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Have you ever harbored the wish to make a food under your own brand? Entrants from other industries—retail, restaurants, startups—have become conspicuous. Behind this are the expansion of the food OEM market and an environment where you can now prototype even from small quantities...

Alongside rising health consciousness, interest in superfoods is expanding worldwide. Among them, moringa—called a "nutrient-rich tree"—is drawing attention from both its high nutritional value and sustainability. Moringa is a plant native to northwestern India, containing vitamin A, vitamin...

The Food & Beverage OEM Expo is a specialized business-matching trade show for companies wanting to develop and expand sales of private-brand (PB) and OEM (contract manufacturing) products in the food and beverage fields. It connects the “looking for a contractor” side—food and beverage makers, retailers, and mail-order businesses considering development—with the contracting side...

The 36th West Japan Food Industry Creation Fair ’26 is a specialized trade show themed on technological innovation and industrial development in food manufacturing and processing, held May 20–22, 2026 at Marine Messe Fukuoka in Fukuoka City. It covers a wide range of exhibits including food machinery, packaging and materials, hygiene and quality control, and sustainable manufacturing technology...

The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries will run a public-private business mission in Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi) on July 13–17, 2026. For food and agriculture-related companies, capacity is 20 with free participation. A briefing will be held on April 20.

On January 28, 2026, the Denmark-born food-loss-reduction app "Too Good To Go" entered the Japanese market. Registered users topped 250,000 within a week of launch, and it captured the No.1 overall ranking on the App Store. This speed shows that Japanese consumers...

Alongside rising health consciousness, the functional food market is expanding rapidly. At its core are the nutrient-rich raw materials called "superfoods." A superfood is a food with excellent nutritional balance that contains many kinds of beneficial components, or one in which a particular beneficial component stands out...

Alongside rising health consciousness, interest in superfoods is expanding rapidly. Among them, moringa—called a "nutrient-rich tree"—contains a wide range of nutrients such as vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium, iron, and amino acids, and is drawing attention as functional foods, powder products, and green-juice-type...

The strength of requesting ingredient-processing OEM in Kyoto lies in access to Kyoto vegetables, heirloom vegetables, and Kyoto-grown ingredients, and in a quality-control system backed by the culture of long-established makers and artisans. By combining processing techniques such as drying, powdering, and extract extraction with Kyoto-grown ingredients, you get something beyond mere OEM manufacturing—a...

Gift food OEM using Kyoto ingredients is a field that lets you add the value of the “Kyoto brand” to products—value that product development in other regions cannot deliver. In addition to Kyoto vegetables such as Kujo green onion, Shogoin daikon, Kamo eggplant, and Manganji pepper, and up to the pickles, tsukudani, Kyoto sweets, and dashi that Kyoto’s food culture has nurtured, ingredients...

Dried Kujo Negi powder is a commercial raw material made by drying and finely powdering the Kyoto heirloom vegetable "Kujo negi." Compared with white negi types, it has a gentler aroma and stronger sweetness, with a vivid green retained all the way to the leaf tips—it is adopted in food OEM for topping instant noodles, furikake, and adding color and aroma to baked-good dough...

Powder processing of Kyoto vegetables is one of the few options that lets you translate a regional brand into a product at the raw-material level. Kujo green onion, Manganji pepper, Shogoin daikon, Kyo-kurenai carrot, Mizuo yuzu—the heirloom vegetables Kyoto has long nurtured excel in every respect: color, aroma, and story. Food OEM...

Right now, product development that makes use of “regional individuality” is drawing attention. Among these, foods using heirloom vegetables and Kyoto vegetables are strongly supported for the gift market and inbound-oriented products, thanks to their visual beauty and rarity. Especially now, with inbound tourists increasing, region...

Getting plenty of vegetables every day is the foundation of health. But in reality, many people can't get enough vegetables for reasons such as "I'm too busy to spend time cooking," "my kids dislike vegetables and won't eat them," or "I just don't like the taste." Against that backdrop...

Do you know the success story of Umaji Village in Kochi Prefecture? A small village with a population of fewer than 1,000 achieved annual sales of 3 billion yen with yuzu processed products. Overcoming the crisis of forestry's decline, it accomplished a miraculous revival through product development that made the most of local resources. Behind this success lay meticulous product planning...

The “Japanese Food” Export EXPO is an international trade show where domestic food manufacturers exhibit to expand sales channels to overseas markets. It is held at Makuhari Messe from December 3 (Wed) to 5 (Fri), 2025. It covers a wide range of fields including agricultural, livestock, and marine products, beverages, seasonings, processed foods, and confectionery...

JFEX Winter (7th International Food & Beverage Business Week) is an international business-matching trade show specialized in the food and beverage fields. It is held at Makuhari Messe from December 3 (Wed) to 5 (Fri), 2025. It comprises five specialized areas covering processed foods, wine and spirits, premium foods, fresh foods, and inbound-oriented foods...

The “Japanese Food Export EXPO” is a specialized trade show supporting the overseas development of Japanese food. Targeting a wide range of product genres—agricultural and livestock products, marine products, processed foods, beverages, seasonings, and frozen foods—food manufacturers and producers from across the country exhibit. Overseas buyers, export trading companies, retail and restaurant businesses...

The International Food Logistics EXPO is a specialized trade show that brings together technology and services supporting the front lines of logistics and distribution in the food and beverage industry. It covers a wide range of fields themed on the efficiency and optimization of the entire food supply chain—transport, storage, packaging, freezing and refrigeration, inspection, traceability, and logistics DX...

Food Factory Week is a specialized trade show gathering the latest technology and solutions in the food manufacturing and processing industry. A wide range of companies exhibit under the theme of solving on-site challenges such as food factory automation, labor-saving, DX promotion, hygiene management, quality assurance, and food loss reduction. At the venue, the efficiency of production lines...

The Food Development Exhibition 2026 is one of Japan’s top exhibitions, bringing together every field that supports food development—ingredients, technology, manufacturing, safety and hygiene, and food long-life. It runs October 14–16, 2026, at Tokyo Big Sight West Halls 1, 2, and 4 and the Atrium. It is organized by Informa...

The “Mail-Order Food Exhibition & Business Meeting” is Japan’s only exhibition and business meeting specialized in the mail-order and delivery food industry, bringing together food manufacturers from across the country with mail-order, EC, and buyers in one place. Held on October 29 (Wed) and 30 (Thu), 2025 at the Tokyo Kotsu Kaikan in Yurakucho, Tokyo, exhibiting companies focus on PB development,...

Food Factory Week is a trade show for solving challenges faced by food manufacturing and processing sites through the latest technology and solutions. It is held at Makuhari Messe from December 3 (Wed) to 5 (Fri), 2025. It centers on four themes: automation, labor-saving, and DX; hygiene and safety measures; food loss reduction; and improving the workplace environment...

The International Food Logistics EXPO is a specialized trade show focused on the import/export and domestic logistics of food. It is held at Makuhari Messe from December 3 (Wed) to 5 (Fri), 2025. It brings together every logistics solution involved in food distribution—packaging, cold storage, transport, inventory management, and import/export support services...

Selecting safe ingredients for developing a treat that people and pets can eat together. Under the concept of “something people and dogs can eat together every day,” we carefully selected safe ingredients for treat development together with One’s Daily, which makes additive-free treats. Furthermore, so people and pets alike can enjoy...

A flavored tea using dried Kujo green onion wins a Japanese Tea Award. Aida LLC provides experiences of time and space by making use of diverse cultures—food, art, aroma, music, and more—centered on the tea ceremony and Japanese tea. At the company’s shop located in Minami-ku, Kyoto City, “a Japanese tea space to enjoy time”...

Dried vegetables adopted at a topping bar for choosing the future. OYAOYA dried vegetables were adopted at Hoshi no Kitchen inside the “ITOCHU SDGs STUDIO” in Kita-Aoyama, Tokyo. A feature is incorporating sustainable ingredients into classic menus familiar to everyone from children to adults. Dried...

Maple & apple granola using dried apple. Under the mission “fermenting the earth,” Oryzae Co., Ltd. manufactures and sells sugar-free, additive-free, gluten-free granola and rice-koji sauces centered on rice koji. We provided dried apple, and...

Commercializing an attention-grabbing fruit tomato from Kyotango. We received the “yarisugi tomato”—grown in Kumihama, Kyotango, in an environment so harsh it is called an “athlete vegetable,” with sweetness and tartness packed densely—from Wada Farm and made it into a product. High-sugar tomatoes are hard to dry...

A project toward establishing radish as a regional specialty. This is a project started as a means of regional revitalization, initiated by Mr. Nomura, who grows radishes in the Kyotamba area of Kyoto. Agriture CEO Kojima supported the web system construction and the back end including SNS...

Yasai Yakuzen, balancing the body with vegetables. Together with YAKUZEN TOKYO Co., Ltd., we launched the “Yasai Yakuzen” service—a way of eating that balances the body from within using “familiar vegetables” available at supermarkets. Even the vegetables we casually eat, when appropriately chosen and appropriately cooked from a yakuzen perspective...

About Buddy’s Farm. Buddy’s Farm (Odawara City, Kanagawa) is an agricultural corporation known for growing somewhat rare mini tomatoes. About six years since founding, it has shipped to local direct sales and restaurants while committing to varieties with thin skins and strong individual flavor. Making use of that know-how, last year...

A dried vegetable assortment set perfect for “Nissin Raoh.” For Nissin Foods Co., Ltd., to coincide with “Food Loss Reduction Day” on October 30, we had them adopt a “dried vegetable assortment set” perfect for the company’s flagship product “Nissin Raoh.” Adoption details: on Food Loss Reduction Day...

OYAOYA dried vegetables adopted | Selected for the second round of Nippon Paper Crecia’s “Action for Smile Campaign.” In the second round of Nippon Paper Crecia Co., Ltd.’s “Action for Smile Campaign,” which has been running since May 2025, products of our operated dried vegetable brand “OYAOYA”...

A dried vegetable series using Phytorich. We produced dried vegetables using vegetables from the Phytorich series developed by Takii & Company, Limited, known for its “vegetables with a good reason.” From that series, we used “Kyo-kurenai carrot,” “Orange carrot,” and “Healthy oku...

Our work with Sakura Renkon. Sakura Renkon (Sakura City, Chiba) is an agricultural corporation specializing in growing and selling lotus root. After working in Tokyo, representative Yuma Matsumoto took up farming, and after training, regenerated an abandoned black-soil paddy field. Using only organic fertilizer and no chemical fertilizer, the soil...

Producing novelty items for the 3×3 team “Zigexn Updaters.” We produced items themed on the official character “Shogotan”—a “Kyoto vegetable” motif—of “ZIGExN UPDATERS.EXE (Zigexn Updaters),” a professional 3×3 (three-on-three basketball) team owned by Zigexn Co., Ltd....

Producing dried tomato in a collaboration with Beppin Farm. In a collaboration with Beppin Farm, operated by Kubota Corporation, we produced dried tomato using tomatoes grown at Kubota Farm, operated within the Kubota Group, for the company’s internal use...

Dried vegetables take the lead! Creating recipes for “dishes you’ll want to eat once a week.” At “Chefon,” an online cooking class operated by Kai Corporation, we created video and recipe content for all 8 “dishes you’ll want to eat once a week” using dried vegetables with concentrated umami, proposed by Michelin one-star “Ichirin” owner Mikizo Hashimoto...

About the Nara Prefecture Miwa Somen Industrial Cooperative. The Nara Prefecture Miwa Somen Industrial Cooperative is an organization that keeps protecting the hand-stretched method handed down over generations in the Miwa area, said to be Japan’s oldest somen-producing region. About 80 producers are currently affiliated, making Miwa somen with a commitment to fineness, firmness, and smooth throat feel...

食品業界に特化したOEMマッチングプラットフォーム「食品OEMコム」のコラム欄にて、株式会社Agriture・小島怜の寄稿記事が公開されました。 「食品OEMコム」は、原料調達から製造・パッケージ・流通まで、食品OEMに関する幅広い情報を発信する国内最大級の...

You want to make a food under your own brand. More and more companies are thinking this way. Entrants from other industries—retail, restaurants, startups—are becoming more active, and the food OEM market continues to expand. On the other hand, cases such as "the product didn't turn out as expected" or "costs exceeded expectations"...

More and more companies want to roll out their own brand products in the food industry. Entrants from other industries—retail, restaurants, startups—are becoming more active, and inquiries such as "we want to prototype from small quantities" and "we want to make a product that leverages our strengths" are rapidly increasing...

The food OEM market is at a turning point. Not only major companies but also retailers, restaurants, and startups—entrants from other industries are surging. Voices saying "we want to make our own brand product" and "we want to try prototyping from small quantities" are rising like never before. Behind this...

You want to launch your own brand product in the food industry. More and more companies harbor this wish. But if you go for mass production from the start, the risk of holding inventory rises, so it's important to partner with a food factory that can accommodate "small lots." This article covers small-lot-capable...

With a stream of entrants from other industries—retail, restaurants, startups—inquiries saying "we want to make our own brand product" never stop. But what many companies face is the challenge of "how to find a manufacturing partner they can trust." With trade shows and referrals alone...

The market for furusato tax (hometown tax) donations continues to expand year after year. For municipalities, return gifts are an important means of broadcasting a region's appeal nationwide. But quite a few operators struggle with worries like "how do we develop an attractive product" or "we can't put together a manufacturing setup on our own"...

Black tea OEM is a contract service for planning and manufacturing original black tea products under your own brand. You outsource everything—selecting tea leaves, blend design, flavoring, and packaging—to a specialist black tea manufacturer, allowing you to roll out black tea products bearing your own name from small lots. D2C, cafés, hotels, food...