From family-owned company to world market leader

Around 300 years after their forefathers had started to make excellent quality, naturally brewed soy sauce, the Mogi and Takanashi families founded in 1917 a company called "Noda Shoyu Co. Ltd.". In 1964, Noda Shoyu Co. Ltd. was renamed as "Kikkoman Shoyu Co. Ltd." and, in 1980, the company took on its present name, the "Kikkoman Corporation".

Today, Kikkoman is an international market player with a 6,500-strong workforce running operations in Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, China, Australia, Canada, the USA and Europe. Kikkoman has nine production facilities in Japan, the USA, Singapore, Taiwan, China and the Netherlands. Approximately 400 million litres of naturally brewed soy sauce leave these production facilities every year to stock the shelves of supermarkets, delicatessen stores and Asia shops.