131: Amane Nakashima, Chairman Kewpie Corporation

Mr. Amane Nakashima is the Chairman of Kewpie Corporation, the
manufacture of Kewpie mayonnaise, one of the most famous food
products in Japan. The firm started in Tokyo in 1919 after the
founder Toichiro Nakashima returned from studying in America,
where he had encountered mayonnaise for the first time. It has
retained the number one spot for mayaonnaise sales in Japan since
its launch in 1925, which is an amazing record. Kewpie
Corporation had sales of USD$5b in 2020. Mr Nakashima graduated
from Waseda University with a BA in Economics and later received
an MBA from Cornell. He became Chairman in 2016.