Tokyo, Japan-based seafood company Maruha Nichiro has announced that it will partner with logistics and trading company SENKO Group Holdings as it prepares for a planned 2026 rebrand as Umios.
SENKO said that the partnership would allow the companies to draw on each other's strengths and assets for the purpose of “enhancing mutual corporate value through collaboration primarily in the field of logistics, as well as other non-logistics areas.”
The companies said that key elements of the alliance would include the sharing of SENKO’s transportation and delivery functions, the mutual utilization of logistics bases and knowledge, utilization of SENKO’s human resources assets and training systems, and the joint advancement of strategies related to international operations.
They also said that there would be some non-logistics collaboration conducted by the companies through the partnership, which would include new product development through collaboration with SENKO’s strengths in the areas of after-school childcare, nursing care, and fitness, that Maruha Nichiro would be supplying foodstuff ingredients to various businesses within the two corporations, and that they would engage in other efforts to collaboratively leverage combined assets and strengths.
Both companies share long corporate histories in Japan.
SENKO, founded in 1916 as its forerunner Tomita Shokai, began as a chemical distributor and has grown into a global logistics and trading company; Maruha Nichiro was founded in 1880 as Taiyo Fishery Co. and has grown to become one of the world’s largest seafood companies.
