Category: Market News

Beans are rich in nutrition, and it is a traditional food that has been eaten in Japan for a long time, but new products for eating in new forms have emerged. A-net Farm Tokachi (Shimizu-cho, Hokkaido) has started to sell dipping sauce called “Fermented Azuki” which is made by fermenting …

ROYAL HOLDINGS has started the summer curry fair at “Royal Host”. “Tandoori-Chicken Pilaf” is popular. SKYLARK Holdings has added “Spicy Butter Chicken Curry with Naan” to the “GUSTO” summer menu. MOS FOOD SERVICES sell “Curry MOS Burger” at “MOS BURGER” for the first time in four years.

Asahi Group Holdings Inc., a major Japanese beer company, announced that it will acquire Carlton & United Brewery, a major beer company in Australia, for $ 11.3 billion (approximately 1,210 billion yen). As the beer market in Japan shrinks, Asahi positions its flagship “Super Dry” as a high quality product …

Chinese restaurant “Bamiyan” has started selling “Puccin pudding afogard” developed jointly with Ezaki Glico etc. They piles vanilla ice, four kinds of mixed berry, frozen “Putchin pudding” on Tapioca. The family restaurant “Cocos” has released parfait and frappe of shaved ice and tapioca using fruit sauce and milk. “Takashimaya” has …

Gyudon is a Japanese dish consisting of a bowl of rice topped with thinly sliced beef and onions. The chain of Gyudon restaurents “Sukiya” (Zensho Holdings) has started their service called “Mobile Order” with a smartphone. They want to run restaurants efficiently and reduce the wait time for customers.

Sapporo Brewery will open its first antenna shop for its main product, Sapporo draft beer black label, in Ginza, Tokyo in July. With the aim of providing a “perfect draft beer”, they will focus on quality and service, and wait on customers in a standing style. Ginza is the place …

Sushiro, a sushi chain in Japan, opened its sixth store in April this year for the popular sushi izakaya “Sushi, Sake and Sakana”.　They aim to open 100 stores in the next three years. They serve seafood menu such as sashimi and nigiri sushi for 299 yen at a flat price …

At “koe donuts”, the customers can see how the donut is cooked and decorated in front of their large open kitchen. They are also committed to the ingredients, serving donuts contained Japanese ingredients, preparing donuts to eat with a knife and fork, and providing new types of donuts. They opened …

Stamina Don that is a bowl of rice with pork on top for a total weight of 600g is said to be “Middle Size” at the “Densetsu No Suta-don”, that Ant Works (Tokyo, Nakano) operates. The reason for its popularity is high cost performance and some seasonal menus available to …

The HUB that operates a British-style pub opens a new style of pub that combines the “HUB” popular with around 20-year-old people, and the “82 (Eight toe)” popular with around 50’s. Offering cocktails and full-fledged whiskey and the adult-like interior, they want to capture around 30-year-old people.

They developed a new type of restaurants that use touch panels for the seating area at large-scale commercial facilities. They enhance their taste and service, and then serve high-class foods.

Ganko Food Service (Osaka City), which operates the Japanese-style restaurant “Ganko”, will make overseas business this fall. The number of overseas visitors is increasing at Ganko in Japan, and they will also hope to attract overseas visitors coming back from Japan. They serve the same foods as in Japan.

Kisoji, which operates Japanese restaurants, opened its first Japanese-style pub “Sakaba Diana” that offers Kushiyaki and Sushi in Tokyo. They will open 30 stores around the Kanto region in the next 3 years. Customers who come to existing restaurants were mostly male. Setting prices lower, they are aiming to acquire …