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At a Glance
The Nisshin Seifun Group Today
The numbers below provide a snapshot of the current state of the Nisshin Seifun Group,
including its history, management capital, and presence in each business segment.
Founding
The forerunner of the Nisshin Seifun Group, was founded in 1900 to ensure reliable supplies of high-quality wheat flour through domestic production. As Japan’s leading flour-milling group, the Nisshin Seifun Group has since diversified into a variety of business areas, while consistently working to meet society’s needs as a key contributor to food infrastructure. Our continuing challenge going forward will be to leverage our technology and networks to earn the trust of consumers and help people enjoy healthy lives.
Business Scale
We have established a solid presence in various markets by reliably supplying high-quality products backed by our history and reputation. Our goal for the future is to achieve continuing growth through global expansion and diversification into new business areas, such as prepared dishes and other prepared foods.
Group Management Capital
Human Capital
Our diverse human resources are a major driving force for the group. We are committed to the development of good working environments, including career development for women, to ensure that every employee can reach his or her full potential.
- *Eight major operating companies: Nisshin Seifun Group Inc., Nisshin Flour Milling Inc., Nisshin Seifun Welna Inc., Oriental Yeast Co., Ltd., Nisshin Pharma Inc., Nisshin Seifun Delica Frontier Inc., Nisshin Engineering Inc., NBC Meshtec Inc.
Financial Capital
Our goal is to achieve sustainable growth based on a healthy balance with capital efficiency improvement and financial stability. We will accelerate our growth through strategic capital expenditure, M&A, and investment in human resource development and R&D. At the same time, we will continue to fulfill our social responsibility as a reliable provider of food infrastructure.
Intellectual Capital
The Nisshin Seifun Group creates new value through R&D combining the shared expertise of the parent company and group companies, as well as external resources.
Manufacturing Capital
We are enhancing our global competitiveness by procuring high-quality ingredients, by developing products to meet the needs of local customers in each market, and by optimizing our product development and production structures and sales networks.
- Note: Overseas factories produce wheat flour, premix, pasta-related products, frozen foods, yeast, and mesh cloth.
Strengths and advantages in each business area
Flour Milling Segment
We are the leading company in the domestic milling industry and are working to increase productivity and ensure reliable supplies. With production bases in North America, Oceania, and Asia, our overseas production capacity has grown to surpass our capacity in Japan.
Processed Food Segment
The Processed Food Business offers a wide variety of delicious and easy-to-prepare ambient temperature and frozen products for consumers. The business is expanding from Japan to worldwide.
- *Percentages represent shares of total market sales. The data periods for the No. 1 market shares for flour, pasta (spaghetti), pasta sauce, and frozen pasta (frozen cooked spaghetti and sauce) are April 2022- March 2023, for okonomiyaki pancake flour and tempura mix are April 2021- March 2023, and for karaage deep-fry mix April 2020- March 2023.
As Japan’s first manufacturer of bread yeast, the Yeast and Biotechnology Business contributes to a vibrant bread market by constantly introducing new technologies and developing and supplying yeast products from the customer’s perspective.
In this business area, we use our original technologies to carry out R&D, and to manufacture and sell safe, high-quality health foods, functional food ingredients, and pharmaceutical raw materials.
Prepared Dishes and Other Prepared Foods Segment
In this business area, we offer a full lineup of products in a wide variety of categories. Our focus is the application of our group-wide capabilities to product development and manufacturing process automation.
Others Segment
The Engineering Business has technologies and expertise spanning powder processing, equipment production and sales, and plant construction. The business has earned the trust of its customer base and is steadily expanding earnings outside of the Group as well.
Our technology in this business area has advanced from flour milling sieve nets to a wide range of mesh cloths. We supply high-performance mesh cloth for screen-printing applications in markets around the world, primarily for the electronics industry.
