About Us
Quality Assurance
Guided by our Group Shared Policy on Quality & Food Safety, we contribute to better lives of our customers and consumers by providing safe and high-quality products and services. Our company upholds the Ajinomoto System for Quality Assurance (ASQUA), a statement of the whole Ajinomoto Group’s strong commitment to adhere to international standards like International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and a more stringent internal policy to ensure total quality management and continuous improvement.
Our History
Ajinomoto Philippines Corporation (APC) was established in May 9, 1958. Through the years, APC was able to grow its local business as more Ajinomoto products find their way to Filipino households. Its head office, sales offices and factories are collectively known as the APC Group. The APC Group’s mission is to bring happiness to every Filipino through our high quality products & services, that make every meal delicious, healthy and enjoyable.
APC’s complete line of quality food and seasoning products are produced from its own factories and by international affiliates and local toll manufacturers using Ajinomoto’s license, quality standards and technological expertise.
APC is directly servicing supermarkets, wholesalers, public markets and the food service industry and has established sales and support services with its industrial customers as supplier of raw materials, particularly ingredients for processed foods, animal nutrition and pharmaceutical products.
Ajinomoto Shared Value
The Ajinomoto Group sprung from a desire to improve human nutrition and health using umami. In 1908, Dr. Kikunae Ikeda identified glutamic acid, an amino acid found in kombu kelp broth (dashi). He named this taste “umami” and patented a method of manufacturing umami seasoning. Entrepreneur Saburosuke Suzuki II later marketed the umami seasoning AJI-NO-MOTO®. The Ajinomoto Group has since continued their work by addressing global social issues across the value chain through a wideranging business portfolio focused on food and AminoScience. The world today faces various challenges of varying proportions. Among those, the Ajinomoto Group has identified global sustainability, food resources, and healthy living as the three issues that the 21st-century human society is facing and that it has a responsibility to address through its business. In the FY2014–2016 Medium-Term Management Plan, the Group sets out actions to help resolve these issues with the unique business specialties focused on food and amino acids, and at the same time, to accelerate its business growth. All business activities should add both economic and social value. Going forward, the Ajinomoto Group believes all operations must seek to create and optimize “shared value,” or economic and social value combined. We call this Ajinomoto Group Creating Shared Value (ASV), and consider it to be the very core of operational activities. The Ajinomoto Group believes actively pursuing ASV will help in the quest to become a “Genuine Global Specialty Company.”
