Company outline and history | Sun Chlorella, for Chlorella, Eleuthero, and Agaricus

Company Outline

Company Name: Sun Chlorella Corporation
Address: 369 Osaka-cho, Karasuma-dori Gojo-sagaru, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto 600-8177 Japan
Representative Director: Futoshi Nakayama / President & CEO
Paid Capital (JPY): 100,000,000
Fiscal Year: March 21 – March 20
Business Category: Development and Production of Health Foods, Marketing and Sales, Import and Export etc.
Affiliates: Sun Chlorella Japan Corporation; Chlorelland Corporation
Affiliates: Sun Chlorella USA Corporation

Sun Chlorella (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.

Sun Chlorella Corporation London Branch

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1960

1969: December Heian Chlorella Jeffcy Co., Ltd. established with a capital of 3 million yen

1970

1971: July Changed company name to Chlorella Sun, and first produced our original Sun Chlorella product

1976: June Began crushing chlorella cell walls

July Began extracting CGF

November Began sales of our signature product Sun Chlorella A

1980

1982: November Sun Chlorella California founded in Los Angeles, USA (now Sun Chlorella USA Corporation)

1986: January Changed name to YSK International Corporation

April Began sales of Sun Eleuthero Tablets

1990

1990: December Ceremony commemorating the 20th anniversary of the company’s founding (Kyoto International Conference Center)

1994: July Granted U.S. patent No. 5330913, “Method of Disrupting the Chlorella Cell Wall by Cell Rupture”

1996: November Sun Chlorella Building 8 (Osaka) completed / Sun Chlorella Building 10 (Fukuoka) completed

2000

2001: May Current corporate headquarters building completed (Kyoto, Karasuma Gojo) / Began sales of Sun Chlorella Agaricus

2006: March Sun Chlorella Shanghai Co., Ltd. established

October Sun Chlorella London branch office established

2010

2013: March Sun Chlorella USA 30th anniversary

December Organic Sun Eleuthero Tablets go on sale in the US (USDA Certified Organic, Non-GMO, Gluten Free)

2016: March Began sales of Astarella Cream in the US / Began sales of “Sun Chlorella A Powder” in the US (Certified Non-GMO, Gluten Free)

April Futoshi Nakayama became President and CEO

November 30th Anniversary of Sun Chlorella Indonesia

2017: April “Organic Sun Eleuthero” was launched in Japan (Acquired Organic JAS Certification)

2018: August “Sun Chlorella A Powder” was launched in Japan (NSF Certified for Sport, Non-GMO, and Gluten-free Certified Products)

2020