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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...

The food OEM market is now enjoying unprecedented growth. Companies from other industries — retail, food service, startups, and more — are entering one after another, with voices saying "we want to make our own private-brand products." But if you fail in choosing a contractor for filling-and-processing OEM, you can face quality trouble, delivery delays, budget overruns...

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...

Food & Beverage OEM Expo is a business-oriented trade show specializing in PB (private brand) and OEM development of food and beverages. Many contract manufacturers exhibit, and developers from retailers, restaurants, wholesalers and manufacturers looking for new products for their own brands visit to find "companies that can make it" on the spot...

The West Japan Food Industry Creation Exhibition is one of the largest comprehensive commercial food shows in western Japan, held at Marine Messe Fukuoka. Food manufacturers, wholesalers, trading companies and buyers from restaurants and ready-meal businesses in Kyushu and western Japan gather, and you can see everything from raw materials and ingredients to processing technology, packaging and kitchen equipment in one visit. This art...

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...

京野菜のパウダー加工は、地域ブランドを原料レベルで商品に落とし込める数少ない選択肢です。九条ねぎ・万願寺とうがらし・聖護院大根・京くれない人参・京都産の柚子など、京都が長く育ててきた伝統野菜は、色・香り・ストーリー性のどれを取っても食品O...

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...

Japan's Food Export EXPO is a business-oriented trade show where you can pitch Japanese agricultural, livestock and fishery products, processed foods, beverages and seasonings directly to overseas buyers and export trading companies. It is held at Tokyo Big Sight as the core zone of JFEX, the comprehensive international food and beverage show, and since 2024 in early summer and late autumn...

The International Food Logistics EXPO (Food LogiX) is a specialized trade show bringing together businesses that handle the transporting, storing and delivering of food, from import and export to domestic delivery, storage, packaging and import-export consulting. It is held at Tokyo Big Sight as part of JFEX, the International Food & Beverage Trade Week...

Food Factory Week (formerly Food Tech Week) is a trade show for solving the challenges faced by food and beverage manufacturers' factories. Technologies for the making, packing and protecting side of operations, such as automation and labor-saving on production lines, hygiene management and HACCP compliance, visual inspection, resource recycling of food loss, and freezing and cold storage...

The Food Development Expo (HI JAPAN) is a specialist trade show that gathers ingredients, raw materials, functional ingredients, contract manufacturing and development, manufacturing and analysis technologies used in food R&D and product development in one place. Centered on Health Ingredients (Hi), it is distinguished by its focus on food ingredients and manufacturing technology, and visitors...

The Mail Order Food Exhibition and Business Meeting is one of the few specialized business meetings in Japan that brings together only businesses buying and selling food through non-store channels such as mail order, home delivery and e-commerce. Buyers from catalog retailers, co-ops, subscription and regular delivery services, and online supermarkets attend, and growers with carefully made foods from across Japan...

JFEX Winter (International Food & Beverage Trade Week) is a late-autumn food business week at Tokyo Big Sight bringing together specialized shows for processed foods, wine and alcoholic beverages, premium foods and fresh foods, as well as an export business show for Japanese foods. Because domestic and overseas buyers gather at the same venue, sourcing...

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...

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...

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...

A contributed article by Rei Kojima of Agriture Inc. was published in the column section of "Food OEM.com," an OEM matching platform specializing in the food industry. "Food OEM.com" is one of Japan's largest platforms disseminating a wide range of information on food OEM, from raw-material sourcing to manufacturing, packaging, and distribution...

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"...

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...

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...

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...

When considering food OEM, the first question is usually, "I want to make about this many, but how many bags will this factory accept at minimum?" Many people also want to start with a small lot of around 100 bags and proceed by testing in small steps. That instinct...

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...