Processed food business

Overview

We want everything we make to be delicious in every way - but that is not all. We set out to fill meals with joy and make the dining table a fun, lively place to be. Together with our fellow food lovers, will stay focused on our customers’ daily lives and address the wide array of issues in the evolving, diversifying world of food and continue to inspire fulfilling moments that enrich life through food.

We are mindful of the environmental impacts of our products and operations, and we make continuous improvements to these wherever possible.

Our processed food business value chain*

Processed food business value chain
  • * This diagram represents the value chain of products for frozen and ambient foods. We do not deal directly with raw material producers - such as growers - who provide raw materials to the trading firms or to the contracted factories that supply us.

Processed food business sustainability strategy

We operate the processed food business based on our purpose, "Bringing Joy to Meals and Fun to the Table". In 2019, we selected the three focus areas below and set eight specific targets for these focus areas.

Focus areas Aspirational goals
Products and services

We will continue to provide high-quality, technology-driven products in response to our customer's needs, to satisfaction and trust.

People

We will ensure workplace safety for our employees, while continuously investing in people who can contribute to enhancing corporate value.

Supply chain

We will reduce social and environmental impacts and continue to deliver safe products to consumers.

The eight specific targets of our processed food business contribute to achieving the goals set out in the JT Group sustainability strategy.

Our business operation and sustainability

In the processed food business, we are working to develop and provide high-value-added products so that everyone can freely enjoy what they want to eat, while staying close to the diversifying values and interests of our customers. As part of this effort, TableMark Co., Ltd. is working to provide authentic and delicious free-from food in the "BEYOND FREE" category, where specific raw materials and ingredients are excluded.

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