Talk:Kagome (company)

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A fact from Kagome (company) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 17 May 2008, and was viewed approximately 1,117 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that Ichitaro Kanie grew Japan's first tomatoes in 1899, founding the ¥157 billion Kagome tomato empire? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/May.

As I don't read Japanese, I haven't been able to establish Kagome's notability in the normal way, with extensive coverage in reliable sources. A mention in QSR magazine is not enough. However, I think that

1. a listing on the main market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and
2. the first ever tomato grower in Japan

both point to notability. I would like help to firmly establish notability, in case I need to defend it from deletionists; so could readers of Japanese please identify sources, such as major newspaper articles? Translations of short extracts would also be helpful. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 13:45, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Have you checked financial sites in English, for example Google Finance? --Sushiya (talk) 14:07, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Good question. I included the most notable English language material from Google into the article. There was little significant coverage, only press releases, and brief mentions in the financial press. I will cite this very short article in Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2007/05/17/afx3734200.html --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 15:08, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Does this 1991 article from the Modesto Bee help establish notability? [1] I didn't add it to the Wikipedia article.

I think the English Jiji Press article [2] helps too, but it is very much a summarized press release. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 15:25, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Japan Weekly Monitor (English) [3]. Is that worth adding to the article? I think the article would really benefit from some major Japanese-language sources. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 15:52, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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I used to buy Kagome juices when I lived in the US, but it appears as though they haven't been available for a while now. Does anyone know anything about what happened to the company's juices? --VetLH (talk) 20:17, 15 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]