KAI Group (Kai Corporation)
Company-provided description, not an official-source fact. Certifications, capacities, years and market positions stated in it are the company's own claims until a record below confirms them.
Founded in 1908 in Seki City, one of the world's three great cutlery centres, KAI Group manufactures the globally acclaimed Shun and Seki Magoroku kitchen knife lines. The company operates wholesale subsidiaries in the United States, Germany, Hong Kong, Korea, and Vietnam, and distributes products in over 100 countries through culinary retail and foodservice wholesale channels.
- Type
- Not established by any record (our catalog import lists it as manufacturer; that is not evidence of the role)
- Role
- Role not established by any record
- Location
- Seki, Japan
- Founded
- 1908 (from our catalogue record; not confirmed by the company or by a state register)
- Website
- kai-group.com
- Categories
- Kitchen & Tableware, Tools & Equipment
- Markets
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia, China, South Korea, Singapore, France
What is established and what is not
No researcher review has been written for this company yet. No official record is on file. 4 other entries are not official records: our own technical checks and searches, open directory listings, our inferences or the company's own statements. Everything is listed below with its evidence type: each entry confirms only what it literally says; none of them is a review. Nothing here confirms manufacturing, ownership or trading status beyond what each record literally says.
Facts on file, each with its evidence type
- Business email on the company's own domain (record type: corporate-mail-on-domain) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] Shows the domain runs its own email rather than a free mailbox. It describes the domain, not who owns it. checked 2026-08-08. Mail server of the company domain
- Website domain registered (record type: domain-registered) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] Shows how long this web address has been registered. That is the age of the domain, not of the company: a domain can change owners. checked 2026-08-08. Domain registry record
- No match found on the sanctions lists we checked (record type: sanctions-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public sanctions datasets and found no matching candidate. A name search is not full compliance screening. Screened by name only: no legal entity is established for this record, so this is not a clearance. checked 2026-08-08. OpenSanctions
- No match found in the debarment registers we checked (record type: debarment-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public debarment datasets and found no matching candidate. Absence from these lists is a search result, not a certificate. Screened by name only: no legal entity is established for this record, so this is not a clearance. checked 2026-08-08. OpenSanctions
Claimed certifications, not confirmed by us
- ISO 9001, Quality Management IAF CertSearch
Import rules for these goods
Product-specific import rules not established for the catalog categories Kitchen & Tableware, Tools & Equipment: neither the company's own description nor an official activity code shows that its own goods are of this kind. A catalog category alone is our classification, not proof of what the company makes or sells.
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