This page is an archive of the "100th Anniversary Website" created between June 2012 and February 2014 to celebrate 100 years of SAKATA SEED CORPORATION in June 2013. The content is as it was at that time.

Commemorative Logo to Celebrate 100 Years of Business

Sakata Seed Corporation will celebrate 100 years of business in 2013.
To honor this milestone, Sakata has created a 100th anniversary commemorative logo. The company will use this logo from April 1, 2012 to December 31, 2013 to notify the wider community that it is celebrating 100 years.
Moreover, as part of the anniversary commemorating the company's founding, "PASSION in Seed" has been established as the slogan for the corporate group. Sakata will continue to stride forward in the future, in aiming to always be business worthy of its customers' trust as well as leveraging its corporate motto of "Quality, Reliability, Service."

The 100th Anniversary Commemorative Logo

PASSION in Seed 100 years

The logo denotes a large flower with seven colorful seed-shaped petals enclosing the slogan "PASSION in Seed." These seven seed-shaped petals represent seven values incorporated into "PASSION" as a word; the logo's design also expresses Sakata's hope that these values will make flowers bloom in the hearts of all of the company's customers throughout the world and every Sakata employee. The entire Sakata Group will use the commemorative logo from April 1, 2012 until December 31, 2013.

The Corporate Group Slogan

PASSION. P:People, A:Ambition, S:Sincerity, S:Smile, I:Innovation, O:Optimism, N:Never give up.

The Group slogan of "PASSION in Seed" was adopted to convey the "PASSION" of Sakata's convictions. While the surrounding world has changed since the establishment of the company, Sakata's "PASSION about seeds" has not. Indeed, this PASSION is part of Sakata's corporate DNA.
The words "PASSION in Seed" is infused with its meaning, "the seed we make is the crystallization of Sakata's 100-year PASSION for development." Furthermore, the seven letters that spell "PASSION" are both an amalgam and expression of above values:

History of SAKATA SEED CORPORATION

With head office members of Sakata Shokai. Center of first row, Toshio Sakata on December 26, 1922.

History 01

Passion cultivated in business training overseas

Takeo Sakata in the executive office (1944)

History 02 Pioneering Days

From Overcoming Growing Pains to Success with the World's First F1 All-Double Petunia

Takeo Sakata awarded the Medallion of Honor of All America Selections(August 1965)

History 03 The Growth Period

From Post-War Ruin to a New Start and Rapid Growth through F1 Varieties

The head office in Idogaya

History 04 Expansion & Development Period

Reinforcing domestic business to gain a foothold for further expansion overseas

Head office of Sakata Seed Corporation

History 05 Period of rapid growth

Company braves new century with seed strength