Hiroyuki Tanaka

Part of Ajinomoto Co., Inc., F-LINE Corp. is a logistics company founded in 1952 and based in Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese company was established in April 2019 with investments from five food manufacturers, including Ajinomoto Co., Ltd., House Foods Group Inc., Kagome Co., Ltd., Nissin Foods Holdings Co., Ltd., and Nisshin OilliO Group, Ltd. F-LINE provides storage, transportation, and order-taking services for food and daily necessities, using a network that supports room temperature, frozen, refrigerated, and constant temperature products. The company also handles logistics for products in other fields, using different management methods, transportation means, and specialized logistics centers and vehicles. F-LINE aims to expand the functions, added value, and know-how it has developed in food logistics to the entire life-related industry, achieving sustainable logistics competitiveness. The company offers customized logistics services that make the most of its strict management know-how for food products.

Part of House Foods Group, Inc., House Foods Corp. is a food company based in Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese company offers a variety of food products and arrangement recipes, including a collaboration product between fruche & shalichi and calpis® and a collaboration between kokumaro curry and suntory gold. House Foods aims to contribute to customers' diet and health and deliver "deliciousness and ease" to promote home happiness.

Gaban Spice Manufacturing (M) Sdn. Bhd. processes and supplies steam sterilized herbs and spices. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Bukit Minyak, Malaysia.

Kagome Distribution Service Co., Ltd. engages in the warehousing and freight transportation businesses. It services include the sales and packaging of food stuffs and cargo handling equipment; cargo rental business; and property insurance agency business. The company was founded in March 1971 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.