| Name: | Meguro Institute Co.,Ltd |
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| Head Office: | 7-29 Masumi-cho,Ikeda-shi,Osaka 563-0041 Japan Telephone (072)751-2927 Facsimile(072)753-3364 |
| Kasai Factory: | 318-1 Aza-kotaninoue-otsu, Hanjou-cho, Kasai-shi, Hyogo Prf. Telephone(0790)49-2361 Facsimile(0790)49-1329 |
| Capital: | ￥35,200,000 |
| Foundation: | May 1925 |
| President: | Nobuyuki Inoue |
| Employees: | 20 |
| Line of work: | Manufacturer,sales, import, and export of medical drugs, diagnostic, food supplement, and feed additives. |
| Shareholder: | Maruishi Pharmaceutical Co.,Ltd |
| Major transacting banks: |
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Osaka-chuo Branch The Minato Bank Ltd, Osaka Branch |
Meguro Institute Co.,Ltd was established by the late Dr.Youzaburou Meguro Who graduated from Osaka prefectural medical school in 1910.
Then he studied under Dr.Kiyoshi Shiga of “National Institute of Infectious Diseases” regarding bacteriology and immunology. At the same time
Dr.Shibasaburou Kitasato was established the Kitasato Institute, where Dr.Meguro devoted his study for 4 years together with Dr.Kiyoshi Shiga .
Then Dr.Meguro went to Europe to study abroad,he studied under Dr.Bordet of Institut Pasteur in Belgium, and Dr.Ramone of Institut Pasteur in France,
respectively.
| 1925: | Osaka Jikkenn Tiryou Kenkyusho (Kita-ku, Osaka-si) founded. |
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| 1929: | Began sale of “Biozenin” Lactic acid bacterium preparatioin. |
| 1931: | Began sale of“Diphitherial formo Vaccine”. |
| 1937: | The company name was changed to Meguro Institute from Osaka Jikkenn Tiryosho. Began sale“Diphitherial Seroprophylaxis”. |
| 1945: | The facility of Meguro Institute in Osaka was burnt down by war,,Then the company was removed to Kohda-cho, Ikeda-shi, Osaka. |
| 1948: | Meguro Institute was constructed new facilities to Masumi-cho, Ikeda-shi (present address). Simultaneously the system and name of company was changed to Meguro Instirute Co.,Ltd. |
| 1950: | Began to sale “Exanthematic Typhus Vaccine”. |
| 1952: | Reopen to sale “Biozenin”. |
| 1958: | Began to sale “Japanese encephalitis Vaccine”. |
| 1968: | Began to sale raw material of Antibiotics-Resistant Lactic Acid Bactedriae. “Conc-Enteropoly-R” and “Bionattomin” for manufacturer of gastrointestinal. |
| 1977: | Began to diagnostic kit “Reverscell” for detection of HBs Ag in serum. |
| 1980: | The new Kasai Factory complied with GMP was established in Kasai-shi, Hyogo-Prefecture. To be enlarged volume of production for probiotic and diagnostic, etc. |
| 1997: | Become subsidiary of Maruishi Pharmaceutical Co.,Ltd. |
| 2003: | Addition on Kasai Factory completed. |
