KOA was founded in 1940 by Kazuto Mukaiyama. With the vision of "Bring Sunshine to Ina Valley" and "Farming and Manufacturing in Unison", KOA has been playing the role of a "company" as a social infrastructure and community where people can live enriched lives in various parts of Ina Valley, to protect the land of our ancestors and restore the homeland where where farmers can make living as farmers while living together with their families without being separated.
After overcoming numerous crises, around 1990 we began building a new management system centered on the "KOA Profit System (KPS)," a continuous improvement initiative in which all employees participate to eliminate waste from management. At the same time, KOA has identified the stakeholders who support KOA as 5 stakeholders (shareholders, customers/business partners, employees and their families, local communities, and the mother earth) and has been working to build relationships of trust with them. KPS-1 (improvement activities in the workplace), KPS-2 (improvement of quality and reliability in the automotive market, and improvement of the quality of work and the employees involved), and KPS-3 (Improvement activities to create new value together with our customers by evolving and deepening the fundamental technologies we have cultivated in conjunction with discovering and deeply understanding social issues and problems in the world). In recent years, the SDGs and ESG, which aim for a sustainable society, have been increasingly demanded in corporate management, and I believe that this is exactly what KOA has been practicing.
KOA has chosen listing on the Prime Market of Tokyo Stock Exchange and disclosed our 2024 Medium-Term Management Plan. The business environment surrounding us has reached a point unprecedented in our history. We see these drastic changes as an opportunity and have established the "2030 Vision (Essential Parts of the World)" as our guiding principle. This vision was created by a group of young people, 35 years old on average, who looked back at the founding spirit and KOA's history, created the future, and envisioned the values of KOA's existence and offerings in 2030. KOA's vision, or aspiration, is to create a society with "safety and security" . Safety can be achieved through KOA's technologies and systems, but security requires a relationship of trust with the counterparty. We believe that the value of KOA's existence is to provide society with the "peace of mind that comes from safety and trust.
The journey to realize the 2030 Vision is about to begin. All of us in the KOA Group will do our utmost to become a 100-year-old Company and to be recognized as a company that has grown as much as possible. Thank you for your continued support.
Representative Director, President & CEO
Kosei Mukaiyama