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Kao Corporation was established in 1887, Kao formerly Western grocery store, "Nagase store" (flower Wang Shi alkaline), which sells American-made soap, cosmetics and soap, and Japan imported stationery, business people Nagase Kao Fu Lang. Kao products currently involved in more than 600 kinds of cosmetics, mostly polymer chemicals.

August 1993, Kao first enterprise in China - the "Shanghai Kao Co., Ltd." was born in Shanghai, which began a Kao and Chinese consumers to share research results, create beauty and clean every day career development process. Kao in Japan as a continuation of centuries-old, Kao in China, also adhering to the "creation of quality products," the purpose, focus on carefully analyze and understand the needs of Chinese consumers and lifestyle changes in product development. After years of credit management, Kao's China already has a "Biore", "music and elegant," "poetry fun", "Ba Jie", "Kao", "runaway" and many other high quality known brand , and its impressive performance in their respective fields, have won the support and trust of Chinese consumers.

Kao in 1995 to further expand business in China to the chemical industry, worked in Zhongshan, Guangdong, Shanghai and set up factories, and gradually realized Kao alone developed local production of chemical raw materials, but also brought Kao Group cutting-edge field of chemical industry R & D results.

Kao Group Jun. 2002 Kao was established in Shanghai (China) Investment Co., Ltd., and in 2004 will be known in Japan, selling, Taiwan and Hongkong advanced cosmetic "Sofina" (Sofina) successful introduction of China to make more Chinese consumers gather to share the essence of beautiful skin Need science. August 2002 Kao Corporation (Kao) (KAOCF) spent 30 million U.S. dollars in China created Kao (China) Corporation, which at one stroke to the three companies in China into a unified administration. In the same year in October, Kao (China) Research and Development Center Co., Ltd. was established to further accelerate the localization process Kao in China.

Kao to enter China, we always operate in line with the principles of law, and trying to sound and honest business activities, won the employees, partners, society, trust and respect. As a strong sense of social responsibility of business, Kao has to build a Hope primary schools, donation of teaching facilities, flood disaster, charities, the "atypical pneumonia" and other major epidemic aid and so many ways to implement feedback in Chinese society.

Kao though a hundred years old, but great emphasis on the use of information technology, more than 6,000 employees in its research and development of staff as high as 28.3%, only the software development department have more than 200 systems analysts and programmers. In the early '80s had begun the establishment of office automation and electronic information systems, 1984, into a value-added networks, including the Japan Information Service (JAIS) communications company rented "Trafficking in social value-added network" (Hansha VAN) and the Electricity Corporation of Japan (NTT, has translated NTT) Hire "e-Ordering System" (EOS). 1986, Kao has the first opening in the whole wide area network in Japan, to the early 90s, have set more than 20 sets of large computers. Kao has a total of nine institutes, including one called "knowledge-Information Science Institute", the English name for the "Knowledge Inteligence Science Institute, which the intelligence science term business intelligence has aroused great international interest.