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Founded by Yoshinori Ohkoso in 1949, in Tokushima.1
Founded in 1949, the company is commonly known as Nippon Ham (stylized as Nipponham). As a multinational corporation, Nippon Ham operates subsidiaries around the world, including China and the United States. In addition to its main business of meat packing and other food processing, the company owns the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, a professional baseball team in Japan's Pacific League, and owns part of the J.League soccer team, Cerezo Osaka.
From Wikipedia’s article on Nippon Ham, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4
