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Ajinomoto To Restructure Food Businesses In Japan

Japanese food conglomerate Ajinomoto has announced that it is restructuring its seasonings and processed foods businesses, as part of the key strategies in...

Meiji To Boost Premium Chocolate Output As Sales Beat Target

Meiji Holdings Co., Japan’s biggest chocolate maker, will buy more cocoa beans from Latin America to increase output of premium products after sellin...

Meet The Man That Has Brought Low Cost Sushi To The Masses

Kisaku Suzuki, creator of the world’s first sushi robot, once ran a company that made candy-wrapping machines. And he was angry. Why had the Japan...

Nestlé Opens New KitKat Factory In Japan For Exotic Flavours

Nestlé is opening a new KitKat factory in Japan, its first in over 25 years, to cater for the growing demand for exotic varieties of the chocolate b...

Japan's Suntory To Invest €100m Into French Production Facilities

Japanese food and beverage conglomerate has announced that it is to invest €100 million into its four French factories, in order to bolster production...

BAT's Glo Roll-Out In Japan Sets Up Three-Way War For Smokers

British American Tobacco is expanding sales of its heated tobacco device next month to Tokyo, just as former cigarette monopoly Japan Tobacco Inc. introduc...

The Great Japan Potato-Chip Crisis: Panic Buying, $12 Bags

Demand for potato chips has surged in Japan this week, with products on offer for 6 times their retail price online after Japanese snack company Calbee Inc...