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Introduction

Kobe Crystal Tower, 1-3, Higashikawasakicho 1-chrome, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-8680
Japan
Telephone: (078) 371-9530
Fax: (078) 371-9568
Web site: http://www.khi.co.jp

Public Company
Incorporated: 1896 as Kawasaki Dockyard Co., Ltd.
Employees: 29,651
Sales: $10.3 billion (2003)
Stock Exchanges: Tokyo Osaka Nagoya
Ticker Symbol: KWHIY
NAIC: 336412 Aircraft Engine and Engine Parts Manufacturing; 333611 Gas Turbines (Except Aircraft) Manufacturing; 541330 Industrial Engineering Services; 336611 Ship Building and Repairing; 336510 Railroad Rolling Stock Manufacturing; 336991 Motorcycles and Parts Manufacturing; 336312 Gasoline Engine and Engine Parts Manufacturing; 332312 Fabricated Structural Metal Manufacturing; 331111 Iron and Steel Mills; 234930 Industrial Nonbuilding Structure Construction

1. Introduction
2. Late 19th-Century Company Origins
3. Expansion and Diversification in the Early Decades of the 20th Century
4. Rapid Growth in the Postwar Era
5. Withdrawing from Shipbuilding in the 1970s
6. New Strategies for Evolving Economies: 1980s–90s
7. A New Business Model for the 21st Century
8. Principal Subsidiaries
9. Principal Competitors
10. Further Reading
11. Copyright Page
12. About Page