Sakata at Fruit Attraction 2024
From white melons to the star butternut squash “Estrella,” explore produce tailored for improved shelf life, taste, and year-round availability.
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Sakata is a key player in the seed business.
This international seed company has evolved since 1913 while retaining what makes it unique: its Japanese origins, its mindset, and its values.
Sakata’s staff are on a mission clearly defined by Hiroshi Sakata, president of Sakata Seed Corporation: “We contribute to the betterment of life and culture of the people around the world and aim to become the world’s leading seed company, with values created through our innovative flower & vegetable varieties and through our services”.
Sakata was founded in July 1913 by Takeo Sakata and is currently chaired by one of his descendants, Hiroshi Sakata. This exceptional continuity has enabled the company to maintain a family spirit and build a long-term vision.
Both these aspects generate very positive impacts such as employee retention, customer loyalty and, investor confidence.
Over more than a century, Sakata has developed:
It’s all about passion! PASSION is not just a corporate slogan for Sakata’s teams.
Sakata’s business is predominantly structured around plant breeding, seed production and sales:
Sakata EMEA vegetables focuses on these key activities in the EMEA region: Europe, Middle East and Africa.
In 2023, Sakata employed 2700 people globally, who together, achieved €519 M consolidated turnover.
Sakata’s portfolio covers 140 species and counts 3000 varieties of flowers and vegetables which are sold in 170 countries.
On the flower market, Sakata is the world leader for lisianthus and the world leader for broccoli and butternut squash on the vegetable market.
To meet local demands, Sakata has set up 36 subsidiaries and research centres on 4 continents. High-quality seeds are now produced in 19 countries.
Sakata is listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange: to check its stock price, click here.
With 20% of its staff working in research, Sakata is always looking ahead to develop varieties that meet today’s and tomorrow’s expectations.
For the company, the future is also built on values. Sakata expanded its commitments in 2022, to integrate mutual harmony into its corporate philosophy, which is now based on these 3 pillars:
These principles are conveyed in Sakata’s sustainable development policy.
From white melons to the star butternut squash “Estrella,” explore produce tailored for improved shelf life, taste, and year-round availability.
Don’t miss out on Sakata’s UK Open days! Growers can find solutions for challenges in yield, disease resistance, uniformity, and shelf-life.
Come and see new varieties to improve your performance!
Discover this high-yielding brown specialty tomato with intermediate resistance (IR) to ToBRFV.
Domaine de Sablas
Rue Jean Moulin
30620 Uchaud
France
Tel : +33 (0)4 66 71 75 00
Fax : +33 (0)4 66 71 75 09
sakata-info@sakata.eu
Sakata Vegetables Europe, a subsidiary of Sakata Seed Corporation (Japan), breeds, produces and markets high quality vegetable seeds for Europe, Middle East and Africa. It offers around 900 varieties of broccoli, tomato, squash, watermelon and cabbage to name a few.
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