To supply stable quantity under quality control system

To supply stable quantity under quality control system TOKYO MEAT MARKET CO., Ltd. was licensed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries as a wholesaler of the Meat Market of the Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market and founded in September 1966. Since its founding, our company has taken on the mission of ensuring a steady meat supply to the people of Tokyo, a giant consumption area. To fulfil the mission, we have strived to help stabilize a supply amount of high-quality meat for consumers as well as to develop a fair price setting mechanism through auctions in the market. Our auctioning price is used as an important indicator to set the price of meat sold in stores, supermarkets, and the like across Japan.
We assume a key role in suppling to consumers the safe meat, which has passed strict hygienic inspections conducted by the Shibaura Meat Sanitary Inspection Station, Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

Company name

TOKYO MEAT MARKET CO., Ltd.

Address

2-7-19 Konan, Minato-ku Tokyo, 108-0075 Japan

Our company was founded on

September 13, 1966

Our company commenced its operations on

December 19, 1966

Our major lines of business

Collection of livestock for wholesale

Our company collects livestock from all over Japan.

Commission selling

Our company sells products to buyers through the auctions.

Payments

Auction payments are done on the next business day of auction.

Publication of wholesale price data

Our company publicly announces the aggregated wholesale price data as soon as possible.

Who established the Shokuniku Market of the Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market?

Tokyo Metropolitan Government established the Meat Market. This market establisher is charged with the following missions.

• ◎ Upgrading and planning of market facilities
• ◎ Guidance and supervision of market functions
• ◎ Issuance of approvals and licenses to wholesale market brokers and purchasers

Hygienic examinations for the Shokuniku Market of the Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market

The Meat Market is placed under the centralized supervision and guidance of Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s Shibaura Meat Sanitary Inspection Station, which is in charge of carrying out examinations and tests at the Market. This inspection institution makes it a basic principle to prevent defective food products that are harmful to people’s health from entering into the market, from flowing outside the market, and from being produced in the market. In accordance with the principle, the institution is committed to speedily detecting harmful, defective food products in the market and eliminating the circulation of those products as soon as possible. Such efforts are intended to secure the safety of all the products being distributed on the Meat Market.

Distribution channels of meat from producers to consumers

Introduction of the company’s own lines of business

• ＜Real estate property leasing＞ We have built and owned a nine-storied building “TM Shinagawa City Residence,” which is conveniently located within a 7-minute walk from Shinagawa Station Konan Exit, and have run the leasing business of real estate properties.
• ＜Business for resource expansion of Wagyu production＞ We are strengthening our efforts to assist the places where Wagyu is produced, in order to promote the production and distribution and contribute to the stability of the beef industry going forward.