Japanese food manufacturer
House Foods Group Inc.
|
House Foods head office
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Native name
| ハウス食品グル?プ本社株式?社
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Company type
| Public
(
K.K
)
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| TYO
:
2810
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ISIN
| JP3765400001
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Industry
| Food
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Founded
| November 11, 1913
; 110 years ago
(
1913-11-11
)
as Urakami Shoten
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Founder
| Seisuke Urakami
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Headquarters
| ,
Japan
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Area served
| Worldwide
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Key people
| Hiroshi Urakami
(
President
)
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Products
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Revenue
| JPY
293.7 billion (
FY
2020)
(
US$
2.8 billion) (FY 2020)
|
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| JPY 11.5 billion (FY 2020)
(US$ 108 million) (FY 2020)
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Number of employees
| 6,122 (consolidated, March 31, 2020)
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Website
| Official website
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Footnotes / references
[1]
[2]
[3]
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House Foods Corporation
(
ハウス食品株式?社
,
Hausu Shokuhin Kabushiki-gaisha
)
is one of Japan's largest
food manufacturers
and brands. It began in 1913 in Osaka as Urakami Shoten and began selling curry in 1926.
[4]
House Foods
is the world's largest manufacturer of
Japanese curry
,
[
citation needed
]
and is well known for its Japanese curry brands,
Vermont Curry
and
Java Curry
. It is also a major manufacturer of
spices
such as
wasabi
,
shichimi
,
yuzukosh?
, and
black pepper
. In addition, House Foods manufactures mixes and roux for various
y?shoku
including
cream stew
,
beef stew
,
chowder
,
Hayashi rice
,
mabo tofu
,
sund?bu-chige
,
Bolognese sauce
,
oden
broth,
fried rice
,
Hamburg
, and
gratin
;
instant ramen
such as
Umakacchan
; snacks such as
Tongari Corn
and
potato chips
;
desserts
such as
Fruiche
,
pudding
,
sherbet
, and
jelly
; and drinks such as
oolong tea
,
mugicha
, and
lassi
. It also owns
Ichibanya
, a Japanese curry restaurant with over 1,400 outlets around the world, and operates the Hungry Bear Restaurant at
Tokyo Disneyland
and the Casbah Food Court at
Tokyo DisneySea
. House Foods also engages in
food technology
, notably developing the tear-free onion
Smile Ball
(Goldies in the US), created by removing the tear-producing lachrymatory agent
syn-propanethial-S-oxide
, which won its creators the 2013
Ig Nobel Prize
in
Chemistry
.
[5]
[6]
House Foods is also well-known for collaborating with renowned entertainers such as
Arashi
,
Hey! Say! JUMP
,
AKB48
,
Nogizaka46
,
Takuya Kimura
and
Masahiro Nakai
of
SMAP
,
Tsubasa Honda
,
Hikaru Nishida
,
Rurouni Kenshin: The Final
Actress
Emi Takei
, former leader of
Morning Musume
Miki Fujimoto
, and
Gen Hoshino
. As a sponsor of TV programs, House Foods is known for the
World Masterpiece Theater
on
Fuji TV
.
As of 2013, House Foods operates under a holding company structure as
House Foods Group Inc.
(
ハウス食品グル?プ本社株式?社
,
Hausu Shokuhin Gurupu Honsha Kabushiki-gaisha
)
.
Subsidiaries
[
edit
]
Its subsidiary
House Foods America Corporation
is the largest provider of
tofu
products in the United States.
[7]
House Foods America Corp. has tofu plants in
California
and
New Jersey
with a combined capacity of manufacturing 350,000 pieces of tofu per day. Its largest competitor in the U.S. tofu market is
Vitasoy
, followed by
Morinaga Milk Industry
.
House Foods America Corp. formerly operated the Japanese curry restaurant chain
Curry House
. It had nine locations
[8]
across California. Its first opened at Weller Court Shopping Center in
Little Tokyo, Los Angeles
in 1983.
[9]
House Foods sold Curry House in 2019. Its new owners closed the chain permanently on Monday, February 24 of 2020.
In 2016, House Foods acquired
Ichibanya
which operates Japan's largest curry restaurant chain,
Curry House CoCo ICHIBANYA
, with over 1400 outlets across the United States, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Hong Kong, South Korea, Vietnam, the United Kingdom, the Philippines, and Japan and soon India. It also operates a spaghetti chain Pasta de Coco.
In addition, House Foods produces high-end and commercial spices through its subsidiaries
Gaban
and
Asaoka Spice
, vitamin drinks such as
C1000 (?料)
, popular anti-hangover drink
Ukon no chikara
, and health products such as Immuno-LP20 under its subsidiary
House Wellness Foods
,
cellophane noodles
or
vermicelli
through its subsidiary
Malony
, meat substitute food products and
salsa
through its subsidiary
El Burrito Mexican Food Products Corporation
,
[10]
MRE
convenience store
food products in Japan such as
bread
,
spaghetti
,
salad
,
cream puff
,
creme brulee
, and
bento
through its subsidiary
Delica Chef
, vitamin drinks in Thailand through its subsidiary
House Osotspa Foods
, and engages in the import and export of food products and agricultural commodities through
Vox Trading
.
References
[
edit
]
- ^
"Company Overview"
. House Foods
. Retrieved
March 1,
2019
.
- ^
"About the company"
.
Financial Times
. Retrieved
March 1,
2019
.
- ^
"Company Profile"
.
Nikkei Asian Review
.
Nikkei Inc.
Archived from
the original
on May 23, 2022
. Retrieved
March 1,
2019
.
- ^
Shurtleff, William
; Aoyagi, Akiko (July 2011).
How Japanese and Japanese-Americans Brought Soyfoods to the United States and the Hawaiian Islands--A History (1851-2011): Extensively Annotated Bibliography and Sourcebook
. Soyinfo Center. p. 276.
ISBN
978-1-928914-37-2
.
- ^
"Past Ig Winners"
.
Improbable Research
. August 1, 2006
. Retrieved
December 28,
2021
.
- ^
Imai, S.; Tsuge, N.; Tomotake, M.; Nagatome, Y.; Sawada, H.; Nagata, T.; Kumagai, H. (2002).
"Plant biochemistry: An onion enzyme that makes the eyes water"
.
Nature
.
419
(6908): 685.
Bibcode
:
2002Natur.419..685I
.
doi
:
10.1038/419685a
.
PMID
12384686
.
S2CID
4407001
.
- ^
Otts, Chris (April 29, 2021).
"Tofu maker House Foods to establish Louisville plant"
.
WDRB
. Retrieved
December 28,
2021
.
- ^
Curry House locations
- ^
"About us - Establishment of Curry House Restaurants"
.
CurryHouse.com
. Retrieved
July 22,
2014
.
- ^
Nunes, Keith (November 13, 2012).
"House Foods America acquires El Burrito Mexican Foods"
.
Food Business News
.
External links
[
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]