Corporate outline
| Company name | SUN-AD Company Limited |
|---|---|
| Head office | Aoyama Plaza Building, 2-11-3 Kita-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0061 Japan TEL +81-3-5785-6800 FAX +81-3-3796-3850 |
| Representative | Yoshiteru Aoki, Representative Director and President |
| Established | May 1964 |
| Capital | 24,030,000 yen (authorized capital 96,000,000 yen) |
| Employees | 100 (As of February 1, 2009) |
Lines of business
- 1 Planning and producing advertisements and sales promotion tools in graphic media, including newspapers, magazines, posters, catalogs, pamphlets, public relation magazines and sales promotion tools.
- 2 Planning and producing TV commercials, promotion videos and radio commercials.
- 3 Planning, producing and administrating of websites and the web advertising.
- 4 Planning and producing corporate identity (CI), brand identity (BI) and visual identity (VI).
- 5 Product design, packaging design, spatial design, document binding and licensing businesses.
- 6 Photography.
- 7 Drafting other advertisement plans in general.
Officers
- Representative director and president AOKI Yoshiteru
- Chairman of the board of director MATSUURA Yoshikazu
- Director and vice president KASAI Kaoru
- Managing director NAGAKURA Tomohiko
- Managing director FURUI Toshiyasu
- Managing director ITO Hiroyuki
- Managing director OMORI Kiyoshi
- Director DOI Masato
- Director KOJIMA Junichi
- Director MINAMIKAWA Takahiro
Adviser
- Creative director ANDO Takashi
History
| 1964 | Established as a subsidiary of Suntory,Ltd. YAMAZAKI Takao (then Suntory director in charge of advertising) inaugurated as the representative director and president. YANAGIHARA Ryohei, KAIKO Takeshi, YAMAGUCHI Hitomi, SAKAI Mutsuo, and SAKANE Susumu participated in establishment. |
|---|---|
| 1970 | Plans and produces the Suntory Pavilion for the Japan World Exposition. (EXPO '70) |
| 1975 | Establishes Harajuku SUN-AD Company Limited, mainly to do work for Honda Motor. |
| 1989 | Plans and manufactures "Noblesse Oblige", a whisky commemorating the Company's 25th anniversary. |
| 1993 | Renames the TV Production Division the Visual Media Division and adds a function for visual media production. |
| 2002 | Launches ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS, an original label in product design. |
| 2002 | SENDENKAIGI Co., Ltd. publishes SUN-AD at Work, a book covering the 38-year milestones of SUN-AD. Hosts "People of SUN-AD", a memorial exhibition, at the Ginza Graphic Gallery. |
| 2004 | Plans and manufactures "1964", a whisky commemorating the Company's 40th anniversary. |
| 2008 | Moved from Marunouchi Chiyoda-ku to Kita-Aoyama Minato-ku |