Meat Products
Leveraging our accumulated know-how as an industry leader in the meat products business, we build meat product value chains, from securing raw ingredient sources to processing and sales, to provide a stable supply of safe, reliable, high-value-added products that meet customer needs.
The Meat Products Division provides our customers with a wide range of livestock products in general, covering raw materials including live cattle, beef, pork, chicken, and mutton as well as livestock processed goods. We promote safe and secure, highly value-added products to meet our customer’s needs, combining our processing and logistics functions. We are also committed to our mission of maintaining a stable supply system of our products and making proactive efforts to diversify suppliers for overseas procurement, as well as to strengthen our partnership with overseas packers.
We aim to become the best company offering the best services and goods in the domestic industry. We are also committed to scaling out our ongoing business model in the Asian market that is our primary focus. Through creating and strengthening domestic and global value chains, we strive to expand our business.
Making the most of Kanematsu Group’s overall strength to provide safe and secure livestock products, we are committed to contributing to the dietary habits of people in Japan and Asia, as well as to raising the quality of the lives of people in local communities.
Toru Hashimoto
Executive Officer
COO, Meat Products Division
Key Businesses and Locations
Business Environment
- Expansion of imports due to reduced import tariffs rates under the TPP11, the European Union’s EPA, and the United States’ TAG
- Growing demand for meat products in Asian markets
- Growing consumer awareness of safety and reliability issues
- Advance business investment and M&A to reinforce domestic sales capabilities by strengthening functions within the Meat Products group
- Extend business models used in Japan to expand meat product businesses in Asian markets
- Step up initiatives undertaken with current suppliers and cultivate new production sites to develop safe, secure, high-value-added products with a stable supply stream
- Supply shortages due to conflicts, pandemics, or animal disease outbreaks
- Raw ingredient price fluctuations
- Decrease in Japan-bound supply availability due to growth in demand for meat products in other Asian markets
- Future protein supply shortages due to global population growth
- Diversify production sites to better distribute suppliers
- Diversify customers and expand processing businesses to mitigate price fluctuation risk
- Reinforce procurement capabilities by deepening initiatives with suppliers
- Enter the meat substitute market
Three Value Propositions Informed by Medium- to Long-Term Outlook and Groupwide Management Goals
(Key Capital)
- Intellectual capital
- Wealth of expertise and a product lineup amassed over time as a pioneer in the meat product industry boasting one of the industry’s top market shares
- Human capital
- Expert human resources with practical experience in meat product production, processing and distribution, as well as the ability to create and manage businesses
- Social and relationship capital
- Relationships of trust with business partners in Japan and overseas built up over time
Business
- Serch by "dept.& business"
- Serch by "products & service"
Group companies
- Japan
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Kanematsu Foods Corp. Food wholesaling and cold storage
- China
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Dalian Matsutomo Foods Co., Ltd. Primary processing of beef in China
- Uruguay
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Agropecuaria La Escalera S.A.S. Breeding, raising and feeding of live cattle and producing of feed grain