Japan’s leading food seasoning manufacturer Ajinomoto Co. Inc is expanding across Asia and the Middle East.
In Jakarta, Indonesia, Ajinomoto is building a new plant worth about JPY6bn (US$67.7m), scheduled to start manufacturing food seasonings in 2012. It would export to the Middle East and other Asian countries such as Pakistan, said Ajinomoto’s spokesman Kagaya Yutaka.
Go deeper with GlobalData
“Our businesses in Asia and the Middle East will focus on providing monosodium glutamate and different food seasonings in the coming years,” he said.
Ajinomoto has boosted Middle East marketing by setting up a sales office in Dubai in 2008 and is considering establishing offices in other United Arab Emirates states, he said.
The company is also assessing building a new plant in Bangladesh because of growing demand within the country’s fast increasing population, so far supplied by Ajinomoto’s India plant.
Sales of Ajinomoto products in Indonesia reached JPY26 billion (USD 293 million) in 2009, up 10% year-on-year. Overall, Ajinomoto secured around JPY180 billion (USD2 billion) in 2009 Asia and Middle East sales, up 6% from 2008.
US Tariffs are shifting - will you react or anticipate?
Don’t let policy changes catch you off guard. Stay proactive with real-time data and expert analysis.
By GlobalData
