{ "schemaVersion": 1, "organisationId": "O-995b719e2deb4da490b46886a75df2a9", "slug": "itochu", "name": "ITOCHU CORP", "updatedAt": "2026-09-28T14:33:22.912589Z", "sections": [ { "type": "OVERVIEW", "text": "ITOCHU Corporation is a Japanese general trading and investment company founded in 1858 as a linen-trading business. It conducts domestic, import-export and overseas trade and invests in businesses across textiles, machinery, metals and minerals, energy and chemicals, food, general products and real estate, and information and financial services. Its operations extend from sourcing and production to distribution and consumer-facing businesses. [https://www.itochu.co.jp/en/about/profile/index.html][https://www.itochu.co.jp/en/business/index.html]\n\nITOCHU’s corporate mission is “Committed to the Global Good,” while its founding principle of *Sampo-yoshi* calls for business that benefits the seller, buyer and society. The group has a presence in roughly 60 countries and employed more than 110,000 people on a consolidated basis at the end of fiscal 2025. Consolidated revenue for the year ended March 2025 was approximately ¥14.7 trillion. [https://www.itochu.co.jp/en/about/mission/index.html][https://www.itochu.co.jp/en/about/profile/index.html][https://www.itochu.co.jp/en/csr/society/employee/employee_benefits/index.html][https://www.itochu.co.jp/en/files/ar2025E_08.pdf]\n[https://www.itochu.co.jp/en/about/profile/index.html][https://www.itochu.co.jp/en/business/index.html][https://www.itochu.co.jp/en/about/mission/index.html][https://www.itochu.co.jp/en/csr/society/employee/employee_benefits/index.html][https://www.itochu.co.jp/en/files/ar2025E_08.pdf]", "updatedAt": "2026-09-28T14:33:22.912589Z" }, { "type": "PRODUCTS", "text": "ITOCHU supplies textile materials, fabrics and apparel, and provides brand-management and original equipment/design manufacturing (OEM/ODM) services. Its apparel portfolio includes sportswear brands such as DESCENTE, arena and umbro. Its machinery businesses handle automobiles, construction and industrial equipment, ships and aircraft, alongside power-generation, transportation and other infrastructure projects. [https://www.itochu.co.jp/en/business/textile/index.html][https://www.itochu.co.jp/en/business/machinery/index.html]\n\nIn metals and minerals, ITOCHU trades and invests in iron ore, coal, aluminum and other metals and mineral resources. Its energy offerings include crude oil, petroleum products, LNG, LPG and electricity; its chemicals businesses handle synthetic resins, packaging materials, electronic materials, chemical intermediates and pharmaceutical ingredients. These activities combine commodity supply and distribution with investment in resource and energy projects. [https://www.itochu.co.jp/en/business/metal/index.html][https://www.itochu.co.jp/en/business/chemical/index.html]\n\nITOCHU’s food businesses procure, process and distribute agricultural commodities and food products, with activities extending into retail. Its general-products and realty businesses cover building materials, pulp, logistics and real-estate development and management. Its ICT and financial services include IT and mobile communications, business-process outsourcing, digital marketing, payments, lending, asset management and insurance; its consumer-facing businesses also include the FamilyMart convenience-store network. 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[https://www.itochu.co.jp/en/csr/pdf/green_loan_framework_en.pdf][https://www.itochu.co.jp/en/about/profile/index.html] Its international activities include iron-ore interests in Australia and Canada. [P134445938]\n[P134445938][https://www.itochu.co.jp/en/csr/pdf/green_loan_framework_en.pdf][https://www.itochu.co.jp/en/about/profile/index.html]", "updatedAt": "2026-09-28T14:33:22.912589Z" }, { "type": "SEGMENTS", "text": "ITOCHU reports eight business segments. Textile covers fibers, apparel, brands and related retail; Machinery spans automobiles, construction machinery, power, shipping and aerospace; Metals & Minerals focuses on mineral resources and metals, including iron ore and coking coal; and Energy & Chemicals covers energy and chemical products, including energy-storage businesses. [P134445804]\n\nFood encompasses food raw materials and distribution. General Products & Realty includes construction materials, other general products and real estate. ICT & Financial Business covers digital and information-technology services, retail finance and insurance. The 8th focuses on developing consumer-related businesses, including advertising and media, retail finance and healthcare. Verified figures for each segment’s percentage contribution were not available, so no percentages are assigned. [P134445804]\n[P134445804]", "updatedAt": "2026-09-28T14:33:22.912589Z" }, { "type": "HISTORY", "text": "ITOCHU traces its origins to 1858, when Chubei Itoh began trading linen as an itinerant merchant. The business grew from textile trading into a trading company; the present corporation was incorporated in 1949 following a postwar reorganization. [https://www.itochu.co.jp/en/about/history/index.html][https://www.itochu.co.jp/en/about/profile/index.html]\n\nDuring the following decades, ITOCHU expanded beyond textiles into fields including machinery, energy and metals. It adopted the name ITOCHU Corporation in 1992. A later milestone in its consumer business was its investment in FamilyMart: ITOCHU increased its holding through a 2018 tender offer and completed another tender offer in 2020 as part of taking the retailer private. 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