History of the KOKUYO Group

History of the KOKUYO Group
Evolution of the Campus notebook
Sales of stationery pad with high
quality paperboard begin.
1932
1991
Sales of File Box - FS
begin.
Sales of home
cabinets begin.
Sales of Keshipita
begin.
1991
1927
1974
Sales of Pritt begin.
1956
1983
1965
Sales of Survey Field
Book begin.
1908
Third-generation
Campus notebooks
available
1983
Sales of Tube Files
begin.
Sales of Flat Files begin.
1964
Production of Wacho
(Japanese-style account
ledgers) begins.
Second-generation
Campus notebooks
available
1975
Sales of Scrapbooks
begin.
1963
Domestic production of
ledger paper begins.
First-generation Campus
notebooks available
Entered the album market.
Production of Western-style
account ledgers as off-the-shelf
products begins.
Sales of Gavatte Files
begin.
Yao Plant is completed.
Introduced an automated
slip-production machine
(Bielomatik).
1994
Sales of the Lonely
Little Fox (original
character) begin.
1970
Sales of Tube Files
(PP) begin.
1961
KOKUYO Jewelry
Members is formed.
1913
1905
1968
1917
1957
Company is
KOKUYO trademark is adopted.
1914
founded. Production of vouchers begins.
1986
1976
1959
1953
Japan's first
forklift is
adopted.
National KOKUYO
Exclusive Retailers
Organization is
formed.
1966
1961
Tokyo Showroom/KOKUYO
Hall are completed.
1982
1972
Yao Automated
Listed on the First Section
Rack Warehouse of both the Tokyo and
is completed.
Osaka Stock Exchange.
New company building for the Tokyo Branch
Office is established (designed by Kenzō Tange).
1979
New company building
in Shinagawa, Tokyo, is
completed.
Mie Plant is completed.
1993
Shibayama Plant
is completed.
Furniture business is launched
(sales of filing cabinets begin).
1994
Sales of desks and chairs
for students begin.
Sales of BioTech chairs
begin.
Creative collaboration
for Miss Blanche (Shiro
Kuramata
designs).
Sales of Dynafit chairs
begin.
Sales of KuruKuru Meka
begin.
1960
Sales of steel desks
begin.
1975
Kashiwarashi Plant is
completed (to facilitate
in-house production of
steel products).
1979
1965
Sales of rotating
office chairs begin.
1983
Sales of theater
chairs begin.
Sales of museum cases
begin.
1973
1988
Sales of the MX Desk Systems
begin.
Sales of Beje
begin.
1981
1971
Construction materials
business is launched (sales of
office dividers begin).
1988
1988
1984
1995
History of work-style proposals
Entire head office building is
converted into a showroom.
Office laboratory
opens.
Inaugural issue of
ECIFFO is launched.
The Kasumigaseki Office is opened
1969
1986
1988
1997
(non-territorial office concept is introduced).
Store business is launched
(sales of supplies for stores
and restaurants begin).
1966
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Sales of will kits
begin.
Sales of Campus Junior Pencils
begin.
Sales of Harinacs Press
staplers begin.
2011
Fourth-generation
Campus notebooks
available
Fifth-generation
Campus notebooks
available
40th anniversary of
Campus notebooks
2009
Sales of Airofit scissors
begin.
Sales of CamiApp
products begin.
Sales of Soft Ring®
notebooks begin
2014
2000
2011
Initiatives regarding
universal design are
commenced.
2009
2015
Sales of KAO
notebooks begin.
Sales of Dot Liners
begin.
Sales of Harinacs
staplers begin.
2011
Sales of
Jibun-Techo
handbooks Sales of Karu-Cut
begin.
tape cutters begin.
2015
1998
Sales of Punyo
Punyo Pins begin.
2008
2005
2012
2009
2013
2000
Kaunet is
launched.
Sales of Kado-Keshi
erasers begin.
Sales of NeoCritz
cases begin.
Sales of ReEDEN
notebooks begin.
Stationery-related
business
KOKUYO Camlin is
established.
Actus joins
KOKUYO Group.
2011
2006
2000
2006
2003
2003
2002
Sales of SIMPLEX
begin.
2006
2005
KOKUYO Design
Award is launched.
Corporate logo is
redesigned.
100th anniversary
of the company.
2008
2007
2012
Heartland is established.
Shanghai plant for
producing notebooks
is completed.
2006
2015
Sales of Campus
Desks begin.
Sales of INSPINE
chairs begin.
2010
2001 Sales of WORKGATE
Sales of C Square units begin.
workstations begin.
1998
2003
Furniture-related
business
Sales of Campus BLOCK
and Campus BOARD
begin.
2000
2005
2013
Vietnamese plant is completed.
Sales of nursing
carts begin.
Mail-order and
retail business
The KiSPA catalog
is inaugurated.
The Eco-Batsu mark is
commenced.
Sales of EDIA
systems begin.
Sales of AGATA
chairs begin.
2013
2007
The Yui-no-Mori Project
is commenced.
KOKUYO K Heart is
established.
Kaucore is
launched.
2008
Sales of FUBI furniture
made with timber from
forest thinning begin.
2013
HARMONii work
stations unveiled at
Orgatec.
2010
2015
Sales of Madre lobby chairs for local
government reception areas begin.
2011
2009
Eco-Live Office
Shinagawa is opened.
The Worksite
Creative Lounge
The Shanghai
Laboratory is opened. MOV is opened. Showroom is opened.
The Umeda Live Office/
Umeda Showroom are
opened.
Shinagawa Live Office
SHIPP is opened.
Nagoya Live Office
Link Tube is opened.
2008
2012
2013
2014
2015
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