Our steady business management
Since our foundation in 1919, Irie has never delivered our operating earnings deficit. As a trading company specializing in science and technology, Irie Corporation has the history of steady business management as follows;
| January,1919 | Started physicochemical equipment manufacturing and import dealers as an individual sales (Irie Shoten) at 19 Ryukan-cho, Kanda-ku, Tokyo (present:Chiyoda-ku) |
| March,1928 | Became a distributer of a quartz products of Tokyo Electric Co., Ltd. (existing Toshiba Corporation) |
| March,1941 | Changed to corporation organization, Capital: 190,000 yen (Limited liability company Irie Seisakusho) |
| July,1954 | Organization change (changed to Irie Seisakusho Co., Ltd.) |
| August,1959 | Established Osaka Sales Office (existing Osaka branch) |
| May,1967 | Became a distributer of IWAKI CO.,LTD. |
| April,1970 | Became the sole distributer of Toshiba reference thermometer, 624 ° C high thermometer, Toshiba color glass filter and interference filter. |
| April,1971 | Became the photoelectric apparatus distributer of Tokyo Optical Co., Ltd. (existing TOPCON TECHNOHOUSE CORPORATION) |
| April,1977 | Became the distributer of electronic device produced by Toshiba electron Division |
| April,1978 | Became the distributer of Toshiba Glass Co., Ltd. (existing ASAHI TECHNO GLASS Corp.) |
| April,1980 | Established Kyushu Sales Office (existing Kyushu Branch) |
| December,1982 | Became the distributer of Nihon Millipore K.K. (existing E. Merck Japan Limited and Nihon Entegris K.K.) |
| April,1983 | Established Saijyo District Office (existing Shikoku Sales Office) |
| September,1985 | Established Ichikawa distrihutiion Center (Ichikawa-city, Chiba) |
| April,1989 | Became the distributer of Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corporation |
| February,1991 | Established South Kyushu Sales Office |
| April,1994 | Became the distributer of Shibaura Engineering Works Co., Ltd.(existing Shibaura Mechatronics Corporation) |
| July,1996 | Capital increased to 45 million yen |
| April,2003 | Became the domestic sole distributer of the luminometers of TOPCON TECHNOHOUSE CORPORATION |
| March,2004 | Established Hikone District Office |
| January,2005 | Company renamed to Irie Corporation |
| February,2006 | ISO 14001 certificate acquisition |
| March,2006 | Established Electronics Sales Department |
| March,2008 | Established Hiroshima Sales Office |
| February,2009 | Started overseas support business |
| November,2015 | Established Tsuruoka District Office |
| February,2017 | Acquired all shares of FIT Leadintex, Inc. |
| March,2017 | Established Naka District Office |
