Itochu : Announces Deployment of HUNTERxHUNTER Products
January 25, 2012 at 07:02 am
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January 24, 2012
ITOCHU Corporation (headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo;
Masahiro Okafuji, President & CEO; hereinafter "ITOCHU")
announced that it has reached an agreement for product
merchandising rights of the characters appearing in the
manga series HUNTERxHUNTER (by Yoshihiro Togashi) currently
carried in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine (published by
Shueisha, Inc.) and made into a television animation series
with the Nippon Television Music Corporation (headquartered
in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Masatoshi Yoshioka, President) its
rights holder, for a period of one year from the present.
ITOCHU will begin product deployment through its nine
sub-licensees in 11 categories starting with the
spring-summer 2012 collection.
HUNTERxHUNTER is a series geared toward boys that has been
carried in Weekly Shonen Jump since 1998. With this
wide-ranging adventure written by Yoshihiro Togashi, many
young male and female readers strongly connect with Gon,
the boy tackling the grueling Hunter Examination, as well
as the strong passion and actions of other characters also
taking on the exams. To date, a total of more than 56
million copies of comic books in the series have been
printed, making it a huge hit. The series has now been made
into a television animation series and is broadcast by 30
Nippon Television affiliate stations, earning high ratings.
ITOCHU will merchandize all the characters appearing in
HUNTERxHUNTER. The sales channels will be focused on
nationwide mass retailers, specialty stores and discount
stores and sales of 2 billion yen (on a retail sales basis)
are forecast over one year's time.
Sub-Licensees and Product Deployment
Company name
Address
Products
Salonge Corporation
18-1, Utsubo Honmachi 1-chome, Nishi-ku, Osaka
Handkerchiefs
Small Planet Co., Ltd.
2-13, Koyasumachi 2-chome, Hachioji, Tokyo
Socks
Marushin Co., Ltd.
1-5, Obata Minami 1-chome, Moriyama-ku, Nagoya
Towels
Sun Men's Wear Co., LTD
28-5, Higashi Nihonbashi 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
Outerwear
Kowa Company, Ltd.
3-5, Awajicho 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Osaka
Innerwear, cushions, lap blankets
CAITAC Family Inc.
3-12, Showacho, Kita-ku, Okayama
Pajamas
Tomokuni CO., Ltd.
222-1, Sanbonmatsu, Higashi Kagawa-shi, Kagawa
Gloves, hats
Kokka Co., Ltd.
4-6, Bingomachi 2-chome, Chuo-ku, Osaka
Bags
Sun Art Corporation
11-9, Miyake-naka, Matsubara-shi, Osaka
Bags, wallets
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Itochu Corporation is a diversified group organized around 8 areas of activity:
- distribution of food products (34.9% of net sales): frozen food, vegetable oil, sweeteners, sugars, etc.;
- distribution of hydrocarbons (23.3%): hydrocarbons (natural gas, oil products, bioethanol, etc.). The group also develops manufacturing of chemical products activity;
- manufacturing and sale of industrial and construction machines, vehicles and ships (9.7%);
- production of metals and coal (8.5%);
- sale of consumer products (8.4%). The group also develops forest products sale and real estate development activities;
- distribution of computing and telecommunication equipments (7%): data transmission, Internet access, media content broadcasting and mobile telephony equipments. The group also offers financial services;
- sale of textile products (3.6%);
- other (4.6%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Japan (79.5%), Singapore (5.4%), the United States (4.5%), Australia (3.1%), China (2.8%) and other (4.7%).