Now ideas for wellness

About Meiji

At a Glance

At a Glance

Get to know Meiji at a glance – from our core business to our most important numbers.

Food

Our Nutrition Initiatives

Our Nutrition Initiatives

Our goal is to improve the lives of people of all ages around the world through nutrition, from infants to older adults, and we are dedicated to achieving this goal.

Pharmaceuticals

R&D

Medical needs are always diversifying – here's how Meiji is responding.

CEO Message

The Meiji Group's Commitment to Creating Value for Wellness

Kazuo Kawamura
CEO
President and Representative Director
Meiji Holdings Co., Ltd.

For more than a century, the Meiji Group has been enriching lives by sharing great tastes, health, and happiness with people of all ages. In 2021, we renewed our group slogan to "Now ideas for wellness" , aiming to expand the value unique to Meiji with an added focus on wellness.

Our goal is to achieve the Meiji Group 2026 vision, established in 2018, which reflects our commitment to creating value by developing innovative solutions in the areas of food and health. To fulfill this goal, we will expand our global presence using one of our founding spirits as a starting point: "Contribute to the Country through Nutrition". At the same time, we will incorporate new technologies and knowledge into the strengths developed over our 100-year history.

The past few years have introduced many challenges to the economy, society, and daily lifestyles around the world. The pandemic, the situation in Russia and Ukraine, and the soaring costs of raw materials and energy have impacted us all in different ways. New risks and instability in the global supply chain have affected agriculture and dairy farming as well.

The Meiji Group operates businesses in many of these industries. However, such uncertainties reaffirm our mission to ensure a stable supply of life-saving products, whether it's pharmaceuticals, such as antibacterial drugs and vaccines, or medically necessary foods, such as infant and enteral formulas. We remain dedicated to fulfilling this mission because these products, along with the nutritional foods and pharmaceuticals we supply, are directly linked to solving the various health challenges we face in today's society.

To that end, the final year of the Meiji Group's "2023 Medium-term Business Plan" will represent a period of preparation for the next medium-term plan, focusing on the following initiatives.

First, we will restore business growth potential. In the food business, we will continue to address rising costs and increase the added value of our products. Also, we will enact structural reforms to improve production efficiency and maximize our earnings base. In the pharmaceutical business, we will strengthen development and launch new vaccines in the area of infectious diseases, where demand is rising against the backdrop of the pandemic.

Second, we will cultivate the next growth drivers. Our food business will see accelerated expansion overseas, especially in China, while we continue to develop and introduce new products in the pharmaceutical industry. Additionally, research and development at the Wellness Science Lab will create impactful synergies between food and pharmaceuticals and develop new business categories by inspiring open innovation.

The third initiative will further the evolution of "Meiji ROESG®*1" , which was the highest priority goal of the "2023 Medium-term Business Plan". This indicator combines ROE, signaling profitability, and ESG, to evaluate value created by the Group. It expands our efforts to deepen Group-wide sustainability management by evaluating financial (economic) value and non-financial (social) value.

Through such evaluation, we aim to advance the integration of sustainability and business (trade-on*2), creating new businesses in the process. Furthermore, a fresh focus on human resources and intellectual property management will supplement a stronger management foundation. These strategies will help us achieve sustainable corporate growth while we continue to spread positivity and happiness through our actions.

I look forward to sharing this journey with you and appreciate your ongoing support in the years ahead.

June 2023

*1 ROESG is a registered trademark for a management indicator developed by Kunio Ito, a professor at Hitotsubashi University.
*2 Trade-on is the simultaneous pursuit of creating social value (sustainability) while enhancing corporate value.