Food Business
Marubeni's Food Business (Grain Trading Business)
• Leading trade-volume among Japanese trading firms (20 million tons for fiscal 2011/3).
• Expand our sales channel in growing markets such as Asia -- most notably China--, Middle East and North Africa.
Major Activities in Fiscal 2011/3
[Expansion of alliance network connecting production centers, logistic facilities and markets]
• Comprehensive Collaboration Agreement with East Russian Grains Consolidator and Port Logistics Operator.
• Collaboration Agreement with a French Logistics Company,Senalia Union.
• Agreement with China’s Largest Grain Trading Company, COFCO.
Recent Topics
Investment in Chinese Feedstuff and Livestock Business (Announced in April 2011)
Agreed on strategic cooperation with LIUHE Group, which is engaged in the industries of feedstuff, livestock breeding and food processing centering on Shandong Province.
[Strategic cooperation with LIUHE Group, China’s Largest agricultural company]
• LIUHE Group and Marubeni aim to develop the integrated business of feedstuff and livestock in China.
• Concluded to invest in Qingdao Tianrun Food Co., Ltd. under LIUHE Group, which forms an integrated business of feedstuff, livestock breeding and processing for chicken products.
• Marubeni continues to develop such projects together with LIUHE Group and also focuses trading business with them.
