Kubota Corporation (KUBTY)

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Kubota Corporation

1-2-47 Shikitsu Higashi
Naniwa-ku
Osaka 556-8601
Japan
81 6 6648 2111
https://www.kubota.co.jp

Sector(s): Industrials
Industry: Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery
Full-time employees: 52,608

Key executives

Name	Title	Pay	Exercised	Year born
Mr. Yuichi Kitao	President & Representative Director	1.49M	N/A	1956
Mr. Masato Yoshikawa	EVP, GM of Planning & Control HQ, GM of HR & General Affairs HQ, and Representative Director	748.8k	N/A	1959
Mr. Dai Watanabe	Executive VP, GM of Farm, Ind. Machinery Consolidated Div. & Innovation Center and Director	729.6k	N/A	1958
Mr. Shingo Hanada	Senior Managing Executive Officer & Director	595.2k	N/A	1963
Shinichi Yamada	Executive Officer and GM of Corporate Compliance & Risk Management Headquarters	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mr. Nobuyuki Ishii	Managing Executive Officer of KBT	N/A	N/A	N/A
Yoshimitsu Ishibashi	Sr Managing Executive Officer and GM of ASEAN Farm & Industrial Machinery Strategy & Operations HQ	N/A	N/A	N/A
Eiji Yoshioka	Sr. MEO, GM of Wtr., Envr. Infra. Consolidated Div., Tkyo. Hd. Ofc. & DGM of Invtn. Cen. and Dir	N/A	N/A	1958
Mr. Yasukazu Kamada	Managing Executive Officer	N/A	N/A	N/A
Hiroto Kimura	GM of R&D HQ, Kubota Glb. Inst of Tech & Carbon Neutral Prom Dpt., Sr. MEO and Director	N/A	N/A	1961

Amounts are as of 31 December 2023, and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. Pay includes salary, bonuses, etc. Exercised is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year. Currency in USD.

Description

Kubota Corporation manufactures and sells agricultural and construction machinery in Japan, North America, Europe, Asia, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Farm & Machinery, Water & Environment, and Others. The Farm & Machinery segment offers tractors, power tillers, combine harvesters, rice transplanters, turf equipment, utility vehicles, other agricultural machinery, implements, attachments, post-harvest machinery, vegetable production equipment, intermediate management machine, and other equipment; cooperative drying, rice seedling, and gardening facilities; scales, weighing and measuring control systems, and air purifier; engines for farm equipment, construction machinery, industrial machinery, and generators; and mini excavators, wheel and skid steer loaders, compact track loaders, and other construction machinery related products. Its Water & Environment segment provides ductile iron pipes, synthetic pipes, valves, and single stack drain fittings, as well as design and construction services; reformer and cracking tubes, hearth rolls, TXAX materials, and spiral steel pipes; air-conditioning equipment; wastewater treatment equipment and plants, pumps and pump plants, membrane solutions, wastewater purification plants, night-soil treatment plants, waste incinerating and meltingplants, waste shredding and sorting plants, flue gas desulfurization apparatus, membrane methane fermentation plants, wastewater treatment plant, and valves. The Others segment offers logistics services; and roofing and exterior wall materials. It also engages in the underwriting of non-life insurance, retail financing, finance leasing, maintenance, security guarding, and facility management services; and import and export of components for farm equipment, engines, and construction machinery. It serves customers through a network of dealers. Kubota Corporation was founded in 1890 and is headquartered in Osaka, Japan.

Corporate governance

Kubota Corporation’s ISS governance QualityScore as of 1 May 2024 is 4. The pillar scores are Audit: 1; Board: 5; Shareholder rights: 5; Compensation: 1.

Corporate governance scores courtesy of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Scores indicate decile rank relative to index or region. A decile score of 1 indicates lower governance risk, while 10 indicates higher governance risk.