Success at the "Flower Exposition" and the "Kakegawa Research Center"

The International Garden and Greenery Exposition was held in Osaka from April to September of 1990. A new variety of the Texas Bluebell, Sakata's "King of Snow," won the Grand Prize. The "King" series was turned into a product line and became one of Sakata's representative products.

On November 1st of that year Sakata Seed Corporation was partially listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange for the first time. The president of the company, Mr. Masayuki Sakata, passed away just prior to that, on October12th at the age of 73

As flower cultivation and vegetable production advanced in the Misato and Kimitsu respecively, capacity was approaching the limit. As a result, approximately 32ha were set up in Kakegawa City, Shizuoka. The facility was established in April 1990, and it opened officially as the Kakegawa Research Station, a dual agricultural and research facility in May of 1993.