The branches implement community-based sales activities for selling food materials in which we have strengths, such as sugar, glycation, basic materials, livestock products, and agricultural and fishery materials.

They also provide support for sales of area products in Japan and overseas and customers’ overseas expansion, and offer meticulous services that satisfy customers’ needs in their respective regions.

We engage also in the development, manufacture, import and sale of original products in Japan and overseas to meet the needs of regions and customers.

Items handled in this business include professional-use and retail meat products, processed agricultural, marine and livestock products and frozen foods, and customers are wide-ranging, including supermarkets, drugstores, home-meal replacement and restaurant chains and professional-use wholesalers.

In particular, the Nagoya Branch handles a large number of oil processed products in China and processed marine products in Vietnam, and imports products from the United States. The Nagoya Branch considers the export of Japanese products to the United States and Southeast Asian countries, as other branches do.

In addition, the Kansai Foodstuffs Department engages in the development and import of a large number of foods preservable at ordinary temperature manufactured in Thailand and China, and promotes the enhancement of professional-use frozen foods handled in these countries.