Ishimitsu - Company

[Company] Active Business Development Using Worldwide Networks and "Professional Eyes" that Recognize True Quality

As a food trading company, S. ISHIMITSU & CO., LTD. will actively develop its business lines, using our worldwide networks and accumulated expertise in a wide variety of foodstuffs, under the mottoes: "providing better products at lower prices," "providing accurate information," and "streamlining and rationalizing distribution systems."

Food culture differs from one country to another, depending on climate, meteorological conditions, and values inherent in individual countries. Maintaining and improving food quality, therefore, requires greater and more continuous effort than the quality control of industrial products. At S. ISHIMITSU & Co.,Ltd, we continuously provide farmers and local processing plants with technological guidance for maintaining and improving product quality. We have also been active in accumulating quality control know-how; our efforts in this area have resulted in our acquiring of ISO 9001 certification for roasted coffee bean products.


	Inspection of Black Tea (India)

Several properties of coffee beans, such as weight, size, sugar content and acidity, can be measured and expressed in numerical figures. Measurement of these properties is most effective in maintaining uniform product quality. It is not numerical figures, however, that determine whether or not a product has a rich flavor and aroma. To determine these elements requires human sensitivity. To cultivate and sharpen such sensitivity, the Company actively dispatches its employees to Brazil and other coffee-producing countries, where they learn product features and processing methods unique to respective regions, through first-hand experience. In this way we are developing specialists in the Company's individual product lines.

Cup Testing (Brazil)

The food market is characterized by radical fluctuations in demand and price. To respond promptly to such changes, it is essential to gather precise information, estimate market trends accurately, and build a network linking various production centers. As an agent linking producers and consumers,
S. ISHIMITSU & Co.,Ltd collects up-to-date information from both sources, analyzes it using our wealth of know-how and long experiences as a food trading company, and feeds back only reliable information to our customers and suppliers. We also reflect the result of such information analysis in our technological guidance to producers and processing plants. Our worldwide network thus functions as an effective means of strengthening our partnership with related parties around the world.

Meeting (Vietnam)