About NIPPON ACCESS
To contribute to people’s affluent lifestyles, we are committed to being accessible to our customers.
We are not bound by conventional food wholesalers’ preconceived notions, but rather provide borderless connections (access) to people, goods, and services.
We provide a system that makes advanced use of information and enables timely access.
Through these efforts, we hope to evolve Japan’s food culture and make it more delicious. Our company name “NIPPON ACCESS” reflects this determination. We will continue to provide “A taste that touches your heart” through total coordination of food distribution services, always from the viewpoint of consumers, with our greatly expanded growth potential, know-how, and passion.
Key phrases that describe NIPPON ACCESS
As a comprehensive wholesaler of food products, NIPPON ACCESS meets the diverse needs of its customers with comprehensive “merchandising functions,” high-quality “logistics functions,” precise “marketing functions,” and unique “next-generation business solutions” that make full use of its accumulated know-how.
*Figures are as of March 31, 2024
We boast industry-leading sales of low-temperature (frozen and chilled) products.
We work with a wide range of businesses that handle food, including retailers such as supermarkets, convenience stores, drugstores, and discount stores, as well as food service companies such as cafes, restaurants, and taverns.
Through our business with many manufacturers, we are able to meet the needs of our customers.
We handle a variety of products including chilled foods, frozen foods, processed foods, alcoholic beverages, confectioneries, fresh produce, and non-food items.
In April 2020, we issued the NIPPON ACCESS SDGs Declaration and are developing various activities to help create a sustainable society from the four perspectives of “Food safety and security,” “Global environment,” “Working environment,” and “Social contributions.”
As a member of the ITOCHU Group, NIPPON ACCESS utilizes its network to procure raw materials and processed foods domestically and internationally, and to launch new food-related businesses, thereby expanding the scope of our business domain at an ever-increasing pace. Furthermore, by fully utilizing the largest domestic logistics network in the industry, NIPPON ACCESS is committed to stabilizing and developing the food distribution business for ITOCHU Group.
NIPPON ACCESS is working to become a “full-line wholesaler” by expanding priority categories such as confectioneries, alcoholic beverages, and non-food items, while strengthening chilled and frozen products, which have always been a strong point of the company.
To be a wholesaler of the “future” and the “next generation,” NIPPON ACCESS will continue to evolve to create new added value while utilizing the latest digital technology and the various strengths we have built up.
At NIPPON ACCESS, each and every employee is engaged in his or her work under our corporate philosophy, always with a sense of responsibility as a person who is responsible for food lifelines. Because our company has grown through repeated mergers and restructurings, we place great importance on the corporate philosophy reconstructed by our employees themselves in order to align their various aspirations.
