Morinaga Milk Industry opens its new subsidiary, Morinaga Nutritional Foods (Asia Pacific) in Singapore.
A vigorous demand for dairy products has been developing in Southeast Asian countries recently. Particularly in the emerging economies of Asia, the need for better infant nutrition is driving a strong demand for ingredients with higher quality.
Morinaga Milk began to expand globally in 1972 with its German subsidiary, Milei GmbH, and has been actively expanding exports of its functional and food ingredients, such as probiotics, lactoferrin and whey protein to leading infant formula manufacturers for long years.
The Singapore subsidiary will handle Morinaga Milk’s functional and food ingredients – Bifidobacterium longum BB536 and other probiotics, whey proteins, lactose, lactoferrin and hydrolysates that are used in high-value nutritional products such as infant formulas.
“Singapore is now becoming a focal point for major global infant formula manufacturers and raw material suppliers as a location to strengthen their sales activities in Southeast Asia and Pacific Rim countries, thus we selected Singapore for the base of our ingredient sales activity in the region,” said Ko Shiino, GM of international department.
“Our ingredients, such as probiotics, whey proteins and hydrolysates have been used in our own various food products with great success in Japan for many years, and have been also sold as raw materials overseas.”
“We are well prepared to take this step to expand our ingredient business in the area and contribute to human health and nutrition throughout the world.”
