Bank of Japan, Ltd.)
4.96%
3
Plus Double Co., Ltd.
4.24%
4
Mitsubishi Corporation
2.96%
5
Kato Kogyo Co., Ltd.
2.81%
6
Kewpie Corporation
2.78%
7
House Foods Group Inc.
2.77%
8
KAGOME CO.,LTD.
2.42%
9
Custody Bank of Japan, Ltd. (Trust Account)
2.25%
10
THE CHASE MANHATTAN BANK,N.A. LONDONSECS LENDING OMNIBUS ACCOUNT (Standing Proxy: Mizuho Bank, Ltd.)
2.25%
Management
12 officers
Kazuya KATO
Representative Director, President and Executive Officer
Mar 1994 Joined the Company Dec 1995 Director, General Manager, President's Office Oct 1996 Director, General Manager, Logistics Department Dec 1997 Director, in charge of Logistics; General Manager, Sales Planning Department Apr 1999 Director, in charge of Logistics; Assistant to Sales Dec 1999 Managing Director, in charge of Logistics; Assistant to Sales Mar 2000 Managing Director, General Manager, Systems HQ; Assistant General Manager, Sales HQ Dec 2001 Senior Managing Director, General Manager, Administration HQ, Systems HQ and Related Businesses HQ Dec 2003 Representative Director, President Dec 2012 Representative Director, President; General Manager, Systems HQ Dec 2016 Representative Director, President; in charge of Information Systems Dec 2019 Representative Director, President Dec 2023 Representative Director, President and Executive Officer (current)
1969-07-10
Takanao NAKAMURA
Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer; General Manager, Sales HQ; in charge of Group Sales
Apr 1991 Joined the Company Oct 2008 General Manager, Nagoya Branch, Chubu Branch Office Apr 2011 General Manager, Wide-Area Distribution Department Dec 2013 Executive Officer; General Manager, Wide-Area Distribution Department Dec 2014 Executive Officer; General Manager, Wide-Area Distribution Department and Brand Business Department Dec 2015 Director; Assistant to General Manager, Sales HQ; General Manager, Wide-Area Distribution Department and Brand Business Department Aug 2017 Director; Assistant to General Manager, Sales HQ; in charge of Wide-Area Distribution; General Manager, Brand Business Department Dec 2018 Managing Director; Assistant to General Manager, Sales HQ; in charge of Wide-Area Distribution, Brand Business and Overseas Business Apr 2019 Managing Director; Assistant to General Manager, Sales HQ; in charge of Wide-Area Distribution, Brand Business and Overseas Business Dec 2019 Managing Director; Deputy General Manager, Sales HQ; in charge of Wide-Area Distribution, Brand Business and Overseas Business Dec 2021 Managing Director; Deputy General Manager, Sales HQ; in charge of Wide-Area Distribution, Brand Business and Chubu Region Dec 2022 Managing Director; Deputy General Manager, Sales HQ; in charge of Wide-Area Distribution and Chubu Region Dec 2023 Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer; General Manager, Sales HQ; in charge of Group Sales (current)
1967-09-07
Keisuke HIBI
Director, Managing Executive Officer; General Manager, Logistics HQ; in charge of Logistics Business
Apr 1989 Joined the Company Oct 2010 General Manager, Logistics Department Dec 2014 Executive Officer; Deputy General Manager, Systems HQ; General Manager, Logistics Department Dec 2016 Director; General Manager, Logistics HQ; General Manager, Logistics Department Dec 2018 Director; General Manager, Logistics HQ; General Manager, Logistics Department; in charge of Logistics Business Jan 2019 Director; General Manager, Logistics HQ; in charge of Logistics Business Dec 2023 Director, Managing Executive Officer; General Manager, Logistics HQ; in charge of Logistics Business (current)
1965-12-28
Shigenori TSUGIE
Director, Managing Executive Officer; General Manager, Administration HQ; in charge of Group Administration
Apr 1995 Joined the Company Apr 2012 Department Manager, General Affairs Department (seconded to K Low-Temperature Foods Co., Ltd.) Dec 2015 General Manager, General Affairs Department and Environmental Management Department Dec 2016 Executive Officer; General Manager, General Affairs Department and Environmental Management Department Dec 2017 Director; Deputy General Manager, Administration HQ; General Manager, General Affairs Department and Environmental Management Department Apr 2018 Director; Deputy General Manager, Administration HQ; General Manager, General Affairs Department Dec 2018 Director; General Manager, Administration HQ; in charge of Group Administration Dec 2021 Director; General Manager, Administration HQ; in charge of Group Administration and Overseas Business Oct 2022 Director; General Manager, Administration HQ; in charge of Group Administration and Overseas Business; General Manager, General Affairs Department Dec 2023 Director, Senior Executive Officer; General Manager, Administration HQ; in charge of Group Administration; General Manager, General Affairs Department Jan 2025 Director, Senior Executive Officer; General Manager, Administration HQ; in charge of Group Administration Dec 2025 Director, Managing Executive Officer; General Manager, Administration HQ; in charge of Group Administration (current) (Concurrent Position) Nov 2018 Representative Director, President, Kato SC Asia Investment Co., Ltd. (current)
1972-09-24
Takashi ONISHI
Director, Managing Executive Officer; General Manager, South Kinki Branch
May 1992 Joined the Company Feb 2015 General Manager, Matsuyama Branch, Chugoku-Shikoku Branch Office Apr 2019 General Manager, Chugoku-Shikoku Branch Office Dec 2019 Executive Officer; General Manager, Chugoku-Shikoku Branch Office Dec 2021 Director; General Manager, Chugoku-Shikoku Branch Office May 2022 Director; General Manager, Chugoku-Shikoku Branch Office; General Manager, Hiroshima Branch Oct 2022 Director; General Manager, Chugoku-Shikoku Branch Office Dec 2023 Director, Senior Executive Officer; General Manager, Chugoku-Shikoku Branch Office Dec 2025 Director, Senior Executive Officer; General Manager, South Kinki Branch Dec 2025 Director, Managing Executive Officer; General Manager, South Kinki Branch (current)
1967-10-13
Yusuke YASOGAWA
Director
Apr 1989 Joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation Jan 1999 Joined Boston Consulting Group K.K. May 2013 Joined P&E Directions Inc.; Director Aug 2015 Founded Y-Knot Inc.; Representative Director (current) Dec 2015 Director of the Company (current) Sep 2018 Outside Director, unerry, Inc. (current) Feb 2019 CEO, MYCARE Hawaii Inc. (current)
1965-10-22
Riko KAIHO
Director
Sep 2000 Joined Fidelity Securities Co., Ltd.; General Manager, Online Securities and New Business Promotion Department Sep 2006 Joined Hitachi Consulting Co., Ltd.; Senior Director, Financial Services Business Unit May 2010 Joined IBM Japan, Ltd.; Partner, Global Business Services Financial Services Unit Jun 2015 Joined EY Advisory & Consulting Co., Ltd.; Life Sciences Director Oct 2017 Founded Office Kaiho; Representative (current) Dec 2018 Director of the Company (current) Jul 2020 Senior Director, Service Delivery, Svoda Software Jan 2024 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, JURO SCIENCES Co., Ltd. (current) Mar 2024 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, SFG SCIENCES Co., Ltd. (current)
1962-01-29
Hidehiko AOKI
Director
Apr 1989 Joined Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.; Investment Research Department Jan 1997 Assigned to Nomura Securities International, Inc. (U.S.); Research Department Jul 2000 Joined Goldman Sachs Securities Co., Ltd., Tokyo; Retail Sector Analyst; Vice President Jul 2005 Joined Merrill Lynch Japan Securities Co., Ltd.; Head of Retail Sector Research; Managing Director Sep 2017 Joined Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.; Head of Consumer Team, Equity Research Department; Managing Director Sep 2020 Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Tokyo University of Science (current) Dec 2021 Director of the Company (current) Aug 2022 Outside Director, Butsuryu Kakumei Co., Ltd. (current) Jun 2023 Outside Director, World Co., Ltd. (current)
1967-03-05
Masato IKEMURA
Full-time Audit & Supervisory Board Member
Apr 2020 Joined the Company Apr 2022 General Manager, Audit Office Dec 2023 Audit & Supervisory Board Member (current)
1964-07-23
Yuji KUREDA
Full-time Audit & Supervisory Board Member
May 2016 Joined the Company Mar 2017 General Manager, Accounting Department Dec 2018 General Manager, Accounting Department; General Manager, Related Businesses Coordination Office Apr 2022 General Manager, Accounting Department Dec 2025 Audit & Supervisory Board Member (current)
1964-10-21
Koji YAMAMURA
Audit & Supervisory Board Member
Apr 1985 Joined The Nippon Kogyo Bank, Ltd. Jun 1991 Joined Yamamura Glass Co., Ltd.; General Manager, Administration Department Jun 1994 Director; Deputy General Manager, Administration HQ May 1998 Managing Director; General Manager, Administration HQ Oct 1998 Managing Director; General Manager, Administration HQ, Nihon Yamamura Glass Co., Ltd. Apr 2002 Senior Managing Director, Nihon Yamamura Glass Co., Ltd. Jun 2003 Representative Director, President and COO, Nihon Yamamura Glass Co., Ltd. Jun 2005 Representative Director, President, CEO and COO, Nihon Yamamura Glass Co., Ltd. Dec 2012 Audit & Supervisory Board Member of the Company (current) Jun 2017 Representative Director, President and Executive Officer, Nihon Yamamura Glass Co., Ltd. Apr 2025 Chairman of the Board, Nihon Yamamura Glass Co., Ltd. (current)
1962-09-25
Asuka NAKAMURA
Audit & Supervisory Board Member
Oct 1997 Joined Asahi & Co. (now Azsa LLC) Jan 2001 Joined PricewaterhouseCoopers Financial Advisory Services Co., Ltd. (now PwC Advisory LLC) Nov 2007 Joined Houlihan Lokey K.K. Jan 2012 Joined Tokyo Kyodo Accounting Office Oct 2013 Joined Shin Nihon & Co. (now EY ShinNihon LLC) Jan 2015 Joined Azsa LLC Jun 2016 Partner, Azsa LLC Dec 2022 Outside Audit & Supervisory Board Member, Mynavi Corporation (current) Dec 2022 Representative Director, Asu Mirai Institute Co., Ltd. Dec 2022 Representative, Asuka Nakamura Certified Public Accountant and Tax Accountant Office (current) Jun 2023 Outside Director, Polaris Holdings Co., Ltd. Dec 2024 Audit & Supervisory Board Member of the Company (current) Jun 2025 Outside Director (Audit and Supervisory Committee Member), Fujikura Ltd. (current)
1973-12-15
Large Shareholding Reports
Fidelity Management & Research Company LLC
2026-06-09
2.79%
FMR LLC
2026-06-09
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FMR LLC
2026-05-12
5.24%
Disclosures
No disclosures
Primary Source Filings
TDnet
2026-08-07
Q3 Earnings Flash
FY ending Sep 2026
EDINET
2026-06-09
Large Shareholding Report
EDINETAmended
2026-06-09
Change Report
EDINET
2026-05-15
Semi-Annual Securities Report
Period: Oct 2025 – Sep 2026
EDINET
2026-05-12
Large Shareholding Report
TDnet
2026-02-06
Q1 Earnings Flash
FY ending Sep 2026
EDINET
2025-12-22
Annual Securities Report
Period: Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
TDnet
2025-08-08
Q3 Earnings Flash
FY ending Sep 2025
EDINET
2025-05-15
Semi-Annual Securities Report
Period: Oct 2024 – Sep 2025
TDnet
2025-02-07
Q1 Earnings Flash
FY ending Sep 2025
EDINET
2024-12-23
Annual Securities Report
Period: Oct 2023 – Sep 2024
EDINET
2024-05-15
Quarterly Securities Report
Period: Jan 2024 – Mar 2024
EDINET
2024-02-14
Quarterly Securities Report
Period: Oct 2023 – Dec 2023
EDINET
2023-12-25
Annual Securities Report
Period: Oct 2022 – Sep 2023
EDINET
2023-08-14
Quarterly Securities Report
Period: Apr 2023 – Jun 2023
EDINET
2023-05-15
Quarterly Securities Report
Period: Jan 2023 – Mar 2023
EDINET
2023-02-14
Quarterly Securities Report
Period: Oct 2022 – Dec 2022
EDINET
2022-12-26
Annual Securities Report
EDINET
2022-08-12
Quarterly Securities Report
EDINET
2022-05-13
Quarterly Securities Report
EDINET
2022-02-10
Quarterly Securities Report
EDINET
2021-12-20
Annual Securities Report
EDINET
2021-08-13
Quarterly Securities Report
EDINET
2021-05-14
Quarterly Securities Report
EDINET
2021-02-12
Quarterly Securities Report
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