Food Division
Message from the COO
- Managing Executive Officer, COO, Food Division
- Daisuke Okada
The Food Division engages in the domestic and international trading of a comprehensive range of food products. One of the division’s particular strengths is raw materials, where it holds a leading market share as a grain trader with a lineup that includes wheat, corn and soybeans, as well as in coffee beans.
Elsewhere, we are building a robust structure for the division in midstream and downstream sectors by strengthening our hand in the area of food distribution. Actions on this front include our investment in functional subsidiaries of AEON CO., LTD., a business partnership with SOTETSU ROSEN Co., Ltd., and managerial participation in the Acecook Vietnam Joint Stock Company. In this way the division, through its involvement at every phase of food production, aims to supply safe food products and flexibly meet the needs of its diverse customers.
The division will also newly form the China & ASEAN Market Development Department to accomplish marketing strategy swiftly and surely in China and ASEAN, which are important strategic areas for the division, which will expand its businesses in these markets.
Sources of Strength
• Industry-leading trading volume in grain
The division boasts the leading trading volume for grain in terms of both imports and transactions with other countries. Going forward, the division will hone its global competitiveness by enhancing sales capabilities in growth markets like China. At the same time, the division is working to ensure stable grain supplies by diversifying production sources, enabling it to not only stably supply Japan, but to meet rising demand for grains worldwide.
• No. 1 trading volume for imported coffee beans
The division commands Japan’s top trading volume for coffee beans imported to the country, and is working to expand globally with subsidiary Cia. Iguaçu de Café Solúvel, Brazil’s largest instant coffee manufacturing and sales company, as a production base. The division has constructed a reliable and optimal supply chain to expand its sales not only to Japan, but also to European, American and Asian markets.
• Powerful downstream development through retail industry investment
In addition to business and capital alliances with AEON, Daiei, Maruetsu and other retailer groups, the division is creating products that answer consumer needs by leveraging Marubeni’s strengths in raw ingredients and materials to develop frameworks for supplying safe and dependable products at competitive prices.
News & Topics
Management Participation with Acecook Vietnam
Comprehensive Partnership with AMAGGI, a Grain Collection/Oil-pressing Company in Brazil
Comprehensive Partnership with MOLINO CANUELAS, One of Argentina's Largest Total Food Product Companies
