Greeting
CEO Todoroki Toyozo
CEO Todoroki Toyozo
With the achievements and efforts in maintaining and improving Japanese shoe production technology, we now see the time to supply our products for world shoe market and make them say “That’s the quality only Japanese ‘Thunder Shoes’ have!” through our inseparable production systems of “All made in Japan” and “Half made in Japan”.
President Todoroki Hideki
Our next objective is, not only to raise domestic competitiveness, but also to promote our brand value in the world market. And to establish these competitiveness and brand value, we will focus on developing more refined marketing strategy and multi-pronged channels.
50 years history
| 1966 | | Current chairman Toyozou Todoroki founded shoe making factory at 1-30-2 Hashiba, Taito-city, Tokyo, with capital fund of 31,000,000yen. |
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| 1971 | | Thunder Shoes Co., Ltd. established.
Toyozou Todoroki became the president. |
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| 1972 | | Pantaloon shoes gained popularity and promoted the name of Thunder widely. |
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| 1973 | | New company building of 5 stories was built in Nihon-zutsumi, Taito-city. |
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| 1974 | | Introduced state of art conveyer system. |
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| 1975 | | First company store opened at Asakusa Shin-Nakamise St., Tokyo |
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| 1976 | | Second company store opened at Koiwa-ekimae St., Tokyo. |
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| 1977 | | Thunder Trading Co., Ltd. established with the capital fund of 3,000,000yen.
Toyozou Todoroki became the president. |
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| 1978 | | Received major order of mesh shoes and succeeded in its mass production. |
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| 1979 | | Received major order of boots and succeeded in its mass production. |
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| 1980 | | Obtained the license of “Texas” brand. |
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| 1981 | | Built another factory in Senzoku, Taito-city. |
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| 1982 | | Increased capital fund to 8,000,000yen. |
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| 1983 | | Flexible management was realized by total abolishment of bill drawing. |
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| 1986 | | Obtained the license of “Ferrari” brand. |
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| 1988 | | Purchased factory site in Yamagata pref. and established Shinjo factory Co., Ltd. with the capital fund of 5,000,000yen to improve productivity.
Toyozou Todoroki became its president. |
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| 1989 | | Increased capital fund to 20,000,000yen. |
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| 2000 | | Obtained the license of “Ningen Sanka” brand by Kansai Yamamoto. |
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| 2007 | | Moved factory to 1-21-3 Kiyokawa, Taito-city, Tokyo. |
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| 2010 | | Moved head office to 1-21-4 Kiyokawa, Taito-city, Tokyo. |
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| 2011 | | Toyozou Todoroki became chairman and Hideki Todoroki became president. |
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