Nippon Sharyo

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Nippon Sharyo, Ltd.

Nippon Sharyo's headquarters
Native name	日本車輌製造株式会社
Romanized name	Nippon Sharyō Seizō kabushiki gaisha
Formerly	Nippon Sharyo Seizo Kaisha, Ltd.
Company type	Public KK
Traded as	TYO: 7102 NAG: 7102
Industry	Railways
Founded	September 1896; 127 years ago (1896-09) Japan
Headquarters	Nagoya, Japan
Key people	Tsutomu Morimura (President & CEO), Mikio Tsuge (Senior Managing Director of Nippon Sharyo, Ltd and Chairman of Nippon Sharyo USA, Inc.)
Products	Rolling stock
Revenue	101,094,000,000 yen (2017)
Operating income	−5,104,000,000 yen (2017)
Net income	−5,114,000,000 yen (2017)
Total assets	129,194,000,000 yen (2017)
Number of employees	1,850 (September 2018)
Parent	JR Central (50.1%)
Website	www.n-sharyo.co.jp/index_e.html

Nippon Sharyo, Ltd. (日本車輌製造株式会社, Nippon Sharyō Seizō kabushiki gaisha, literally "Japan Vehicles Manufacture Company" and formerly known outside Japan as Nippon Sharyo Seizo Kaisha, Ltd.), formed in 1896, is a major rolling stock manufacturer based in Nagoya, Japan. In 1996, it abbreviated its name to "日本車両" Nippon Sharyō. Its shortest abbreviation is Nissha "日車". It was a listed company on Nikkei 225 until 2004. It is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and Nagoya Stock Exchange as ticker 7102. In 2008, Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) became the majority shareholder (50.1%) of the financially struggling Nippon Sharyo making the firm a "consolidated subsidiary" of JR Central. In July 2012 Nippon Sharyo USA started production in their new facility in Rochelle, Illinois. The facility closed at the end of October 2018 due to a lack of orders.^[1][2]