Foods

The Foods Division focuses its sales on imported foodstuff for the restaurant, ready-made-meal, and retail markets. In the areas of processed fruits and prepared foods, we established a joint-venture plant at an early stage for sorting and processing, and built an integrated production management system covering everything from procurement to manufacturing. Through such efforts, we provide our customers with high-quality safe food products to meet their demands. Furthermore, by developing alternative foods, we are working to secure new sources of protein and thereby improve access to nutrition while reducing the environmental burden. Through these efforts, we are contributing to sustainability.
For food and beverages, such as confectionary ingredients, coffee, and wine, we inspect the farms and factory conditions of production areas throughout the world, and select business partners that meet our standards regarding the provision of high-quality products. For agricultural products, such as peanuts and sesame seeds, we have also developed new production areas (developing varieties, contract farming, and sorting and processing) to market differentiated products.
For ready-cooked foods, we have developed solution-type products including a rice ball with red beans, which we patented as “a method for producing rice balls with red beans,” and proposed the products developed by our own development team. Considering the safety and health of consumers as the top priority, we describe the appropriate dosage and usage on the labels of processed foods, and call attention to negative effects that may harm consumers.
Furthermore, we have set up overseas plants equipped with a central-kitchen function that enables a broad array of products to be produced simultaneously based on our experiences accumulated in the domestic food service market, while also focusing our efforts on the growth of the local-production-for-local-consumption business.

Koichi　Nishimura

Executive Officer
COO, Foods Division