JAPAN SME Rating of STANDARD & POOR'S Recognition as superior company ISO9001

JAPAN SME Rating of STANDARD & POOR'S

In August, 2007, ATAGO CO.,LTD has received the top grade “aaa” from Japan SME Rating (SME=Small & Medium Sized Enterprise), which is presented by STANDARD & POOR'S, the world's foremost provider of independent credit ratings.

•About STANDARD & POOR'S
STANDARD POOR'S is one of the two biggest global rating companies beside Moodys in the United States.  It is also included in the specified 5 rating companies by Financial Service Agency in Japan. •JAPAN SME Rating
SME(Small & Medium Sized Enterprise) Rating is a credit rating co-developed by STANDARD & POOR'S, the world's foremost provider of independent credit ratings, and Japan Risk Data Bank(RDB), investing the database of Small  & Medium Sized Enterprise. The credit rating is consisted of seven levels, “aaa” to “ccc”. You can see the latest information of JAPAN SME Rating through the website of STANDARD & POOR'S.

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Recognition as superior company

On November 27th 2007, we, ATAGO CO., LTD., received recognition as superior company from the Itabasi revenue office. Such a superior company is selected every five years by the revenue office based on the investigation and analysis of the management contents of enterprise. ATAGO received this recognition second time following the year 2002.

ISO9001

ISO has been developing voluntary technical standards over almost all sectors of business, industry and technology since 1947. So, if the first you heard of us was in connection with ISO 9000 then you are probably asking yourself, "How come I have never heard of ISO before?" The answer is that if you are asking yourself the question, then you are probably not an engineer, because if you were, you would almost certainly have come into contact with at least some of ISO's technical standards. With the exception of ISO 9000 the vast majority of ISO standards are highly specific. They are documented agreements containing technical specifications or other precise criteria to be used consistently as rules, guidelines, or definitions of characteristics to ensure that materials, products, processes and services are fit for their purpose. If that sounds like engineering talk, you're absolutely right! It also explains why ISO standards were, before ISO 9000 principally of concern to engineers and other technical specialists concerned by the precise scope addressed in the standard.
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