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About KIMURA UNITY

Our company, since its founding in the 1881 beginning as a storage equipment manufacturing business, has grown and developed with the founding of packaging, shipping, vehicle maintenance, insurance, vehicle leasing and information services.

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March, 1951 Established Kimura Manufacturing, which continues with the container equipment
  product business of the privately owned Kimura case manufacturing branch
May, 1958 Established the Nishiki Plant and Nishiki Sales Office to begin vehicle maintenance
November, 1958 Began the insurance agency
March, 1959 Began the packaging and transport business
May, 1971 Began the information service
February, 1973 Began the vehicle leasing service
April, 1976 Began (used) car sales
November, 1990 Corporate name changed to Kimura Unity Corp. Ltd.
April, 1991 Combined 7 affiliated companies:
  Kimura Unity Kimura Butsuryu Co., Ltd., Kimura Unity Kimura Transport Co., Ltd.,
  Kimura Unity Toyopet Service Shop Co., Ltd., Kimura Unity Kimura Insurance Co., Ltd.,
  Kimura Unity Kimura System Co., Ltd., Kimura Unity Kimura Housing Co., Ltd.,
  Kimura Unity Kimura Honsha Co., Ltd.
  The service for container equipment products, packaging, transport, vehicle leasing,
  vehicle maintenance, traffic accident prevention service, car (used) sales,
  insurance agency, information service is continued
March, 1995 Stocks listed on the 2nd Section of the Nagoya Stock Exchange
October, 1997 Opening of 'Auto Plaza Rabbit' in Inazawa for car maintenance and car parts sales
October, 2001 Stocks listed on the 2nd Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange
November, 2001 Established the joint venture company TK Logistica do brasil in Brazil
April, 2002 Established the 100% invested affiliate company, Business People Co., Ltd.
May, 2002 Established the 100% invested affiliate company, KIMURA,Inc. in South Carolina, U.S.A.
December, 2002 Established the joint venture company TTK Logistics (Thailand) Co., Ltd. in Thailand
April, 2003 U-netrans Co., Ltd. continues with the sales part of the transport department as an absorbed company
August, 2003 Established the 100% invested affiliate company,
  Kimura Lease Services Co., Ltd. (the predecessor: Suzuken Setsubi Co., Ltd.)
June, 2004 Established the joint venture company TK Logistica de Mexico S. de R.L. de C.V.
January, 2005 Established 90% invested affiliate company Tianjin Kimura Shinwa Logistics Co., Ltd.
November, 2005 Established 72% invested affiliate company Guangzhou Guangqi Kimura Shinwa Store
 Co., Ltd.
January, 2006 Marged 100% subsidiary company Kimura Lease Service Co., Ltd.
September,2006 Became listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the Nagoya Stock Exchange
May, 2007 Established Osaka Regional Office in Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture.
October,2007 Established Hanshin Regional Office in Hyogo Prefecture.