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Noritake
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Key facts
- Company.name
- Noritake Co., Limited
- Company.native_name
- ノリタケ株式会社
- Company.logo
- Noritake logo.svg
- Company.logo_size
- 250px
- Company.image
- Noritake garden2.jpg
- Company.image_size
- 250px
- Company.image_caption
- Noritake factory in Nagoya
- Company.type
- Public KK
- Company.founder
- Ichizaemon MorimuraToyo Morimura
- Company.foundation
- as Nippon Toki Gomei Kaisha
- Company.location
- Nishi-ku, Nagoya 451-8501, Japan
- Company.key_people
- Hitoshi Tanemura(Chairman)Tadashi Ogura(President)
- Company.industry
- Glass & ceramics
- Company.revenue
- JPY 108.8 billion (FY 2016) (US$ 1 billion) (FY 2016)
- Company.net_income
- JPY 4.1 billion (FY 2016) (US$ 37.9 million) (FY 2016)
- Company.num_employees
- 5,097 (consolidated, as of 31 March 2017)
- Company.area_served
- Worldwide
- Company.parent
- Morimura Group
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Inception
- 1904
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- enterprise
- Country
- Japan
- Headquarters
- Nagoya
- Stock exchange
- Nagoya Stock Exchange
- Legal form
- kabushiki gaisha
- Followed by
- Ngk
- Official website
- www.noritake.co.jp/eng
- Image
- Noritake Chinese chopstick rest.jpg
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is a Japanese porcelain, fine ceramics, and sharpening stone manufacturer headquartered in Nagoya, Japan.
== History == left|thumb|Noritake porcelain, In 1876, Ichizaemon Morimura VI and his brother Toyo founded Morimura Gumi with the intent of establishing overseas trading by a Japanese company. By 1878, Toyo had established a business in New York selling Japanese antiques and other goods, including pottery. The company was renamed Morimura Brothers in 1881. By the 1890s, the company had shifted from retail to wholesale operations and started working on design improvements for the pottery and porcelain ware, which had become one third of its business. By 1899, all of the pottery and porcelain decorating factories in Tokyo and Kyoto had been consolidated in Nagoya, and the company started research on creating European style hard white porcelain in Japan.