① Offering products to everyone from infants to senior citizens premised on the notion of “Partnering Together for Life for a Health Body and Mind”
The products offered by the Morinaga Milk Group consist of items that are familiar to our customers throughout their lives, ranging from infant formula for newborns to Mt. RAINIER CAFFÈ LATTE, Bifidus Yogurt, ice creams, cheeses, health food, and home delivery products.
In addition, the Group maintains affiliations with Kraft, Sunkist and Lipton, top overseas brands, and provides many products used by people every day.
Since its founding in 1917, Morinaga Milk has been offering numerous products featuring deliciousness and health functionality derived from techniques we have developed involving dairy. We will remain committed to offering products to everyone premised on the notion of “Partnering Together for Life for a Health Body and Mind.”
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② We maintain numerous functional ingredients including Bifidobacteria and Lactoferrin
The Morinaga Milk Group engages various R&D initiatives under its R&D main theme which is to explore the great power of milk and make maximum use of its advantages. This enlists a long history of engaging in ingredient research spanning more than half a century, encompassing the discovery of Bifidobacterium longum BB536 some fifty years ago and milk protein “lactoferrin” which has been attracting attention since the 1960s. The Group has also established manufacturing technologies together with its many other functional ingredients, which have accordingly been put to use in numerous products.
Our Functional Ingredients
Extensive development and expansion of functional ingredients
The Morinaga Milk Group has been making progress in rolling out its own yogurts and other products amid a scenario where its functional ingredients have been greatly addressing needs emerging with respect to a growing awareness regarding health throughout society. The Group has furthermore been stepping out beyond the scope of the company in terms of also placing a focus on proposing solutions involving products and menus of its client enterprises. One example of this is LAC-Shield™ which is being used in processed foods and variety of other food products including take-away meals and restaurant foods.
③ MILEI GmbH of Germany provides dairy ingredients to manufacturers worldwide
The Morinaga Milk Group engages in the B-to-B business not only in Japan but also abroad. Morinaga Milk’s wholly-owned subsidiary MILEI GmbH of Germany produces and sells whey protein concentrate, lactoferrin and other dairy ingredients used in infant and toddler milk and nutritional food products for sports, and supplies such ingredients to global manufacturers. MILEI GmbH plays a central role within the Morinaga Milk Group, and is likely to keep achieving substantial growth going forward against a backdrop of an increasing worldwide population and rising demand.
