ABOUT

Message from the President

Aiming to be a Business Group continually
creating added values

We are an international traders’ group that started out doing business between Japan and China. Our existence is by virtue of the land and sea that belong to the Earth. As a logistics business, we aim to act as a bridge that connects separated lands across the globe. Let’s try selling products produced in one country to people in other countries. Let’s go beyond traditional trading and manufacturing and create brand value. Since our foundation, we have ceaselessly tackled new challenges. And the world is the stage where we pursue our activities. Let’s introduce Japanese technologies to global markets. From being Japanese traders to becoming international traders. From Japanese products to an international brand. Let’s engage in cultural exchanges with the world through business. Our ambition is to make contributions, no matter how small, to children’s education, the world’s future leaders.
Our curiosity, appetite for growth, and spirit of challenge know no bounds.
In the ever more rapidly changing environment of the 21st Century, we will create new added values through business. We aim to become a business group that delivers better lifestyles and services to people in Japan and worldwide.

Akihisa Yamamoto
Apollo Trading Group Representative

Head Office

Apollo Trading Corporation

Apollo Tower Nihonbashi, 1-8-16 Nihonbashi Honcho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0023
tel. 03-4218-3388
fax. 03-4218-3386

Nihonbashi

“Morning Scene at Nihonbashi Bridge” from the Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido by Hiroshige Utagawa

The Nihonbashi District
Nihonbashi proliferated as a castle town with the establishment of the Edo Shogunate. Traders and artisans from all over the country gathered here. The famous “Nihonbashi” bridge became the starting point of the Five Highways that connected Edo, the then capital of Japan, with the outer provinces. Blessed with excellent water transportation, Nihonbashi was also a place where various goods and merchandise were gathered and distributed. Trading in these goods handed down through the generations in the form of goodwill, which changed to take on business, and growth continues now more than ever.
Redevelopment of Nihonbashi
In the Nihonbashi district (Chuo Ward, Tokyo), and the Metropolitan Expressway Underground Project to be implemented by 2040, moves are underway to redevelop the five districts surrounding the Nihonbashi River and to construct office buildings and mixed-use facilities. It includes the linkage of the five surrounding districts and establishing international financial and business bases , and the developinga waterside scenery and pedestrian network, aimed at the rebirth of Nihonbashi into an attractive area that will combine history and culture with cutting-edge urban functions.

History

  • 1995
    • Jan.Establishment of Apollo Trading Corporation
  • 1997
    • Feb.Establishment of the Guangdong Office in Shunde City, Guangdong Province
  • 2000
    Jul.Establishment of Foshan Shunde Apollo Air Cleaner Co., Ltd.
  • 2001
    • Jul.Establishment of Shenzhen Office in Shenzhen City
    • Nov.Acquisition of ISO9001 Management System accreditation by Foshan Shunde Apollo Air Cleaner Co., Ltd.
  • 2004
    • Feb.Completion of Factory of Foshan Shunde Apollo Air Cleaner Co., Ltd. in Shunde District, Foshan City in the Shunde Hi-tech Industrial Development District in Foshan City, Guangdong Province
  • 2006
    • Jun.Operations launched at expanded factory of Foshan Shunde Apollo Air Cleaner Co., Ltd.
    • Jul.Establishment of Apollo Zhanmao Technologies (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
    • Nov.Foshan Shunde Apollo Air Cleaner Co., Ltd. in Shunde District, Foshan City certified as “Guangdong High and New Technology Enterprise”
  • 2007
    • Oct.Establishment of Apollo Technology & Material Co., Ltd. in Taiwan
    • Dec.Establishment of Apollo Zhanmao Technologies (HK) Co., Limited
  • 2008
    • Dec.Foshan Shunde Apollo Air Cleaner Co., Ltd. in Shunde District, Foshan City certified as “National High and New Technology Enterprise”
  • 2009
    • Dec.Acquisition of ISO14001 Environmental Management System accreditation by Foshan Shunde Apollo Air Cleaner Co., Ltd. in Shunde District, Foshan City
  • 2012
    • Dec.Acquisition of ISO/ TS16949 Quality Management System accreditation for the automotive industry by Foshan Shunde Apollo Air Cleaner Co., Ltd. in Shunde District, Foshan City
  • 2013
    • Nov.Establishment of Star Dragon Corporation
  • 2014
    • Dec.Star Filter Corporation enters the EC business
  • 2015
    • Jun.The Apollo Trading Group begins support of “Project Hope,” and undertaking promoted by the China Youth Development Foundation.
    • Oct.Establishment of Apollo Yoko Corporation
  • 2016
    • May.Establishment of Apollo Trading (Korea) Co., Ltd.
    • Sep.Apollo Hope Elementary School opened
  • 2018
    • Aug.Establishment of Starge Cosmetics(Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
    • Dec.“J Contents Co., Ltd.” becomes a 100% owned subsidiary through acquisition of its shares from Im Co,.Ltd (the Daiichi Sankyo Health Care Group).
  • 2019
    • Feb.Start of joint venture by Freudenberg Apollo Filtration Technologies Co., Ltd. in Shunde District, Foshan City with the Freudenberg Group, Germany
  • 2020
    • May.ZAOL Co., Ltd., Korea becomes a 100% owned subsidiary through acquisition of it shares.
  • 2021
    • Aug.Relocation of Freudenberg Apollo Filtration Technologies Co., Ltd. in Shunde District, Foshan City to a new factory with a site area of 55,000m2
    • Oct.J Contents Co., Ltd. renamed Starge Inc.
  • 2022
    • Mar.Office relocated to Nihonbashi
    • Up to the present.