Taisei Corporation

Taisei Corporation
Public
Traded as TYO: 1801
Industry Construction
Founded Tokyo, Japan (October 1, 1873 (1873-10-01))
Founder Okura Kihachiro
Headquarters Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 Yamauchi Takashi (Representative Director, President and Chief Executive Officer)
Products
Revenue 17,558,416,000 USD [1]
378,586,000 USD [1]
213,195,000 USD [1]
Total assets 3,650,187,000 USD [1]
Number of employees
 7,945 [1]
Subsidiaries
Website Taisei Corporation

Taisei Corporation (大成建設株式会社, Taisei Kensetsu Kabushiki-gaisha) (TYO: 1801) is a Japanese corporation which was established in 1873. Its main areas of business are building construction, civil engineering, and real estate development. Taisei's headquarters are in Shinjuku Center Building, Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo.[1]

Taisei has domestic offices in twelve Japanese cities, and 13 major overseas offices.

Overview

Taisei is the oldest of the 5 Japanese so called super general contractors (スーパーゼネコン, suupaa zenekon), the other four being Kajima Corporation, Shimizu Corporation, Takenaka Corporation and Obayashi Corporation. Taisei corporation has its roots in Okura zaibatsu (財閥). Following the dissolution of zaibatsu after World War II, Taisei was restructured to become an employee-owned corporation. Taisei is currently the only employee-owned Japanese large scale general contractor, the four others being owned and controlled by families.

Taisei has successfully constructed many civil and architectural projects including skyscrapers, dams, bridges, tunnels, subways as well as residential housing both in Japan and overseas. In Japan, Taisei is also well known for its disaster resistant general public housing brand Palcon (パルコン).

Noted international projects that Taisei was involved include the expansion of the Palm Islands undersea tunnel in Dubai, the Bosphorus undersea tunnel in Turkey, the New Doha International Airport in Qatar, the Noi Bai International Airport Terminal 2 in Hanoi, the Mega Bridge in Thailand, the Cần Thơ Bridge in Vietnam and the Iloilo International Airport in Iloilo City, Philippines.

International Operations

Headquarters

Taisei's international operations headquarters is located in Shinjuku Center Building, Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo

Overseas Offices

Taiwan

Qatar

U.S.A

Malaysia

Indonesia

India

Pakistan

Vietnam

Myanmar

Sri Lanka

Egypt

Turkey

Subsidiaries and Affiliates

Indonesia

Thailand

Vietnam

China

Philippines

History

Taisei was founded in 1873 as Okuragumi Shokai Company (大倉組商会, Ōkuragumi Shōkai). It became Nippon Doboku Co., Ltd. (有限責任日本土木会社, Yūgen Sekinin Nippon Doboku Kaisha) in 1887, and was renamed Taisei Corporation in 1946.[2]

Taisei completed Japan's first subway in 1927, the new Imperial Palace in 1968, and the Yokohama Bay Bridge in 1989.

Achievements

The following are some notable achievements of Taisei since its establishment in 1873.[3]

Photos

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Taisei Annual Report" (PDF). Taisei. Retrieved 2014-04-15.
  2. ↑ "Taisei History". Taisei. Retrieved 2013-11-02.
  3. ↑ "Taisei Achievements" (PDF). Taisei. Retrieved 2013-11-02.
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