# SUMITOMO FORESTRY CO LTD

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## Overview

Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd. is a Japan-based group whose businesses center on wood, housing and real estate. Its activities span forest management, timber and building materials, homebuilding, and overseas housing and real estate development. Founded in 1691, the company operates internationally, with housing and real estate activities in the United States, Australia, Europe and Asia. [1](https://sfc.jp/english/corporate/profile/)[2](https://sfc.jp/english/sustainability/business/overall.html)[3](https://sfc.jp/english/sustainability/business/overseas.html)

The company’s philosophy is to use wood as a healthy, environmentally friendly resource to provide services that contribute to a sustainable and prosperous society. In the year ended December 2025, it reported consolidated net sales of approximately ¥2.27 trillion and employed 27,613 people across the group. [4](https://sfc.jp/english/corporate/philosophy/)[5](https://sfc.jp/english/ir/library/pdf/results2025_4q.pdf)[6](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P148013463)
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## Products & services

Sumitomo Forestry’s housing products include custom-built wooden homes, rental apartments and ready-built detached houses. Its Japanese home lineup includes MyForest, a custom-designed home; GRAND LIFE, a single-storey home; and Forest Selection, which offers a choice of more than 1,000 plans with customization options. The company also provides remodeling, landscaping, real-estate brokerage and property-management services. [7](https://sfc.jp/ie/lineup/)[8](https://sfc.jp/english/business/housing/)

Its proprietary Big-Frame (BF) construction method uses large timber columns and metal-touch connections to support flexible floor plans while providing structural strength. The BF column is 560 mm wide. Beyond homes, the company distributes timber and building materials and manufactures products including plywood, MDF, particleboard, doors, windows and wooden interior fittings. [9](https://sfc.jp/ie/technology/whatisbf/)[10](https://sfc.jp/ie/technology/taishin/)[11](https://sfc.jp/english/sustainability/pdf/pdf/2024_report_digest_en.pdf)

Overseas offerings include home construction and real-estate development, while its environment and resources activities include forestry and biomass power generation. In 2024, housing accounted for approximately 26.4% of consolidated sales, global construction and real estate for 60.3%, and timber and building materials for 11.3%; these are business-segment shares, not sales shares of individual products. [12](https://sfc.jp/english/business/overseashousing/america/)[13](https://sfc.jp/english/business/overseashousing/australia/)[14](https://sfc.jp/english/business/environment/)[15](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T16206747)
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## Geographic presence

Sumitomo Forestry is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Its operations are concentrated in Japan, the United States and Australia, with additional activities in Southeast Asia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. In Japan, it operates a nationwide housing business and manages company-owned forests in Hokkaido, Wakayama, Shikoku and Kyushu. Its U.S. housing business spans multiple states, while its Australian housing network covers both eastern and western Australia. [1](https://sfc.jp/english/corporate/profile/)[16](https://sfc.jp/ie/office/)[17](https://sfc.jp/treecycle/domestic_forest/)[12](https://sfc.jp/english/business/overseashousing/america/)[13](https://sfc.jp/english/business/overseashousing/australia/)

The scale of its overseas housing business is reflected in fiscal 2025 sales of ¥786.1 billion at U.S. housing companies and ¥337.8 billion at Australian housing companies. Its U.S. real estate and FITP businesses reported a further ¥207.6 billion and ¥55.3 billion, respectively. These are business-line figures, not a complete country-by-country breakdown of consolidated revenue. Beyond those principal markets, the company has housing or development activities in Indonesia and Vietnam, real estate activity in the U.K., and forestry operations in New Zealand. [18](https://sfc.jp/english/ir/library/statements/pdf/forecast2025_4q.pdf)[19](https://sfc.jp/english/business/overseashousing/asia/)[20](https://sfc.jp/english/business/overseashousing/europe/)[21](https://sfc.jp/english/sustainability/environment/forest/overseas.html)
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## Business segments

Sumitomo Forestry is moving from four reported business segments to five from FY2026, separating its former Global Construction and Real Estate segment into Overseas Housing and Real Estate. The other segments are Timber and Building Materials, Housing, and Environment and Resources. On the five-segment presentation of FY2025 sales to external customers, Overseas Housing accounted for approximately 53% of consolidated sales; Housing, 24%; Real Estate, 11%; Timber and Building Materials, 10%; and Environment and Resources, 1%. Other activities accounted for less than 1%, with a small reconciliation adjustment. [22](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P141729771)[23](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=T16206301)

Overseas Housing covers homebuilding outside Japan. Real Estate focuses on property development in Japan and overseas, including medium- and large-scale wooden construction. The domestic Housing segment includes custom-built homes, apartment construction, spec homes, renovations and related property and landscaping services. Timber and Building Materials purchases, manufactures, processes and sells wood and building products, while Environment and Resources comprises forestry and renewable-energy generation. [24](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P141729668)[25](https://app.finbar.com/go?id=P141729607)
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## Company history

Sumitomo Forestry traces its origins to 1691, when the Sumitomo family opened the Besshi Copper Mine and began managing forests to supply timber for its operations. The present company was incorporated in 1948, following the postwar reorganization of Sumitomo’s forestry business. In 1955, two successor companies merged to form Sumitomo Forestry Co., Ltd. [26](https://sfc.jp/en/information/company/history/)[1](https://sfc.jp/english/corporate/profile/)[27](https://sfc.jp/information/company/history/)

The company began importing timber in 1956 and expanded wood-products manufacturing overseas with a plywood company in Indonesia in 1970. It entered the custom-built detached-housing business in 1975 and began MDF production in New Zealand in 1986. Its housing business later expanded beyond Japan: Sumitomo Forestry entered the U.S. housing market in 2003 and acquired a stake in Texas-based homebuilder Bloomfield Homes in 2013. [28](https://sfc.jp/information/ir/library/annual/pdf/ar_e_2020_3.pdf)[8](https://sfc.jp/english/business/housing/)[12](https://sfc.jp/english/business/overseashousing/america/)[29](https://sfc.jp/english/news/pdf/20170428_02_e.pdf)
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