House Foods

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House Foods Group Inc.
RevenueIncrease JPY 293.7 billion (FY 2020) (
US$ 2.8 billion) (FY 2020)
Increase JPY 11.5 billion (FY 2020) (US$ 108 million) (FY 2020)
Number of employees
6,122 (consolidated, March 31, 2020)
WebsiteOfficial website
Footnotes / references
[1][2][3]

House Foods Corporation (ハウス食品株式会社, 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

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

Fuji TV
.

As of 2013, House Foods operates under a holding company structure as House Foods Group Inc. (ハウス食品グループ本社株式会社, Hausu Shokuhin Gurupu Honsha Kabushiki-gaisha).

Subsidiaries

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

cream puff, crème brûlée, 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

  1. ^ "Company Overview". House Foods. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  2. ^ "About the company". Financial Times. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  3. Nikkei Inc. Archived from the original
    on May 23, 2022. Retrieved March 1, 2019.
  4. ISBN 978-1-928914-37-2
    .
  5. ^ "Past Ig Winners". Improbable Research. August 1, 2006. Retrieved December 28, 2021.
  6. S2CID 4407001
    .
  7. ^ Otts, Chris (April 29, 2021). "Tofu maker House Foods to establish Louisville plant". WDRB. Retrieved December 28, 2021.
  8. ^ Curry House locations
  9. ^ "About us - Establishment of Curry House Restaurants". CurryHouse.com. Retrieved July 22, 2014.
  10. ^ Nunes, Keith (November 13, 2012). "House Foods America acquires El Burrito Mexican Foods". Food Business News.

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