Company Information

Corporate Site 

Kao Corporation develops and sells hygiene living care, health beauty care, life care, cosmetics, and chemical products in Japan. It offers fabric, kitchen, home, and sanitary care products; facial, body, hair, and oral care, hair styling and color, salon, in-bathroom health care, and warming products; and self-selection cosmetics, as well as provides cosmetics counseling services. It also provides oleo chemicals, such as oleochemicals, fat and oil derivatives, surfactants, and fragrances; water-reducing admixtures for concrete, casting sand binders, plastics additives, and process chemicals for various industries; and toners/toner binders, inkjet ink colorants, ink, fine polishing agents and cleaners for hard disk, and materials and process chemicals for semiconductor. 

Some of their many famous brands include Attack, Kyukyutto, Nivea, Bub, Biore, and Resesh.

Stock Perks

Categories: Products

Rights day

End of December

Details

Lotteries to special events and a set of products.

In addition, you can get a selection of company products. Choose between one of the following:

• Cosmetics

• Household goods

Requirements

Requires you to hold the shares for at least 6 months.

100 shares for the lotteries.

For the products:

400 shares - 6,000 yen worth

1,000 shares - 10,000 yen worth

Comment

I assume that you have a very low chance of winning the lotteries so I wouldn't put much value on those. The products do have a higher share amount, but if you're a fan of what Kao produces then it'll be nice to receive them every year.

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