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Kao Corporation, founded in 1887, Kao was formerly the Western grocery store, "Nagase Store" (Flower Wang alkaline), which sells American-made soap make soap, and Japan and imported stationery, business people Nagase Kao Fu Lang. Kao cosmetics and other products related to the current 600 species of 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 R & D results, and jointly create a beautiful and clean each day career development process. Kao centuries in Japan as a continuation of Kao in China, also adhering to the "creation of quality products," the purpose, focus on a careful analysis to grasp the needs of Chinese consumers and product development changes in lifestyle. After many years of business integrity, Kao's China already has a "Biore", "Le and Ya" and "poetry fun", "Jie Ba", "Kao", "Runaway" and many other high quality brand known , and its impressive performance in their respective areas, the majority of 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 a Kao Group cutting-edge field of chemical industry R & D results.

Kao Group in June 2002 set up in Shanghai Kao (China) Investment Co., Ltd., and in 2004 will be known in Japan, popular in Taiwan, Hong Kong's advanced cosmetic "Sofina" (Sufei Na) successfully introduced into China, so that more Chinese consumers gather to share the essence of the best Body Science. August 2002 Kao Corporation (Kao) (KAOCF) spent 30 million U.S. dollars in China created Kao (China) Co. Ltd., which in one fell swoop 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 of Kao in China.

Kao into China, there has been in a law-abiding principle, strive through sound and honest business activities, to win employees, partners, community trust and respect. As a strong sense of social responsibility of enterprises, Kao has to build Hope Primary School, donation of teaching facilities, floods, charitable institutions, to the "atypical pneumonia" and other major epidemic in many ways the implementation of assistance, etc. back in Chinese society.

While Kao is a century-old, but paid great attention to the use of information technology, more than 6,000 employees in its research and development staff as high as 28.3%, only there are more than 200 software development systems analysts and programmers. In the early 80s had already begun to establish office automation and electronic information systems, into a value-added network in 1984, including the Japan Information Service (JAIS) communications company hired "social value-added network trafficking" (Hansha VAN) and the Electricity Corporation of Japan (NTT, also translated as NTT) leased "Electronic Ordering System" (EOS). 1986 All Japan Kao and the first opening in wide area network, to the early 90s, have set more than 20 large-scale computer. Kao has a total of nine research institutes, including one called "Knowledge and Information Science Research Institute" and its English name is "Knowledge Inteligence Science Institute, which caused an international intelligence science word of great interest to business intelligence community.