CORPORATE PROFILE

Business name	KNC Laboratories Co., Ltd.
Date of incorporation	January 22, 1985
Capital	¥1,995,106,630
Representative	Takuya Maoka, Representative Director and President
No. of employees	321 (as of April 1, 2024)
Description of business	Research, development, and production solutions for organic chemicals
Banks of account	Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, MUFG Bank, Ltd., The San-in Godo Bank, Ltd., Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank, Ltd.
Officers	Representative Director and Chairman Hitoshi Miyauchi Representative Director and President Takuya Maoka Executive Managing Director Masahiro Neya (Managing officer of Pharmaceutical & Bio Technology Business, General Manager of Regulatory Affairs & Quality Assurance Dept.) Director Ryuichi Inoue (Managing officer of Corporate Strategy & Human Resources) Director Yasuhide Kuriyama (Managing officer of General Affairs & Finance and Accounting) Director Hidemi Yoshida (Managing officer of Fine Chemicals & General Manager of Fine Chemicals Quality Assurance Dept.) Director Mitsukuni Mouri Director Osamu Maruyama Audit & Supervisory Board Member Yoshihiro Takagi Audit & Supervisory Board Member Yoshihisa Tsukamoto Audit & Supervisory Board Member Masami Shigematsu
Executive Officers	Corporate Officer Jun-ichi Miyahara (Director of Bio Technology Division, General Manager of Life Science Dept.) Corporate Officer Takamitsu Nagakawa (Director of Sales & Marketing Division) Corporate Officer Kimihiro Kamasaka (Director of Fine Chemicals Division) Corporate Officer Koji Matsuo (General Manager of Sales & Business Management Dept.)

CORPORATE HISTORY

January 1985	KNC Laboratories Co., Ltd. incorporated (Nishi-ku, Kobe) with ¥10 million in capital
February 1988	Iwaoka Plant established (Nishi-ku, Kobe)
May 1988	Capital increase to ¥25 million
May 1992	Capital increase to ¥50 million, Tokyo Sales Office opened
October 1993	Ichikawa Laboratory opened (Ichikawa-cho, Kanzaki-gun, Hyogo)
August 1997	Head office transferred (Okubo-cho, Akashi)
April 2001	Izumo Plant established (Izumo, Shimane)
November 2002	Head office transferred (Seishin Industrial Park, Nishi-ku, Kobe), Kobe Laboratory opened
June 2003	Daichi Kasei Co., Ltd. acquired (sold October 2010)
October 2003	KNC Laboratories, Inc. incorporated in US (closed July 2007) Merger company Dashen Yiyao Huagong (Taicang) Youxian Gongsi incorporated in China
December 2003	Kobe Plant established (co-located with Head office and Kobe Laboratory)
June 2005	KNC Bioresearch Center opened (High-Tech Park, Nishi-ku, Kobe)
April 2007	KNC-Tsukuba Laboratory opened (within University of Tsukuba; closed March 2012)
October 2007	Dashen Yiyao Huagong (Taicang) Youxian Gongsi became a wholly-owned subsidiary (sold December 2016)
October 2009	Izumo Plant No. 2 established
August 2012	Capital increase to ¥100 million
March 2018	Listed on Mothers market, Tokyo Stock Exchange
December 2019	Head office and Kobe Laboratory transferred (Port Island, Chuo-ku, Kobe)
April 2022	Transistion to Growth market, Tokyo Stock Exchange