History

1967 The Morimatsu store was registered as a wholesale broker at the Matsuyama Central wholesale market.
1976 Built a new main office with bigger sales area and a factory,in order to increase sales to the wholesale markets and to strengthen the purchasing position for local fish. Started the Frozen Seafood business.
1978 Started farming Seabream to expand the farmed fish product line.
1984 The Morimatsu Store was incorporated as the Morimatsu Suisan Reito Co.,Ltd.
1985 A computer system was introducted as order to rationalize the factory work process and to simplify control of the increasing amount of clerical work.
1987 Rumi Japan Co., Ltd. was incorporated and started imports of frozen seafood, fingerlings, grown fish and fish feed. Installed a 500t freezer on 1,650 square meters of company land in order to strengthen frozen products sales to lacal wholesalers and retailers.
1991 The founder retired and a new president was appointed. The organization structure was then changed. The main office was renovated and expanded. A new factory was built and product lines were wxpanded to match our customers’ needs.Started sales of Yellowtail fillet and Seabream to the Hokkaido wholesale Market.
1993 A Processing factory with an accompanying Sales Dept. was built next to the 500t freezer in order to further strengthen sales of frozen products.
1995 Achieved the highest record of processing more than 13,000 pieces of fish per day by the introduction of various automatic machines.
1996 Purchased land next to the processing factory. The total processing factory area grew to 3,300 square meters.
1997 Finished the installation of farmed fish tanks in the new processing factory, currently the most prominent in Western japan.
1999 The processing factory was renovated and sanitary facilities were installed in order to acquire the HACCP certificate.
2000 The HACCP certificate was issued by the japan Frozen Foods Inspection Corporation.
2001 Inaugurated a new project to apply for an EU HACCP certificate.
2002 Purchased 1,350 aquare meters of land next to the processing plant for further construction in order to apply for an EU HACCP certificate. Inaugurated a new project to apply for ISO9001.
2003 ISO9001 of theB・R・C certified Integrated MorimatsuFishery Frozen Stock Company and Lumi Japan Ltd.
2004 EUHACCP certified. Scheduled to the EU market.
2006 Registered as an exemption of FDA inspection.