Number of shares: 29,560,300 Common shares issued and outstanding: 15,021,551 Nippon Paper Industries Pension Fund (9.3%) Japan Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd. (8.1%) Japan Pulp & Paper Business Association (3.0%) Dimensional Fund Advisors LP (2.6%) Nomura Asset Management Co., Ltd. (2.1%) Hokuetsu Corp. (2.0%) Japan Pulp & Paper Employee Stock Ownership Plan (1.9%) Chuetsu Pulp & Paper Co., Ltd. (1.7%) Non-Consolidated 709 Japan Pulp and Paper Company Limited (日本紙パルプ商事株式会社, Nihon Kami Parupu Shōji kabushiki kaisha) is a Japanese global pulp and paper trading company, first in Japan and third in the world by the amount of sales (sales in 2018 : ¥535.49B[2]) after Veritiv Corporation (net sales in 2018 : $8.7B[3]) and Central National-Gottesman (revenue in 2018 : $6.2B[4][5]).
[6][7] Japan Pulp and Paper Company (JPP) distributes paper-related products and also operates real estate business.
[8][9] In 2019, JPP acquired Birmingham-headquartered PREMIER PAPER GROUP (PPG) for ¥5.2B and made PPG into its affiliate with PPG's management team remaining in place and all the 480 employees being kept on following the acquisition.
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