Two hundred and ten brand guides to food and drink brands across Asia and the Pacific.
These guides cover the household food and drink names of Asia and the Pacific, many of them little known outside their home markets.
East Asia
From Japan: Kewpie, Calbee, Mizkan, Ajinomoto, Kirin, Suntory and Pocari Sweat. From China, Hong Kong and Taiwan: Haday, Wahaha, Master Kong, White Rabbit, Yili, Tsingtao, Kee Wah and Uni-President. From Korea: CJ CheilJedang, Ottogi, Binggrae, Jinro and Sempio.
South and Southeast Asia
From India: Amul, Haldiram’s, Parle, Britannia, MDH and Thums Up. From Southeast Asia: ABC, Kapal Api, Vinamilk, Trung Nguyên, Mae Ploy, Singha, Krating Daeng, Datu Puti, Jack ’n Jill, Ayam Brand, F&N and OLDTOWN White Coffee.
Australia and New Zealand
Golden Circle, Bundaberg, Uncle Tobys, MasterFoods, Bega, Streets, Wattie’s, Griffin’s and Anchor.
How to use these guides
Each guide covers who owns the name today, where the products are made — by the maker’s own account and, where it differs, by other sources — and the brand’s visual identity. A company’s description of itself is attributed to the company, and where a business has closed we say so plainly. The table at the end gathers the essentials.
Asian pantry and drinks
Yakult, Calpis, Kewpie, Lao Gan Ma, Huy Fong Foods, Ottogi and Pocky.
- Yakult — The fermented milk drink Minoru Shirota began selling in Fukuoka in 1935, named from the Esperanto for yogurt, delivered by Yakult Ladies since 1963 and sold since 1968 in a plastic bottle designed by Isamu Kenmochi, registered as a 3D trademark in 2010.
- Calpis — The cultured-milk concentrate Kaiun Mishima launched in Tokyo on Tanabata, 7 July 1919, after meeting soured milk in Inner Mongolia; wrapped in Milky Way polka dots since 1922, sold as Calpico in some markets, owned by Ajinomoto from 2007 and by Asahi since 2012.
- Kewpie — The Tokyo company that began as Shokuhin Kogyo in 1919, launched Japan’s first mayonnaise in March 1925 with egg yolks only, named it after Rose O’Neill’s Kewpie character, and added the red mesh and squeezable bottle in 1958 and the star-shaped nozzle in 1972.
- Lao Gan Ma — The Guiyang chilli-sauce maker that Tao Huabi grew from a roadside stall and a snack shop into a factory in 1996, whose jars carry her portrait, which Xinhua reported in 2024 sells in 160 countries and regions, and which stays unlisted and family-run.
- Huy Fong Foods — The hot sauce company David Tran started in Los Angeles’ Chinatown in 1980, named after the freighter that carried him out of Vietnam, which makes three chili sauces in Irwindale, California, and has never spent money on advertising.
- Ottogi — The South Korean food company Ham Tae-ho founded in 1969 with Korea’s first powdered curry, named after a roly-poly toy, which added ketchup, mayonnaise and the 3-Minute retort meals, launched Jin Ramen in 1988 and dresses most of its packs in yellow.
- Pocky — The chocolate-coated biscuit stick Ezaki Glico launched in Osaka in 1966, with one end left bare as a handle, sold in Europe as Mikado since 1982, celebrated every 11 November since 1999 and certified by Guinness World Records in 2020.
Indian food
MDH, Everest, Haldiram’s, Amul, Parle, Britannia and MTR.
- MDH — Mahashian Di Hatti, the spice shop Chunnilal Gulati ran in Sialkot from 1919, which his son Dharampal Gulati restarted in Delhi’s Karol Bagh in 1948 after Partition, industrialised from 1959 and turned into a brand with his own face on its packs and ads.
- Everest — The Mumbai spice brand Vadilal Shah registered in 1967 and launched with Milk Masala, Garam Masala and Tea Masala, which grew from a 200 sq ft shop to factories in Mumbai and Umbergaon, built its advertising around mothers’ cooking and signed Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan.
- Haldiram’s — The snack and sweets brand that began as Ganga Bhishen Agarwal’s bhujia shop in Bikaner in 1937, split into family branches in Kolkata, Nagpur and Delhi, merged its Delhi and Nagpur snack businesses and agreed a Temasek stake sale in 2025.
- Amul — The dairy brand of the Kaira farmers’ cooperative registered at Anand, Gujarat, in 1946 under Tribhuvandas Patel, built up by Verghese Kurien, marketed since 1973 by the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation, and advertised by the polka-dot Amul girl since 1966.
- Parle — The Mumbai biscuit and sweets maker that set up its first factory in Vile Parle in 1929, baked Parle Gluco in 1939, renamed it Parle-G around 1980 and kept the illustrated child on its pack, and whose name is shared with the separate Parle Agro and Bisleri businesses.
- Britannia — The biscuit company started in a Calcutta house in 1892, incorporated as the Britannia Biscuit Company in 1918, once a Peek Frean subsidiary, controlled since the 1990s by Nusli Wadia’s group, and known for Good Day, Marie Gold, Tiger and the “ting ting ti-ting” jingle.
- MTR — The packaged-food brand that grew out of Bengaluru’s Mavalli Tiffin Rooms, founded in 1924 by Yagnanarayana Maiya and his brothers, whose food business was sold to Norway’s Orkla in 2007 and now trades as Orkla India, while the Maiya family still runs the restaurant.
Japanese snacks and food
Calbee, Lotte, Kracie, Bourbon, Tohato, Kameda Seika and House Foods.
- Calbee — The snack maker founded in Hiroshima in 1949 by Takashi Matsuo, named for calcium and vitamin B1, which launched Kappa Ebisen in 1964 and potato chips in 1975, moved its head office to Tokyo in 1973 and has had PepsiCo as its largest shareholder since a 2009 alliance.
- Lotte — The confectioner founded in Tokyo in June 1948 by Shin Kyuk-ho (Takeo Shigemitsu) to make chewing gum, named after Charlotte in Goethe’s Werther, maker of Green Gum, Ghana chocolate and Koala’s March, with a separate Korean arm founded in Seoul in 1967.
- Kracie — The Tokyo company formed from Kanebo’s household, kampo and food businesses in 2006 and renamed Kracie in 2007, owned by the Hoyu group since 2009, whose Foods Company makes Neruneru Nerune, the Popin’ Cookin’ DIY candy kits and Fuwarinka rose candy.
- Bourbon — The Kashiwazaki, Niigata confectioner founded in 1924 by Kichizo Yoshida as Kita-Nihon Seika, which adopted the Bourbon name in 1961 and as its company name in 1989, maker of Lumonde (1974) and Alfort (1994) and still led by the Yoshida family.
- Tohato — The Tokyo snack maker founded in 1952 as Tokyo Seika under a dove brand, maker of Caramel Corn (1971) and Harvest (1978), rebuilt after a 2003 rehabilitation with Unison Capital and Bandai, and a Yamazaki Baking subsidiary since 2006.
- Kameda Seika — The Niigata rice-cracker maker that began as a farmers’ syrup works in Kameda in 1946, became a company in 1957 under Eiji Koizumi, adopted its red hexagonal tortoise-shell mark in 1965, and sells peanut-filled Kaki no Tane (1966) and Happy Turn (1976).
- House Foods — The Osaka company Seisuke Urakami founded in 1913 as a herbal-medicine dealer, which made curry from 1926, launched House Curry in 1928, Vermont Curry in 1963 and Java Curry in 1968, makes tofu in the US and has owned a majority of CoCo Ichibanya since 2015.
Japanese condiments
Mizkan, Ajinomoto, S&B, Kagome, Otafuku, Bull-Dog and Yamasa.
- Mizkan — The vinegar maker of Handa, Aichi, begun in 1804 by Matazaemon Nakano with vinegar brewed from sake lees, whose three-lines-and-a-circle mark was registered in 1887 and which now owns Branston, Sarson’s and the US Ragú and Bertolli sauces.
- Ajinomoto — The Tokyo company built on Kikunae Ikeda’s 1908 identification of umami and Saburosuke Suzuki II’s 1909 launch of AJI-NO-MOTO, whose marks run from a 1970 Mitsuo Katsui symbol and a Saul Bass logo to the red AJINOMOTO of 1999 and the 2017 global logo.
- S&B — The Tokyo spice company that dates itself to 1923, when Minejiro Yamazaki set up Higashiya in Asakusa to make curry powder, registered the S&B mark for “sun” and “bird” in 1931, launched its Red Can curry powder in 1950 and Golden Curry in 1966.
- Kagome — The Japanese tomato company that began in 1899 when Ichitaro Kanie grew tomatoes in Aichi, made tomato sauce in 1903 and ketchup in 1908, registered its basket-weave star mark in 1917, took the Kagome name in 1963 and adopted a tomato logo in 2003.
- Otafuku — The Hiroshima company that began in 1922 as Sasaki Shoten, a soy-sauce and sake shop, brewed Otafuku vinegar from 1938, launched a sauce for okonomiyaki in 1952 and its first household Okonomi Sauce in 1957, and remains owned by the Sasaki family.
- Bull-Dog — The Tokyo sauce maker that opened in 1902 as the food wholesaler Misawaya Shoten, made sauce from 1905, put a bulldog mark on its labels in the 1920s, launched its chuno sauce in 1966 and fought off a 2007 takeover bid from Steel Partners in Japan’s Supreme Court.
- Yamasa — The Choshi soy sauce brewer founded in 1645 by Hamaguchi Gihei from Kishu, whose mark joins a mountain sign and the katakana sa, whose “上” was added after an 1864 shogunate title, and which opened a brewery in Oregon in 1994.
Korean and Southeast Asian food
CJ CheilJedang, Haitai, Binggrae, Paldo, Khong Guan, Yeo’s and Ayam Brand.
- CJ CheilJedang — The Seoul food company founded by Lee Byung-chul in 1953 as Samsung’s first factory, a Busan sugar refinery, which left Samsung from 1993, launched Dasida in 1975 and Hetbahn rice in 1996, and bought America’s Schwan’s in 2019 to take its bibigo dumplings worldwide.
- Haitai — The Seoul confectioner founded in 1945 and named after the haetae, the lion-like guardian of Korean legend, which survived its parent group’s collapse after 1997, came under Crown Confectionery’s control in 2005, and set off a national craze with Honey Butter Chip in 2014.
- Binggrae — The South Korean dairy founded in 1967 as Daeil, which launched Banana Flavored Milk in its jar-shaped bottle in 1974, took the Binggrae (“smile”) trademark in 1976, created Melona in 1992 and since 2016 has released free typefaces drawn from its own logos.
- Paldo — The Seoul food company that began as Korea Yakult’s ramen brand in 1983, launched Paldo Bibimmyeon in 1984 and the square Dosirak cup noodle in 1986, saw Dosirak become Russia’s Doshirak, and has been a separate company since 2012.
- Khong Guan — The biscuit maker founded in Singapore in 1947 by the brothers Chew Choo Keng and Chew Choo Han, and the Indonesian company, begun in 1956, whose red tin with a mother and two children at the table became a fixture of Lebaran.
- Yeo’s — The Yeo Hiap Seng brand, begun by Yeo Keng Lian as a soy sauce shop in Zhangzhou in 1901 and re-established in Singapore in 1938, known for Asian drinks such as chrysanthemum tea and soy milk, and controlled since the 1990s by the Ng family’s Far East Organization.
- Ayam Brand — The canned-food name begun in Singapore in 1892 by Alfred Clouet of Le Havre, whose rooster cans led customers to call it the “chicken brand” in Malay, and which the Denis Frères trading house bought in 1954. It sells sardines, tuna, coconut milk and baked beans.
Malted drinks and Asian snacks
Ovaltine, Horlicks, Bournvita, Mamee, Julie’s, Munchy’s and Pearl River Bridge.
- Ovaltine — The malt drink created as Ovomaltine by Albert Wander in Bern in 1904, sold in Britain as Ovaltine from 1909, made at Neuenegg since 1927, owned by Associated British Foods since 2002 and by Nestlé in the US since 2007, and famous for Little Orphan Annie decoder badges.
- Horlicks — The malted milk founded by brothers James and William Horlick in Chicago in 1873, patented in 1883, made in Racine and from 1906–08 in Slough, owned by Beecham, SmithKline Beecham and GSK, and now split between Aimia Foods in the UK (2017) and Hindustan Unilever (2020).
- Bournvita — The Cadbury malted chocolate drink developed in England in the late 1920s and named after the Bournville factory village, made in Australia from 1933, sold in India since 1948 and the sponsor of the Bournvita Quiz Contest since 1972, now a Mondelez International brand.
- Mamee — The Malacca, Malaysia snack maker founded by Pang Chin Hin in 1971 as Pacific Food Products, whose failed Lucky noodles became the Mamee Monster snack in 1974, which added Double Decker crackers and Mister Potato, and which the Pang family took private in 2012.
- Julie’s — The Alor Gajah, Melaka biscuit maker selling under the Julie’s name since the 1980s, known for Peanut Butter Sandwich and Love Letters, whose girl logo was refreshed to look up and whose biscuits the company says reach more than 80 countries.
- Munchy’s — The Batu Pahat, Johor biscuit maker started by the Tan brothers in 1991 with a second-hand wafer-stick machine, maker of LEXUS, MUZIC and Oat Krunch, sold to CVC in 2018 and to the Philippines’ Universal Robina in 2021.
- Pearl River Bridge — The Guangdong soy sauce brand created in the late 1950s as an export label, named after Guangzhou’s Haizhu Bridge, whose logo has drawn that bridge since its first years and which is now run by GuangDong PRB Bio-tech within the state-owned Guangxin group.
Filipino food
Datu Puti, Silver Swan, Mang Tomas, Lucky Me!, Rebisco, Magnolia and Century Tuna.
- Datu Puti — The Philippine vinegar brand launched in 1975 by the Reyes family, named for the white of palm vinegar, made famous by the early-1980s “Mukhasim” sour-face campaign with Pugak, and now the condiment megabrand of NutriAsia.
- Silver Swan — The Philippine soy-sauce brand that NutriAsia says began in Malabon in the early 1940s under Sy Bun Suan, whose name gave it the “Swan,” and which NutriAsia bought from the Suan family in 2014.
- Mang Tomas — The Philippine lechon sauce that NutriAsia says was created in the late 1980s at a small Manila lechon stall, which joined Datu Puti and Papa in the SAFI venture of the early 1990s and is now sold by NutriAsia as an “All-Around Sarsa” at home and an all-purpose sauce abroad.
- Lucky Me! — The Monde Nissin instant-noodle brand launched in the Philippines in 1989 with chicken and beef mami, which added Pancit Canton dry noodles in 1991 and a cup noodle in 1995, and which Kantar’s Brand Footprint reports have ranked the country’s most chosen consumer brand.
- Rebisco — The Republic Biscuit Corporation, the private Philippine snack company founded in 1963 by Jacinto L. Ng Sr. as England Biscuit Factory in San Juan, renamed in 1972, maker of Rebisco crackers and Choco Mucho, rebranded with Y&R Philippines from 2011.
- Magnolia — The San Miguel Corporation food brand, traced to William J. Schober’s Manila ice cream business and bought by San Miguel Brewery in 1925, with a 1970 Aurora Boulevard plant by Leandro Locsin; now made by Magnolia, Inc. under San Miguel Food and Beverage.
- Century Tuna — The Philippine tuna brand founded in 1978 by Ricardo S. Po Sr., a former journalist and advertising man whose firm designed the SM logo, now made by the listed Century Pacific Food, with General Santos City operations and its long-running Superbods fitness search.
Thai sauces and snacks
Mae Ploy, Tao Kae Noi, Healthy Boy, Squid Brand, Golden Mountain, Lobo and Chaokoh.
- Mae Ploy — The sauce and curry-paste brand of Theppadungporn Coconut, the Chaokoh company, made at its third factory in Sampran, Nakhon Pathom, from 1993, and named, the company says, after the heroine of Kukrit Pramoj’s novel Four Reigns.
- Tao Kae Noi — The crispy seaweed snack of Taokaenoi Food & Marketing, registered in 2004 by Itthipat Peeradechapan, whose story became the 2011 film The Billionaire, listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand in 2015 and made in Thailand from imported nori.
- Healthy Boy — The Dek Somboon soy-sauce brand of Bangkok’s Yan Wal Yun, which the company dates to a Silom Road factory in 1947, which moved production to Samut Sakhon in 1980, began exporting in 1985 and now sells i-Chef and Maxchup sauces alongside its soy sauce.
- Squid Brand — The fish sauce of Thai Fishsauce Factory (Squid Brand) Co., Ltd., which the company says Tien Nithipitigan founded in 1944, based in Bangkok’s Talat Noi with plants in Samut Prakan and Samut Songkhram, making anchovy fish sauce it exports to more than 70 countries.
- Golden Mountain — Phu Khao Thong, the seasoning-sauce brand of Thai Theparos Public Company Limited of Samut Prakan, listed in Bangkok as SAUCE, whose green-cap bottle the company calls Thailand’s best seller for more than 60 years.
- Lobo — The Thai seasoning brand of Globo Foods of Samut Prakan, known for small sachets of curry paste, seasoning mixes and dessert powders, which received Thai SELECT certification at THAIFEX – Anuga Asia in 2022.
- Chaokoh — The coconut milk brand of Theppadungporn Coconut Co., which grew from a coconut trade started in Thonburi in 1946 by Ampol and Jariporn Theppadungporn, opened its first factory at Sam Phran, Nakhon Pathom, in 1976 and takes its name from the Thai word for “islander.”
Australian food and drink
Golden Circle, Bundaberg, Uncle Tobys, Rosella, MasterFoods, Leggo’s and Bega.
- Golden Circle — The Brisbane pineapple cannery opened at Northgate in 1947 by a Queensland growers’ cooperative, first trading as Queensland Tropical Fruit Products, which grew into juices, cordials and canned vegetables and was bought by Heinz in 2008.
- Bundaberg — The family-owned Queensland soft-drink brewer whose Fleming family bought Electra Breweries in Bundaberg in 1968, renamed it Bundaberg Brewed Drinks in 1995, and sells brewed ginger beer in a stubby bottle with a rip-top cap; not the Diageo-owned rum.
- Uncle Tobys — The oats name registered in Sydney in 1893 by the tea importers Clifford, Love & Co, taken from a character in Tristram Shandy, which passed through CPC, Best Foods, Goodman Fielder and Burns Philp before Nestlé bought it in 2006 and is made at Wahgunyah, Victoria.
- Rosella — The Melbourne preserves and tomato-sauce brand begun in a Carlton backyard in 1895 by H.R. McCracken and T.J. Press, named after the parrot, owned by Unilever from 1963, closed in receivership in 2013 and revived the same year by Sabrands Australia with production in Victoria.
- MasterFoods — The Australian herbs, spices and sauces brand that Henry Lewis launched on 20 July 1945 from a Sydney import business begun in 1926, which started manufacturing with Bread and Butter Cucumbers around 1950, was bought by Mars in 1967 and is made on the New South Wales Central Coast.
- Leggo’s — The tomato paste and pasta sauce brand of Simplot Australia, which traces to a Bendigo business founded in 1881 that Henry Madren Leggo, son of Cornish immigrants, bought in 1894; it took an Italian image from 1975 and its paste is made in Echuca, Victoria.
- Bega — The cheese name of a dairy co-operative founded in 1899 in Bega, New South Wales, which listed on the ASX in 2011, bought Vegemite and Mondelez’s Australian grocery business in 2017, won the yellow peanut butter jar in court and turned its corporate brand green in 2022.
Australian ice cream, sweets and dairy
Peters, Streets, Allen’s, Twisties, Smith’s, Sanitarium and Pauls.
- Peters — The Australian ice cream brand founded in Sydney in 1907 by the American Fred Peters as Peters’ American Delicacy Co., known for red-and-cream and green-and-cream colours, owned by Nestlé, Pacific Equity Partners and R&R, and part of Froneri since 2016.
- Streets — The Australian ice cream brand that Ted Street began in Corrimal, NSW, in 1920, registered as Streets Ice Cream Ltd in 1934 and sold to Unilever in 1960, maker of Paddle Pop and Golden Gaytime, made in Minto and owned since 2025 by The Magnum Ice Cream Company.
- Allen’s — The Melbourne confectioner founded by Alfred Weaver Allen, who began making sweets behind his Fitzroy shop in 1891, which merged with rival makers in 1917, lit up South Melbourne with a giant neon sign, was sold in 1985 and is now a Nestlé brand made in Broadford, Victoria.
- Twisties — The Australian cheese-flavoured corn and rice snack first made in the 1950s, linked in different accounts to General Foods and to the Melbourne businessman Isador Magid and Darrell Lea’s Lea brothers, made by Smith’s since the 1960s and owned by PepsiCo since 1998.
- Smith’s — The Australian chip brand first made in Sydney’s Surry Hills in 1931 by Frank Smith and George Ensor after Smith’s London crisp business, re-formed in 1932, known for colour-coded packs and the Gobbledok, and owned by PepsiCo through Frito-Lay since 1998.
- Sanitarium — The food company registered in Melbourne in 1898 and owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific, which bought Weet-Bix in 1928, launched So Good in 1984 and UP&GO in 1998, and makes New Zealand’s Marmite.
- Pauls — The Queensland dairy brand registered as Pauls Polar Perfections in South Brisbane in 1933, which introduced square milk bottles in 1948, merged with the Queensland Peters companies into QUF in 1960, launched Breaka in 1985 and passed to Parmalat in 1998 and Lactalis in 2011.
Indonesian and Vietnamese food
ABC, Bango, Kapal Api, Teh Botol Sosro, Vinamilk, Trung Nguyên and Mayora.
- ABC — The Indonesian sweet soy sauce, sambal and syrup brand founded in Jakarta in 1975 as CV Central Foods by Chandra Djojonegoro and Chu Sok Sam, in which H. J. Heinz bought a 65% stake in 1999, and which English Wikipedia now lists under Kraft Heinz.
- Bango — The Indonesian sweet soy sauce begun in 1928 as a home business in Benteng, Tangerang, by Tjoa Pit Boen, which Unilever Indonesia acquired in 2001, took full control of in 2007 and renamed from “Kecap Bango” to plain “Bango” in 2008.
- Kapal Api — The coffee Go Soe Loet began selling in Surabaya in 1927, named after the steamship as a symbol of modernity and luxury, built by his son Soedomo Mergonoto into PT Santos Jaya Abadi of Sidoarjo and today’s family-run Kapal Api Group.
- Teh Botol Sosro — The Sosrodjojo family’s jasmine tea, sold dry as Teh Cap Botol in Slawi from 1940, bottled from 1970 and renamed with a new bottle in 1974, when PT Sinar Sosro opened its first plant at Cakung in Jakarta; red-and-white lettering and a red circle.
- Vinamilk — The Vietnam Dairy Products company formed in 1976 from three nationalised southern dairy plants, renamed Vinamilk in 1992, equitised in 2003, listed in Ho Chi Minh City in 2006, and given a new wordmark identity in July 2023.
- Trung Nguyên — The coffee company founded in Buôn Ma Thuột in 1996, which opened its first Ho Chi Minh City café in 1998, franchised across Vietnam, launched G7 instant coffee in 2003 and relaunched itself as Trung Nguyên Legend in 2018.
- Mayora — The Indonesian food and drink group whose roots go back to a Jakarta family’s home biscuit baking in 1948, which was set up as a company in 1977 with a first factory in Tangerang, launched Kopiko coffee candy in 1982 and listed on the Jakarta stock exchange in 1990.
Southeast Asian coffee, tea and sauces
Prima Taste, Indocafe, Kopiko, Acecook, Chin-su, OLDTOWN White Coffee and BOH.
- Prima Taste — The Singapore sauce-kit and LaMian noodle brand launched in 1998 by Primus Cheng of Prima Limited, the company founded in 1961 as Singapore’s first flour mill, which set out to bottle hawker dishes such as laksa for Singaporeans abroad.
- Indocafe — The instant-coffee brand of PT Sari Incofood Corporation of Medan, North Sumatra, founded in 1985, whose Indocafe Coffeemix of 1989 Indonesian Wikipedia calls Indonesia’s first 3-in-1 coffee, and which the company says now reaches more than 30 countries.
- Kopiko — The coffee candy Mayora Indah launched in Indonesia in 1982, which grew into instant coffee mixes in 1991 and ready-to-drink coffee in 2001, and which a Seoul importer has placed in more than a dozen Korean dramas since 2021.
- Acecook — The Osaka company Keiji Muraoka began as a bakery in 1948, which made its first instant noodles in 1959 with a piglet-chef mascot, launched Wantanmen in 1963 and, through its Vietnamese venture of 1993, created Hảo Hảo in 2000.
- Chin-su — The sauce and seasoning brand of Vietnam’s Masan Consumer, whose soy sauce dates to 2002 and fish sauce to 2003, now spanning chilli sauces, seasoning granules and cooking sauces, made by a company that traces its roots to 1996 and Nguyễn Đăng Quang’s Masan.
- OLDTOWN White Coffee — The Ipoh, Malaysia, coffee maker founded in 1999 by Goh Ching Mun and Tan Say Yap, which built a three-in-one white coffee, opened kopitiam-style cafés from 2005, listed on Bursa Malaysia in 2011 and was taken private by Jacobs Douwe Egberts in 2018.
- BOH — The Malaysian tea brand of BOH Plantations, founded in 1929 in the Cameron Highlands by J. A. Russell, named after the Bohea hills of Fujian, still run by the Russell family, and known for Cameronian Gold Blend and the “BOH Ada Ummph!” tagline.
Chinese food and drink
Haday, Wahaha, Master Kong, Want Want, White Rabbit, Totole and Vitasoy.
- Haday — The soy sauce and oyster sauce brand of Foshan Haitian Flavouring & Food, formed in 1955 when 25 Foshan sauce shops merged, bought out by its employees in 2007, listed in Shanghai in 2014 and in Hong Kong in 2025, and named by English Wikipedia as the world’s largest soy sauce maker.
- Wahaha — The Hangzhou drinks brand founded in 1987 by Zong Qinghou from a school-run shop, named after a folk song, built on a children’s nutrition drink of 1988, AD Calcium Milk and purified water, and fully Chinese-owned again after its 2009 settlement with Danone.
- Master Kong — The instant-noodle and drinks brand of Tingyi (Cayman Islands) Holding, begun in Tianjin in 1991 by the Wei brothers of Changhua, Taiwan, whose braised beef noodle went into mass production in August 1992; listed in Hong Kong since 1996, with Sanyo Foods a major shareholder.
- Want Want — The snack and dairy brand that grew from I Lan Foods, a 1962 canning company in Yilan, Taiwan; Tsai Eng-meng took charge in 1977, the Wangzai mascot appeared in 1979 and the brand in 1983, with Japan’s Iwatsuka Confectionery on rice crackers. Listed in Hong Kong since 2008.
- White Rabbit — The Shanghai milk candy first sold as ABC Mickey Mouse sweets in 1943, renamed after the factory was nationalised in 1956 and given as a 10th National Day gift in 1959, made today by Guan Sheng Yuan, part of the Shanghai government’s Bright Food group.
- Totole — The Shanghai chicken-essence brand founded in 1988 by Rong Yaozhong, whose Jiading factory opened in 1989, which took the Totole name in 1996, hired Ogilvy for its first TV advertisement in 1998 and joined Nestlé in 1999.
- Vitasoy — The Hong Kong soy milk Lo Kwee-seong launched in 1940 as Vitamilk, renamed Vitasoy in the 1950s, sold in Tetra Pak cartons from 1975, made in Tuen Mun, mainland China, Singapore and Wodonga, and advertised as “more than just a soft drink.”
Southeast Asian food
SilverQueen, Garudafood, Nabati, F&N, Marigold, Hup Seng and Gardenia.
- SilverQueen — The Indonesian cashew-and-milk-chocolate bar introduced in the 1950s by the Chuang family’s Ceres business, first made in Garut, West Java, and now in Bandung, and today the flagship brand of Singapore-listed Delfi Limited, formerly Petra Foods.
- Garudafood — The Indonesian snack and drinks company whose roots go back to Darmo Putro’s Tudung tapioca business in Pati, Central Java, in 1958, which sold Garuda peanuts from 1990, added Gery and Chocolatos, and listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2018.
- Nabati — The Bandung snack group behind PT Kaldu Sari Nabati Indonesia, which grew from a household-scale snack business into a wafer maker with factories across West Java, launched Richeese Nabati in 2006 and opened the Richeese Factory fried-chicken chain in 2011.
- F&N — Fraser and Neave, the Singapore company that John Fraser and David Chalmers Neave turned from printing to aerated water in 1883, which bottled Coca-Cola from 1936 to 2011, launched 100PLUS in 1983 and has had Thailand’s TCC Group as majority shareholder since 2013.
- Marigold — The dairy and juice brand of Malaysia Dairy Industries, incorporated in Singapore in 1963 as a joint venture with the Australian Dairy Produce Board, fully Singapore-owned from 1969, maker of HL Milk, Peel Fresh and Vitagen, and made in Malaysia by Malaysia Milk since 1977.
- Hup Seng — The Batu Pahat biscuit maker begun as a partnership of four Kerk brothers in the late 1950s, whose Cap Ping Pong cream crackers date from 1958, which built its own factory in 1964, moved to Tongkang Pecah in the early 1980s and listed on Bursa Malaysia in 2000.
- Gardenia — The bread brand that began in 1978 as a small in-store bakery at Bukit Timah Plaza with the American baker Horatio “Sye” Slocumm, opened a Pandan Loop bakery in 1983, was bought by QAF in the mid-1980s and spread to Malaysia & the Philippines.
Indian food
Bikaji, Lijjat, Mother Dairy, Nandini, Aashirvaad, Kissan and Ching’s Secret.
- Bikaji — The Bikaner snack brand launched in 1993 by Shiv Ratan Agarwal, grandson of Haldiram founder Gangabishan Agarwal, which grew from the 1986 partnership Shivdeep Food Products, listed in 2022 and refreshed its logo with a royal shield and a turban curve.
- Lijjat — Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad, the women’s organisation started on a Girgaum rooftop in Mumbai on 15 March 1959 by seven Gujarati women with a borrowed Rs 80, named after the Gujarati word for “tasty” in 1962, recognised by KVIC in 1966 and now run by its member-sisters.
- Mother Dairy — The dairy commissioned in 1974 as a wholly owned subsidiary of India’s National Dairy Development Board under Operation Flood, which sells milk across Delhi NCR and also owns the Safal fruit-and-vegetable business and the Dhara edible-oil brand.
- Nandini — The brand of the Karnataka Co-operative Milk Producers’ Federation, which grew from a 1955 dairy at Kudige in Kodagu and a World Bank-backed project of the 1970s, sells milk, curd, ghee and sweets, and won a trademark appeal over its name in 2026.
- Aashirvaad — The ITC staples brand launched as a packaged whole-wheat atta in May 2002, which grew into salt, spices, instant mixes and ghee, sources wheat through ITC’s e-Choupal network and dresses its atta pack in a Madhubani-style farming scene.
- Kissan — The Indian jam, ketchup and squash brand that Hindustan Unilever says started in 1934, which the UB Group bought in 1950, Brooke Bond India acquired in 1993 and which joined Hindustan Unilever when Brooke Bond Lipton India merged into it in 1996.
- Ching’s Secret — The Desi Chinese sauce, noodle and chutney brand that Ajay Gupta’s Mumbai company Capital Foods says it launched in 1996, known for its Schezwan Chutney and Ranveer Singh’s “Ranveer Ching” films, and bought by Tata Consumer Products under a deal agreed in January 2024.
Philippine and Thai food
Jack ’n Jill, Ligo, Mega, Oishi, Goldilocks, Lactasoy and Dutch Mill.
- Jack ’n Jill — The snack brand of the Gokongwei family’s Universal Robina Corporation, which says it opened the Philippine salty-snack market in 1966 with Chiz Curls, Chippy and potato chips, and which now spans chips, cakes, biscuits and sweets across Asia.
- Ligo — The Philippine canned-sardine brand that Gregory Tung Sr.’s A. Tung Chingco distributed for California’s Liberty Gold from 1945 or 1954, began canning locally around 1980, and whose licence the Tung family says it acquired in 2018.
- Mega — The Philippine sardine brand whose maker says it began as a fishing group in Bicol in 1975, moved to Zamboanga in 1995, opened its first cannery there in 2000 and launched Mega Sardines the same year, before adding Mega Tuna, Mega Prime and the Mega Prime Foods subsidiary.
- Oishi — The Philippine snack brand of Liwayway Marketing Corporation, a family firm founded in 1946 repacking corn starch and coffee, which launched Oishi Prawn Crackers in 1974, built its first overseas factory in Shanghai and sells as Shanghaojia in China.
- Goldilocks — The Philippine bakeshop opened in Makati on 15 May 1966 by sisters Milagros Leelin Yee and Clarita Leelin Go with their sister-in-law Doris Wilson Leelin, named after the fairy tale for “gold” and “luck,” franchised from 1991 and majority-owned by SM Investments since 2021.
- Lactasoy — The Thai soy milk launched in 1981 by Kickapoo (Thailand), a soft-drink firm whose roots go back to the Kiang Hua partnership set up in 1950 by Viriya Jirapattanakul; renamed Lactasoy Co., Ltd. in 1993, it dropped sodas in 1996 and dated its logo “Since 1981” in 2019.
- Dutch Mill — The Thai dairy brand registered in 1984 as Pro Food Co., Ltd. by a group of Kasetsart University food scientists, renamed Dutch Mill in 1991, with factories in Nakhon Pathom and Nakhon Sawan and, in the Philippines, distribution by Monde Nissin since 2006.
New Zealand and Australian food
Cottee’s, Griffin’s, Wattie’s, Eta, Bluebird, Anchor and Mainland.
- Cottee’s — The Australian cordial and jam name started by Lismore dairy farmer Spencer Cottee with a passionfruit drink, Passiona, which passed to General Foods and Cadbury Schweppes, was split in 2007–2008 between Heinz (jams, as licensee) and Asahi (cordial), and sells Coola lime cordial.
- Griffin’s — The New Zealand biscuit maker that grew from John Griffin’s 1864 flour and cocoa mill in Nelson, gained Toffee Pops and Cookie Bear from Hudson’s in 1990, passed through Nabisco, Danone, Pacific Equity Partners and Universal Robina, and has been owned by Intersnack since 2021.
- Wattie’s — The Hastings food maker formed in 1934 by James Wattie and Harold Carr as J. Wattie Canneries, known for its tomato sauce, baked beans and baby food, which merged into Goodman Fielder Wattie in 1987 and was bought by H. J. Heinz in 1992.
- Eta — The nut, peanut-butter and potato-chip brand the Abel family introduced in Auckland in 1949, whose name the company says is short for “Eat a nut,” which Griffin’s bought in 1987 and whose spreads and dressings went to Heinz Wattie’s in 1998.
- Bluebird — The Auckland potato-chip brand that the company says grew from Les Saussey’s popcorn and chips at Western Springs Speedway and opened its doors in 1953, passed through Goodman Fielder and Burns Philp, and has belonged to PepsiCo since 2006, with snacks made at Wiri.
- Anchor — The New Zealand butter brand Henry Reynolds started in the Waikato in 1886, sold to the New Zealand Dairy Association in 1896, carried into Fonterra in 2001 and, after Fonterra agreed in August 2025 to sell its consumer brands, now owned by France’s Lactalis.
- Mainland — The New Zealand cheese brand that grew from Peter McConnon’s 1954 Otago cheese contract, was launched in 1955, built a Dunedin plant in 1966, ran its “Good Things Take Time” advertising from 1993, passed through Kiwi Co-op and Fonterra, and was sold to Lactalis in 2026.
Chinese dairy and drinks
Yili, Mengniu, Bright Dairy, Nongfu Spring, Wong Lo Kat, JDB and Tsingtao.
- Yili — The Hohhot dairy group that grew from a 1956 cattle-breeding cooperative, became a joint-stock company in 1993, listed in Shanghai in 1996, supplied the 2008 Beijing Olympics and bought New Zealand’s Westland in 2019.
- Mengniu — The Hohhot dairy founded in 1999 by former Yili executive Niu Gensheng, which sold milk as astronaut milk in 2003, launched Telunsu in 2005, took COFCO as its largest shareholder in 2009 and redrew its 22-year-old logo in 2021.
- Bright Dairy — The Shanghai dairy of the state-owned Bright Food group, whose Guangming (Bright) name was given to a factory’s ice lollies in 1952, which traces its roots to the Culty dairy of the foreign settlements, became a company in 1996 and listed in Shanghai in 2002.
- Nongfu Spring — The Hangzhou water and drinks company founded by Zhong Shanshan on 26 September 1996, which bottled Qiandao Lake water in a red pack from 1997, sold only natural water from 2000 until a green-bottle purified water in 2024, and listed in Hong Kong in September 2020.
- Wong Lo Kat — The Guangzhou herbal tea (王老吉, Wanglaoji) that its maker dates to 1828 and Wang Zebang, which was nationalised after 1949, licensed to Hong Kong’s Hung To Group for the red can from 1995, and has been made in red cans by Guangzhou Pharmaceutical since May 2012.
- JDB — The herbal tea (加多宝, Jiaduobao) of Chan Hung To’s Hong Kong Hung To Group, which made Wong Lo Kat in red cans in mainland China under licence from 1995, renamed its cans JDB in May 2012 after an arbitration ruling, and also sells Kunlunshan mineral water.
- Tsingtao — The Qingdao brewery founded in 1903 by British and German merchants as the Germania-Brauerei, sold to Japan’s Dai-Nippon in 1916, state-owned from 1949, the first Chinese company listed in Hong Kong in 1993, and whose logo shows the Huilan Pavilion on Zhanqiao Pier.
Chinese and Taiwanese snacks and drinks
Three Squirrels, Daoxiangcun, I-Mei, Kuai Kuai, Uni-President, Wei Chuan and C’estbon.
- Three Squirrels — The Wuhu, Anhui snack company founded in February 2012 by Zhang Liaoyuan, which began selling nuts on Tmall, built its brand around three cartoon squirrels and calling customers “master,” and listed on Shenzhen’s ChiNext board in July 2019.
- Daoxiangcun — The Beijing pastry maker that traces itself to a southern-style shop opened near Qianmen in 1895, closed in 1926 and revived in the early 1980s, and that shares its name, and a long court dispute, with the older Daoxiangcun of Suzhou.
- I-Mei — I-Mei’s identity: the Taipei food company that Kao Fan-wang and Kao Chen Hsiu-ying opened as the I-Mei Store bakery in Dadaocheng in 1934, named after an 1871 family dye shop, which moved into dairy after the war and supplied fast-food chains in the 1980s.
- Kuai Kuai — Kuai Kuai’s identity: the Taiwanese corn-puff snack launched in 1968 by a Taipei drug company founded by Liao Chin-kang, now owned by Sandi Group, whose green coconut-flavour bag is placed on servers, ATMs and lab equipment as a good-luck charm.
- Uni-President — The Tainan company founded in 1967 by Wu Hsiu-chi and Kao Ching-yuen to mill flour and make feed, which launched Uni noodles in 1970, brought 7-Eleven to Taiwan, opened a China arm in the 1990s and has used its “P” wing mark since 1990.
- Wei Chuan — The Taipei food company founded in 1953 by Huang Lieh-ho to make MSG, which added soy sauce, canned food and dairy, adopted a red five-dot “W” mark, and has been controlled by the Wei family’s Ting Hsin group, owners of Master Kong, since 1998.
- C’estbon — The 怡寶 Yibao water first sold in Shenzhen in 1990 by China Longhuan (Shekou), controlled by Vanke from 1991 and China Resources from 1996, redesigned as the “green bottle” in 2001, and listed in Hong Kong as China Resources Beverage in October 2024.
Hong Kong and Singapore food
Garden, Kee Wah, Maxim’s, Bee Cheng Hiang, Koon Chun, Kowloon Dairy and Wing Wah.
- Garden — The Hong Kong bakery (嘉頓) founded in Sham Shui Po in 1926 by T. F. Cheung and his cousin W. O. Wong, maker of Life Bread since 1960 and of wafers and crackers, with plants at Sham Tseng, Dongguan and Yangzhou and a smiling-chef logo.
- Kee Wah — The Hong Kong bakery (奇華) that Wong Yip Wing started as a Yau Ma Tei grocery store in 1938, known for mooncakes, Chinese bridal cakes and egg rolls, rebranded in the mid-1990s with the designer Suen Siu Wah, and still a family business.
- Maxim’s — The Hong Kong group founded in 1956 by the brothers S.T. Wu and James Wu, which took Hongkong Land of the Jardine group as a shareholder in 1972, now half-owned by Dairy Farm, and known for Maxim’s Cakes, mooncakes and Jade Garden.
- Bee Cheng Hiang — The Singapore bakkwa maker begun in 1933 by Teo Swee Ee with a pushcart in Chinatown, which opened its first shop on Rochor Road in 1945, franchised across Asia from 1994 and says it makes its products in Singapore and Xiamen.
- Koon Chun — The Hong Kong soy sauce and hoisin maker that dates itself to 1928 in Kowloon City, moved to Yuen Long in 1967, says it sun-ferments Canadian soybeans for at least six months, and won Kam Fan awards in 2013 for a chili sauce print campaign.
- Kowloon Dairy — The Hong Kong milk and ice-cream maker founded in 1940 by George Ahwee and Rudy Choy with Li Lan Sang, which moved from Choi Wan to Tuen Mun in 1972, says it pasteurises Guangdong milk in Hong Kong, launched Mochi Ice in 1989 and rebranded in 2015.
- Wing Wah — 榮華, the Hong Kong cake shop that began in 1950 as a Yuen Long restaurant founded by 劉培齡 and 趙聿修, known for white lotus seed paste mooncakes, wife cakes and Chinese sausage, with a logo redesigned in 1997 by Kan Tai-keung and Freeman Lau.
Vietnamese food and drink
Kinh Do, Bibica, TH True Milk, Saigon Beer, Bia Hà Nội, Vissan and Cholimex.
- Kinh Đô — The Ho Chi Minh City bakery and confectioner founded in 1993, known for its Mid-Autumn mooncakes, whose snack business, brand included, passed to Mondelez International in 2015–2016 while its founders’ listed company carried on as KIDO Group.
- Bibica — The Biên Hòa confectioner that grew from a sugar factory’s candy workshop, made its first soft candy in 1993, took its name from “Biên Hòa Biscuit Candy” in 1997 and, after years of rivalry with Lotte, became almost wholly owned by PAN Group in 2022.
- TH true MILK — The fresh-milk brand of TH Group, founded by Thái Hương, co-founder of Bac A Bank, with a dairy-farm project at Nghĩa Đàn in Nghệ An begun in 2008–2009 and a first milk launched on 26 December 2010.
- Saigon — The beer of Sabeco, which traces itself to a small Saigon brewery founded in 1875 by the Frenchman Victor Larue, was taken over by the state in 1977, listed in 2016 and passed to ThaiBev’s Vietnam Beverage in December 2017.
- Bia Hà Nội — The Hanoi beer brand of Habeco, whose roots the company traces to the Hommel brewery built by the French in 1890, which was restored as the Hanoi Brewery in 1957, bottled Trúc Bạch beer in 1958, became a joint-stock company in 2008 and counts Carlsberg as a shareholder.
- Vissan — The Ho Chi Minh City meat processor whose slaughterhouse was begun in November 1970 and opened in May 1974, which took back the Vissan name and its “three golden flowers” logo in 1989, launched sterilised sausages in 1997 and became a joint-stock company in 2016.
- Cholimex — The Ho Chi Minh City sauce and frozen-food maker founded in 1983 inside a District 5 import-export company, which began making chilli sauce in 1985, became Cholimex Food JSC in 2006 and counts Japan’s Nichirei Foods as a 19% shareholder.
Thai drinks
Singha, Chang, Leo, M-150, Krating Daeng, Est Cola and Carabao.
- Singha — The lager of Boon Rawd Brewery, founded in Bangkok in 1933 by Phraya Bhirom Bhakdi as Thailand’s first brewery, named after the mythical Singha lion, carrying the royal Garuda under a 1939 warrant and still run by the Bhirombhakdi family.
- Chang — The Thai lager first released in March 1995 by Beer Thai (1991) and now brewed by ThaiBev, named after the Thai word for elephant, marked by two elephants facing each other, and carried abroad on Everton’s shirts from 2004 to 2017.
- Leo — The lager Boon Rawd Brewery launched in June 1998 from a new brewery in Khon Kaen as a second brand beside Singha, named and drawn after a leopard painting in an executive’s office, relabelled in November 2016 and extended to a Leo soda.
- M-150 — The non-carbonated energy drink Osotspa launched in 1985 in a 150 ml glass bottle, its name taken from magnum cartridges and the bottle size and its label from a sheriff’s badge, from a Bangkok company that began as the Teck Heng Yoo shop in 1891.
- Krating Daeng — The Thai drink from Chaleo Yoovidhya’s T.C. Pharmaceutical, launched in 1976 under a mark of two red gaurs charging before a sun, which Dietrich Mateschitz adapted into Red Bull through Red Bull GmbH, co-founded in 1984 and launched in Austria in 1987.
- est — The lower-case Thai cola launched by Sermsuk on 2 November 2012, the day after its 59-year Pepsi bottling partnership ended, with a red, white and blue logo Reuters likened to Pepsi’s; ThaiBev, whose group includes Sermsuk, bought the brand in 2014.
- Carabao — The Thai energy drink launched in 2002 by Carabao Tawandang, founded by Sathien Setthasit, Nutchamai Thanombooncharoen and the singer Yuenyong “Aed Carabao” Opakul, made at Bang Pakong and known abroad through the EFL Cup, renamed the Carabao Cup from 2017–18.
Malaysian food and drink
Ayamas, Adabi, Aik Cheong, Apollo, Cintan, Dutch Lady and Massimo.
- Ayamas — The Malaysian halal chicken brand that began in 1982 as KFC Food Processing at Kuchai Lama, built its Port Klang plant in 1987–88, listed on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange in 1994 and today sits in the QSR Brands group.
- Adabi — The Malaysian curry, spice and paste maker founded in March 1984 by Syed Manshor Syed Mahmood in a small factory at Batu Caves, now based at Rawang in Selangor, which sells itself on “palace dishes of the past” and the slogan “Pure and Authentic.”
- Aik Cheong — The Melaka coffee roaster founded in 1955 in a wooden shop on Temple Street, which grew into a family-run maker of coffee sachets and the IT’S cup range, exporting to more than 50 countries from a site in Cheng.
- Apollo — The Johor Bahru maker of chocolate wafers, stick wafers and layer cakes, which says the brand dates from 1953, listed on Bursa Malaysia in 1996, and came under Scoop Capital, the Baskin-Robbins master franchisee, in 2023–24.
- Cintan — The Malaysian instant noodle brand of Yeo Hiap Seng (Malaysia), which Yeo’s says was the first instant noodle introduced in Malaysia, in 1969, and which grew a non-fried line, a Chef Wan collaboration in 2007 and a Grab Mi cup range in 2014.
- Dutch Lady — The Malaysian dairy that began in 1963 as Pacific Milk Industries making sweetened condensed milk in Petaling Jaya, listed in 1968, renamed its Dutch Baby brand Dutch Lady in 1984, belongs to FrieslandCampina and moved production to Bandar Enstek in 2024.
- Massimo — The sandwich-loaf brand The Italian Baker, a subsidiary of the flour miller FFM Berhad, launched in Malaysia in 2011, baked at Pulau Indah beside the Federal Flour Mills site and packed in the green, white and red of the Italian flag.
Japanese drinks and sweets
Kirin, Suntory, Pocari Sweat, Mitsuya Cider, Fujiya, Kabaya and Yamazaki.
- Kirin — The brewer that grew from the Japan Brewery Company set up for Yokohama in 1885, launched Kirin Beer in 1888 under a qilin label redrawn in 1889, became Kirin Brewery in 1907 and is now Kirin Holdings, a Mitsubishi group company based in Tokyo.
- Suntory — The Osaka drinks group that began as Shinjiro Torii’s wine shop in 1899, sold Akadama Port Wine from 1907, built the Yamazaki distillery from 1923, took the Suntory name in 1963 and, still family-controlled, bought Beam in 2014.
- Pocari Sweat — The Otsuka Pharmaceutical soft drink launched in Japan in 1980, whose wordmark is credited to the typographer Helmut Schmid, whose pack was refined by the art director Iwao Hosoya, and which has kept a blue-and-white scheme since launch.
- Mitsuya Cider — The clear Japanese soda that Asahi Soft Drinks traces to “Hirano Water,” bottled from a spring in Kawanishi, Hyogo, in 1884; named for a three-arrow legend, it became Mitsuya Champagne Cider in 1907, was renamed in 1968 and has belonged to Asahi since 1949.
- Fujiya — The confectioner Rin’emon Fujii opened in Motomachi, Yokohama, in 1910, whose shop-doll mascot Peko-chan arrived in 1950 and Milky candy in 1951, whose F mark was designed by Raymond Loewy in 1961, and which has been a Yamazaki Baking subsidiary since 2008.
- Kabaya — The Okayama confectioner founded in 1946 from a starch-syrup maker’s caramel sideline and named after the hippo, known for its 1952 hippo car and caramel-box children’s library, which now makes gummies, tablets and toy sweets and has been backed by a D Capital fund since 2024.
- Yamazaki Baking — The bakery Tojuro Iijima opened in Ichikawa, Chiba, in 1948 under his sister’s married name, which adopted its sun mark and Suzy-chan in 1966, launched Lunch Pack in 1984, runs a spring white-plate campaign and owns Fujiya and Tohato.
Korean food and drink II
Jinro, Paris Baguette, Chilsung Cider, Pulmuone, Dongwon, Sempio and Chung Jung One.
- Jinro — The soju name that began in 1924 as Jincheon Brewing in South Pyongan, rebuilt in Seoul after the Korean War, passed to Hite Brewery in 2005 after the Jinro group’s collapse, and brought back its toad and a pale-blue bottle in 2019 with Jinro Is Back.
- Paris Baguette — The SPC Group bakery-café chain that opened its first shop at Gwanghwamun, Seoul, in June 1988, grew from a family business begun as Sangmidang in 1945, went abroad via Shanghai in 2004 and Los Angeles in 2005, and opened in Paris itself in 2014.
- Chilsung Cider — The lemon-lime soda launched in Seoul in May 1950 by seven founders, whose name moved from “seven surnames” to “seven stars,” whose green bottle ran from 1984 to 2019, and which Lotte has owned since 1974.
- Pulmuone — The Seoul food company that grew from an organic produce shop opened in Apgujeong in May 1981 by Won Hye-young, son of the organic farmer Won Kyung-sun, which put tofu in a pack in 1984, was led for decades by Nam Seung-woo and now sells Nasoya tofu in America.
- Dongwon — The Seoul group that began in 1969 as Kim Jae-chul’s deep-sea tuna fishing company, launched Korea’s first canned tuna in 1982, spun its food arm off as Dongwon F&B in 2000 and bought the American tuna brand StarKist from Del Monte in 2008.
- Sempio — The Seoul soy sauce and jang maker founded in 1946 by Park Kyu-hoe at a Chungmuro brewery, whose name, filed as a trademark in 1954, the company calls Korea’s oldest in continuous use, and which grew from Icheon into Yondu and global exports.
- Chung Jung One — The food brand Daesang introduced in 1996 to gather its Korean sauces and pastes under one name, home of Sunchang gochujang since 1989, from a company founded in Busan in 1956 by Lim Dae-hong to make Miwon seasoning, sold abroad as O’Food.
Indian drinks
Thums Up, Limca, Frooti, Paper Boat, Rasna, Bisleri and Maaza.
- Thums Up — The cola Ramesh Chauhan’s Parle soft-drinks business launched in 1977 after Coca-Cola left India, which led the Indian cola market, was bought by Coca-Cola in 1993 and became a billion-dollar brand in 2021, Coca-Cola says.
- Limca — The cloudy lemon-and-lime soft drink Ramesh Chauhan’s Parle business launched in 1977, named from the Hindi “limbu ka” (of lemon), which started the Limca Book of Records in 1990 and has belonged to Coca-Cola since 1993.
- Frooti — The mango drink Parle Agro launched in 1985 in a green rectangular Tetra Pak carton, sold with the line “Mango Frooti, Fresh and Juicy,” remade for adults with “Why Grow Up” and Mangoticons in 2009, and endorsed by Shah Rukh Khan from 2013.
- Paper Boat — The traditional Indian drinks brand Hector Beverages launched in 2013, named and packaged with Elephant Design, sold in stand-up pouches under the line “Drinks and Memories,” and advertised with words by Gulzar and music from Malgudi Days.
- Rasna — The Ahmedabad soft-drink concentrate Areez Khambatta launched in 1976 as Jaffe and renamed Rasna in 1980, sold on television with “I love you Rasna,” still run by the Khambatta family and, since May 2025, owner of the Jumpin drinks brand.
- Bisleri — The bottled water named after Milan’s Felice Bisleri, brought to Thane by Dr Rossi and Khushroo Suntook, bought by the Chauhan family of Parle in 1969 and built by Ramesh Chauhan into Bisleri International, with a green label adopted in 2006.
- Maaza — The mango drink that Ramesh Chauhan’s Parle Exports launched in India in 1976, whose Indian trademark passed to Coca-Cola in 1993, while the rights abroad stayed with the Chauhan side and were sold to bottlers in Europe and the US in 2007.
Pakistani and Sri Lankan food and drink
Shan, National Foods, Rooh Afza, Olper’s, Tapal, Elephant House and Munchee.
- Shan — The Karachi recipe-mix brand Sikandar Sultan and his wife began in a one-room operation in 1981, which became National Foods’ main rival, followed the Pakistani diaspora to North America and remains a privately held family company.
- National Foods — The Karachi company Abdul Majeed and the Test cricketer Waqar Hasan set up in 1970 to sell branded, packaged spices, which grew into a listed maker of recipe mixes, ketchup, pickles and salt with plants across Pakistan and a Canadian arm.
- Rooh Afza — The red, rose-scented syrup developed in 1907 by Hamdard, the Old Delhi Unani clinic Hakeem Hafiz Abdul Majeed founded in 1906, which after Partition came to be made by separate Hamdard organisations in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
- Olper’s — The UHT milk brand Engro Foods launched in Pakistan in 2006 as its first consumer product, which grew into a family of milks, cream and lassi and passed with its maker to the Dutch dairy co-operative FrieslandCampina, majority owner since December 2016.
- Tapal — The Karachi tea business Adam Ali Tapal started in 1947 as a shop in Jodia Bazaar selling imported Ceylon tea, which his grandson Aftab Tapal turned into a packaged brand from the mid-1970s, adding Chenak in 1984 and Danedar and Mezban in 1988.
- Elephant House — The Sri Lankan soft-drink and ice-cream brand of Ceylon Cold Stores, which grew from the Colombo Ice Company of 1866, took the New Colombo Ice Company name in 1894 and Ceylon Cold Stores in 1941, and came under John Keells Holdings in 1991.
- Munchee — The Sri Lankan biscuit brand of Ceylon Biscuits Limited, which grew from Williams Confectionery (1939, Dehiwala), was first used on wafers in 1960 and has been made at Pannipitiya since 1968, when CBL opened its factory to bake a school-meal biscuit for CARE.
Japanese food and coffee
Marukome, Hagoromo, Nagatanien, Sapporo Ichiban, UCC, Boss and Georgia.
- Marukome — The Nagano miso maker that traces its start to 1854 and the Aoki family, took its name in 1967, patented new miso packs, launched Ryotei no Aji in 1982 and has used the shaven-headed Marukome-kun in its mark and advertising.
- Hagoromo — The Shizuoka food company founded in 1931 as the Goto cannery, which registered the Sea Chicken name for its canned tuna in 1958, took its name from the Miho no Matsubara feather-robe legend in 1969 and became Hagoromo Foods in 1987.
- Nagatanien — The Tokyo food maker whose founder, from an Edo-period tea family, launched Ochazuke Nori in 1952 in a pack based on the kabuki theatre curtain, founded the company in 1953, and added the “Aji hitosuji” brand statement and red N in 2004.
- Sapporo Ichiban — The instant ramen launched in January 1966 by Sanyo Foods, the Maebashi noodle maker founded in 1953 by Fumio and Takeshi Ida, with miso in 1968, shio in 1971, a blue arrow mark on the soy-sauce pack and a US plant in Garden Grove, California.
- UCC — The Kobe coffee company founded by Tadao Ueshima in 1933, whose brown, white and red UCC Milk Coffee can of 1969 was registered in 2019 as the food industry’s first colour-only trademark in Japan, and which runs coffee estates in Jamaica and Hawaii.
- Boss — Suntory’s canned coffee, launched nationally in August 1992 as the successor to WEST, with a pipe-smoking icon designed by Hiroyuki Ishiura, ads starring Eikichi Yazawa and, since 2006, Tommy Lee Jones as “Alien Jones,” and Craft Boss bottles from 2017.
- Georgia — The canned coffee brand of Coca-Cola in Japan, launched in June 1975 in Fukuoka, Saga and Nagasaki, named after Coca-Cola’s home state, national by 1982, known for Emerald Mountain Blend and given a new yellow rhombus logo in 2023.
Philippine and Chinese drinks
Zest-O, Tanduay, Ginebra San Miguel, Red Horse, Harbin, Snow and Yanjing.
- Zest-O — The Philippine juice drink Alfredo M. Yao launched in 1980 after seeing the Doypack pouch at a European trade fair, named and designed by the UST fine-arts professor Mon Dellosa, and made by the Caloocan-based, privately held Zest-O Corporation.
- Tanduay — The Philippine rum that dates itself to Ynchausti y Compañía in 1854, took its name from Isla de Tanduay in Manila, passed to the Elizalde family and in 1988 to Lucio Tan, and carries a coat-of-arms label of shields, helmet and fleur-de-lis.
- Ginebra San Miguel — The Philippine gin first made by the Ayala distillery in Manila in 1834, bought by Carlos Palanca’s La Tondeña in 1924, owned by San Miguel since 1987, and sold under a St Michael label the company credits to Fernando Amorsolo.
- Red Horse — The extra-strong lager San Miguel developed at its Mandaue brewery in Cebu under the code name Project Delta and test-marketed in Ilocos and Davao in May 1982, with its Muziklaban rock contest and “Ito ang Tama!” pitch.
- Harbin — The beer of China’s northeastern city, whose brewery was founded in 1900 by the Polish-born Jan Wróblewski to serve the railway, passed through Czech, Japanese, Soviet and state hands, and has belonged to Anheuser-Busch, now AB InBev, since 2004.
- Snow — The lager named in 1957 at a Shenyang brewery with Japanese colonial roots, built by China Resources and SABMiller into China’s biggest beer and, by volume, the world’s best-selling beer brand, and owned outright by China Resources Beer since 2016.
- Yanjing — The Beijing beer from a 1980 county brewery in Shunyi, renamed Yanjing in 1984, served at state banquets in the Great Hall of the People from 1995, listed in Shenzhen in 1997 and now led by a state-owned holding company, with lagers from the everyday “Pu Jing” to U8.
Indian snacks and Mexican food
Balaji, Kurkure, Sunfeast, Unibic, Tajín, Marinela and De la Rosa.
- Balaji — The Rajkot potato-wafer brand of the Virani brothers, who arrived in the city in 1974, ran a cinema canteen, began frying their own wafers in the early 1980s, built factories in Rajkot, Valsad and Indore and turned down a takeover offer in 2014.
- Kurkure — The crunchy rice, lentil and corn snack PepsiCo India developed and launched in 1999 as a bridge between namkeen and potato chips, sold through “Kya Karen Control Nahi Hota” and “Tedha Hai Par Mera Hai”, launched in Pakistan in 2008 and in the UK in 2021.
- Sunfeast — The biscuit brand ITC Limited launched in July 2003 with glucose, Marie and cream biscuits, which added Dark Fantasy in 2005, signed Shah Rukh Khan, sponsored a WTA tournament in Kolkata and grew into cookies, crackers and drinks.
- Unibic — The cookie brand that came to India from Australia’s Unibic in 2004–05 with Anzac and Bradman cookies, was built in Bengaluru by former Britannia executive Nikhil Sen, survived a called-off Marico deal and became an independent, Peepul Capital-backed Indian company.
- Tajín — The chili, lime and salt seasoning that Horacio Fernández launched in 1985 in Jalisco, named after the El Tajín ruins of Veracruz, exported to the US from 1993 via Houston, and now made by Empresas Tajín of Zapopan.
- Marinela — The sweet-cake brand of Mexico’s Grupo Bimbo, which grew from a 1954 trial and a failed brand called Keik into Gansito, Pingüinos, Choco Roles and Submarinos, with a goose mascot, scooter vans called ganseras and plants from Mexico City to Monterrey.
- De la Rosa — The Jalisco confectioner of the Michel Velasco family, which dates its start to 1942, made a peanut mazapán in Guadalajara in 1950, swapped a three-strawberry emblem for a rose, moved to Tlajomulco in 1969 and still sells its mazapán across Mexico and abroad.
At a glance: who owns the name and where it is made
Taken from each guide’s fact panel, as of October 2026. Ownership and production change; follow the link for sources and detail.
| Brand | Founded | Owner | Where made |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aashirvaad | Bengal and Chandigarh, India (May 2002) | ITC Limited | See guide |
| ABC | Jakarta, Indonesia (1975 (as CV Central Foods)) | See guide | See guide |
| Acecook | Osaka, Japan (1948 (as a bakery); incorporated 1954) | See guide | See guide |
| Adabi | Batu Caves, Selangor (March 1984) | See guide | See guide |
| Aik Cheong | Temple Street, Melaka (1955) | See guide | See guide |
| Ajinomoto | Tokyo, Japan (1909 (AJI-NO-MOTO)) | See guide | See guide |
| Allen’s | Fitzroy, Melbourne, Australia (1891) | See guide | See guide |
| Amul | Anand, Gujarat, India (14 December 1946) | See guide | See guide |
| Anchor | Waikato, New Zealand (1886) | See guide | See guide |
| Apollo | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Ayam Brand | Singapore (1892 (as A. Clouet & Co)) | See guide | See guide |
| Ayamas | Kuchai Lama, Selangor (1982 (as KFC Food Processing)) | See guide | See guide |
| Balaji | Rajkot, Gujarat, India (Wafers from 1981–82; family in Rajkot from 1974) | See guide | See guide |
| Bango | Benteng, Tangerang, Indonesia (1928) | See guide | See guide |
| Bee Cheng Hiang | Chinatown, Singapore (1933) | See guide | See guide |
| Bega | Bega, New South Wales, Australia (1899 (Bega Co-operative Creamery Company)) | See guide | See guide |
| Bia Hà Nội | Hanoi, Vietnam (1890 (as the Hommel brewery)) | See guide | See guide |
| Bibica | Biên Hòa, Đồng Nai, Vietnam (first soft candy 1993; joint-stock company 1999) | See guide | See guide |
| Bikaji | Bikaner, Rajasthan, India (1986 (as Shivdeep Food Products); Bikaji brand 1993) | See guide | See guide |
| Binggrae | South Korea (1967 (as Daeil Corporation)) | See guide | See guide |
| Bisleri | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Bluebird | Auckland, New Zealand (1953 (the company’s date)) | See guide | See guide |
| BOH | Cameron Highlands, Pahang (1929) | See guide | See guide |
| Boss | Japan (August 1992 (test-sold in Tokyo and Osaka, 1991)) | See guide | See guide |
| Bourbon | Kashiwazaki, Niigata, Japan (1924 (as Kita-Nihon Seika)) | See guide | See guide |
| Bournvita | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Bright Dairy | Shanghai, China (1956 (Shanghai Milk Company); company 1996) | See guide | See guide |
| Britannia | Calcutta (Kolkata), India (1892; incorporated 1918) | See guide | See guide |
| Bull-Dog | Tokyo, Japan (1902 (as Misawaya Shoten); sauce from 1905) | See guide | See guide |
| Bundaberg | Bundaberg, Queensland (1968 (Fleming family purchase of Electra Breweries)) | See guide | See guide |
| Calbee | Hiroshima, Japan (30 April 1949) | See guide | See guide |
| Calpis | Tokyo, Japan (7 July 1919 (company roots 1916–17)) | See guide | See guide |
| Carabao | Thailand (2001 (company); 2002 (Carabao Dang)) | See guide | See guide |
| Century Tuna | Manila, Philippines (1978 (as Century Canning)) | See guide | See guide |
| Chang | Ayutthaya, Thailand (March 1995) | See guide | See guide |
| Chaokoh | Thonburi (Bangkok), Thailand (1946 (coconut trade); 1976 (first factory)) | See guide | See guide |
| Chilsung Cider | Seoul, South Korea (9 May 1950) | See guide | See guide |
| Chin-su | See guide | Masan Consumer | See guide |
| Ching’s Secret | Mumbai, India (1996 (company’s date)) | See guide | See guide |
| Cholimex | Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (1983 (company date: 2 June 1983)) | See guide | See guide |
| Chung Jung One | See guide | Daesang Corporation (founded Busan, 1956, by Lim Dae-hong) | See guide |
| Cintan | See guide | Yeo Hiap Seng (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, Shah Alam | See guide |
| CJ CheilJedang | Busan factory, South Korea (1953 (as Cheil Jedang)) | See guide | See guide |
| Cottee’s | Lismore, New South Wales (1920s (Passiona); Asahi dates the brand to 1927) | See guide | See guide |
| C’estbon | Shekou, Shenzhen, China (1990) | See guide | See guide |
| Daoxiangcun | Qianmen, Beijing (1895 (company account)) | See guide | See guide |
| Datu Puti | Philippines (1975) | See guide | See guide |
| De la Rosa | Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico (1942 (company date); mazapán 1950) | See guide | See guide |
| Dongwon | Seoul, South Korea (1969 (Dongwon Industries)) | See guide | See guide |
| Dutch Lady | Petaling Jaya, Malaysia (1963 (as Pacific Milk Industries)) | FrieslandCampina, Netherlands | See guide |
| Dutch Mill | Thailand (1984 (as Pro Food Co., Ltd.)) | See guide | See guide |
| Elephant House | Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) (1866 (Colombo Ice Company); 1894 (New Colombo Ice Company)) | See guide | See guide |
| est | Bangkok, Thailand (2 November 2012) | See guide | See guide |
| Eta | Newmarket, Auckland, New Zealand (1949 (brand began in Australia)) | See guide | See guide |
| Everest | Bombay (Mumbai), India (1967 (brand registered)) | See guide | See guide |
| F&N | Singapore (1883 (as the Singapore and Straits Aerated Water Company)) | See guide | See guide |
| Frooti | India (1985) | See guide | See guide |
| Fujiya | Motomachi, Yokohama, Japan (1910) | See guide | See guide |
| Garden | Sham Shui Po, Kowloon, Hong Kong (1926) | See guide | See guide |
| Gardenia | Bukit Timah Plaza, Singapore (1978) | See guide | See guide |
| Garudafood | Pati, Central Java, Indonesia (1958 (Tudung tapioca); Garuda peanuts 1990) | See guide | See guide |
| Georgia | Fukuoka, Saga and Nagasaki, Japan (June 1975) | See guide | See guide |
| Ginebra San Miguel | See guide | San Miguel Food and Beverage (since 2017 consolidation) | See guide |
| Golden Circle | Northgate, Brisbane, Queensland (1947 (cannery opened)) | See guide | See guide |
| Golden Mountain | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Goldilocks | Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines (15 May 1966) | See guide | See guide |
| Griffin’s | Nelson, New Zealand (1864 (flour and cocoa mill)) | See guide | See guide |
| Haday | Foshan, Guangdong, China (1955 (merger of 25 sauce shops)) | See guide | See guide |
| Hagoromo | Shizuoka prefecture, Japan (1931 (as the Goto cannery)) | See guide | See guide |
| Haitai | Namyeong-dong, Seoul, South Korea (3 October 1945) | See guide | See guide |
| Haldiram’s | Bikaner, Rajasthan, India (1937) | See guide | See guide |
| Harbin | Harbin, Heilongjiang, China (1900) | See guide | See guide |
| Healthy Boy | Bangkok, Thailand (1947 (company history)) | See guide | See guide |
| Horlicks | Chicago, Illinois, USA (1873 (as J & W Horlicks)) | See guide | See guide |
| House Foods | Osaka, Japan (1913 (as Urakami Shoten)) | See guide | See guide |
| Hup Seng | Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia (1957–58 (partnership); biscuits made from 1964) | See guide | See guide |
| Huy Fong Foods | Chinatown, Los Angeles, United States (1980) | See guide | See guide |
| I-Mei | Dadaocheng, Taipei, Taiwan (30 March 1934 (as the I-Mei Store)) | See guide | See guide |
| Indocafe | Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia (1985 (company); 1989 (Coffeemix)) | See guide | See guide |
| Jack ’n Jill | Philippines (1966 (Universal Robina Corporation)) | See guide | See guide |
| JDB | Hong Kong; first plant Dongguan, Guangdong (Factory 1992; JDB name on cans from May 2012) | See guide | See guide |
| Jinro | Yonggang County, South Pyongan (1924 (as Jincheon Brewing)) | See guide | See guide |
| Julie’s | Alor Gajah, Melaka, Malaysia (Company 1981; Julie’s brand 1985 (1982 in older company copy)) | See guide | See guide |
| Kabaya | Okayama, Japan (1946) | See guide | See guide |
| Kagome | Aichi Prefecture, Japan (1899 (tomatoes); 1949 (company)) | See guide | See guide |
| Kameda Seika | Kameda, Niigata, Japan (1946 (company 1957)) | See guide | See guide |
| Kapal Api | Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia (1927) | See guide | See guide |
| Kee Wah | Yau Ma Tei, Kowloon, Hong Kong (1938) | See guide | See guide |
| Kewpie | Tokyo, Japan (November 1919 (as Shokuhin Kogyo); mayonnaise March 1925) | See guide | See guide |
| Khong Guan | Singapore (1947) | See guide | See guide |
| Kinh Đô | Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (1993) | See guide | See guide |
| Kirin | Yokohama, Japan (1885 (Japan Brewery Company); 1907 (Kirin Brewery Company)) | See guide | See guide |
| Kissan | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Koon Chun | Kowloon City, Hong Kong (1928) | See guide | See guide |
| Kopiko | Indonesia (1982) | See guide | See guide |
| Kowloon Dairy | Kowloon, Hong Kong (1940) | See guide | See guide |
| Kracie | Tokyo, Japan (2006 as Kanebo Trinity Holdings; renamed Kracie 2007) | See guide | See guide |
| Krating Daeng | Thailand (1976) | See guide | See guide |
| Kuai Kuai | Taipei, Taiwan (1968 (company root 1956)) | See guide | See guide |
| Kurkure | India, by PepsiCo India (1999 (Pakistan 2008; UK 2021)) | See guide | See guide |
| Lactasoy | Bangkok, Thailand (1981 (soy milk); company roots 1950) | See guide | See guide |
| Lao Gan Ma | Guiyang, Guizhou, China (1996 factory (company); registered 1997) | See guide | See guide |
| Leggo’s | Bendigo, Victoria, Australia (1881 (as Rickards’ business); Leggo’s from 1894) | See guide | See guide |
| Leo | Thailand (June 1998) | See guide | See guide |
| Ligo | Philippines (1945 or 1954 (as distributor); local cannery c. 1980) | See guide | See guide |
| Lijjat | Girgaum, Mumbai, India (15 March 1959) | See guide | See guide |
| Limca | Mumbai, India (1977) | See guide | See guide |
| Lobo | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Lotte | Tokyo, Japan (June 1948) | See guide | See guide |
| Lucky Me! | Philippines (1989) | Monde Nissin Corporation, Santa Rosa, Laguna | See guide |
| M-150 | Thailand (1985) | See guide | See guide |
| Maaza | India (1976 (Parle Exports)) | See guide | See guide |
| Mae Ploy | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Magnolia | William J. Schober’s Magnolia business | See guide | See guide |
| Mainland | Otago, New Zealand (1954 (brand launched 1955)) | See guide | See guide |
| Mamee | Malacca (Melaka), Malaysia (1971 (as Pacific Food Products)) | See guide | See guide |
| Mang Tomas | A lechon stall in Manila | See guide | See guide |
| Marigold | Singapore (1963 (Malaysia Dairy Industries Pte Ltd)) | See guide | See guide |
| Marinela | Mexico City, Mexico (1950s (trials from 1954)) | See guide | See guide |
| Marukome | Nagano, Japan (1854) | See guide | See guide |
| Massimo | Selangor, Malaysia (2011) | See guide | See guide |
| Master Kong | Tianjin, China (1991 (first noodles 1992)) | See guide | See guide |
| MasterFoods | Sydney, Australia (1945 (brand); business from 1926) | See guide | See guide |
| Maxim’s | Central, Hong Kong (1956) | See guide | See guide |
| Mayora | Jakarta, Indonesia (1977 (family biscuit baking from 1948)) | See guide | See guide |
| MDH | Sialkot, British India (now Pakistan) (1919; restarted in Delhi 1948) | See guide | See guide |
| Mega | Bicol region, Philippines (1975 (as Wilmar Fishing, the company says)) | See guide | See guide |
| Mengniu | Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China (18 August 1999) | See guide | See guide |
| Mitsuya Cider | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Mizkan | Handa, Aichi, Japan (1804) | See guide | See guide |
| Mother Dairy | See guide | National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) | See guide |
| MTR | Bengaluru (Bangalore), India (1924 (restaurant); packaged foods from the 1970s) | See guide | See guide |
| Munchee | Dehiwala, then Pannipitiya, Sri Lanka (1939 (Williams Confectionery); Munchee name 1960; CBL 1968) | See guide | See guide |
| Munchy’s | Batu Pahat, Johor, Malaysia (1991) | See guide | See guide |
| Nabati | Bandung, West Java, Indonesia (Group dates its roots to 1985; company says founded 2002) | See guide | See guide |
| Nagatanien | Tokyo, Japan (1953 (Ochazuke Nori launched 1952)) | See guide | See guide |
| Nandini | See guide | Karnataka Co-operative Milk Producers’ Federation (KMF) | See guide |
| National Foods | Karachi, Pakistan (1970) | See guide | See guide |
| Nongfu Spring | Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China (26 September 1996) | See guide | See guide |
| Oishi | Manila, Philippines (1946 (as Liwayway)) | See guide | See guide |
| OLDTOWN White Coffee | Ipoh, Malaysia (1999 (as White Café)) | See guide | See guide |
| Olper’s | Pakistan (2006) | See guide | See guide |
| Otafuku | Hiroshima, Japan (1922 (as Sasaki Shoten)) | See guide | See guide |
| Ottogi | Seoul, South Korea (May 1969 (as Punglim Sangsa)) | See guide | See guide |
| Ovaltine | Bern, Switzerland (1904 (as Ovomaltine)) | See guide | See guide |
| Paldo | South Korea (1983 (brand); 2012 (company)) | See guide | See guide |
| Paper Boat | Bengaluru, India (2013 (Hector Beverages founded 2009)) | See guide | See guide |
| Paris Baguette | Gwanghwamun, Seoul (1988 (first shop; Paris Croissant Co. 1986)) | See guide | See guide |
| Parle | Vile Parle, Mumbai, India (1929 (first factory; the company says the house dates from 1928)) | See guide | See guide |
| Pauls | South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (1933 (Pauls Polar Perfections Pty Ltd)) | See guide | See guide |
| Pearl River Bridge | Guangdong, China (1958 (company); 1957 (Chinese Wikipedia)) | See guide | See guide |
| Peters | Sydney, Australia (1907 (as Peters’ American Delicacy Co.)) | See guide | See guide |
| Pocari Sweat | Japan (April 1980) | See guide | See guide |
| Pocky | Osaka, Japan (1966) | See guide | See guide |
| Prima Taste | Singapore (1998 (Prima Limited, 1961)) | See guide | See guide |
| Pulmuone | Apgujeong-dong, Seoul, South Korea (1981 (shop); 1984 (Pulmuone Foods)) | See guide | See guide |
| Rasna | Ahmedabad, India (1976 (as Jaffe)) | See guide | See guide |
| Rebisco | San Juan, Metro Manila (1963 (as England Biscuit Factory)) | See guide | See guide |
| Red Horse | Ilocos and Davao test markets (May 1982) | See guide | See guide |
| Rooh Afza | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Rosella | Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria (1895) | See guide | See guide |
| S&B | Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan (1923 (as Higashiya)) | See guide | See guide |
| Saigon | Saigon, Vietnam (1875 (as a small brewery)) | See guide | See guide |
| Sanitarium | Melbourne, Australia (1898) | Seventh-day Adventist Church, South Pacific Division | See guide |
| Sapporo Ichiban | Maebashi, Gunma, Japan (1966 (Sanyo Foods founded 1953 as Fuji Seimen)) | See guide | See guide |
| Sempio | Chungmuro, Seoul, South Korea (1946) | See guide | See guide |
| Shan | Karachi, Pakistan (1981) | See guide | See guide |
| Silver Swan | Malabon / Manila, Philippines (Early 1940s (company)) | See guide | See guide |
| SilverQueen | Garut, West Java, Indonesia (1950s (Indonesian Wikipedia: 1950)) | See guide | See guide |
| Singha | Bangkok, Thailand (1933 (Boon Rawd Brewery)) | See guide | See guide |
| Smith’s | Surry Hills, Sydney (1931 (re-formed 1932)) | See guide | See guide |
| Snow | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Squid Brand | Bangkok, Thailand (1944 (company says)) | See guide | See guide |
| Streets | Corrimal, New South Wales, Australia (1920 (Streets Ice Cream Ltd registered 1934)) | See guide | See guide |
| Sunfeast | India (July 2003) | ITC Limited, Kolkata | See guide |
| Suntory | Osaka, Japan (1899 (as Torii Shoten)) | See guide | See guide |
| Tajín | Jalisco, Mexico (1985) | See guide | See guide |
| Tanduay | Manila, Philippines (1854 (company date)) | See guide | See guide |
| Tao Kae Noi | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| Tapal | Jodia Bazaar, Karachi, Pakistan (1947) | See guide | See guide |
| Teh Botol Sosro | Slawi, Central Java, Indonesia (1940 (dry tea); 1970 (bottled)) | See guide | See guide |
| TH true MILK | Nghĩa Đàn, Nghệ An, Vietnam (2009 (group); milk launched 2010) | See guide | See guide |
| Three Squirrels | Wuhu, Anhui, China (16 February 2012) | See guide | See guide |
| Thums Up | Mumbai, India (1977) | See guide | See guide |
| Tohato | Suginami, Tokyo (1952 (as Tokyo Seika)) | See guide | See guide |
| Totole | Shanghai, China (1988 (factory opened in Jiading, January 1989)) | See guide | See guide |
| Trung Nguyên | Buôn Ma Thuột, Đắk Lắk, Vietnam (16 June 1996) | See guide | See guide |
| Tsingtao | Qingdao (Tsingtao), China (1903 (as Germania-Brauerei Tsingtao)) | See guide | See guide |
| Twisties | See guide | See guide | See guide |
| UCC | Kobe, Japan (1933 (as Ueshima Tadao Shoten)) | See guide | See guide |
| Uncle Tobys | Sydney, New South Wales (1893 (trademark); company roots in Parsons Bros, 1861) | See guide | See guide |
| Uni-President | Tainan, Taiwan (1967) | See guide | See guide |
| Unibic | Bengaluru, India (2004 (retail from 2005)) | See guide | See guide |
| Vinamilk | Southern Vietnam (1976 (as the Southern Milk and Coffee Company)) | See guide | See guide |
| Vissan | Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam (1970 (construction began); opened 1974) | See guide | See guide |
| Vitasoy | Causeway Bay, Hong Kong (1940) | See guide | See guide |
| Wahaha | Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China (1987) | See guide | See guide |
| Want Want | Yilan, Taiwan (1962 (as I Lan Foods)) | See guide | See guide |
| Wattie’s | Hastings, Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand (1934 (as J. Wattie Canneries Ltd)) | See guide | See guide |
| Wei Chuan | Taipei, Taiwan (1953 (as Hotai Chemical)) | See guide | See guide |
| White Rabbit | Shanghai, China (1943 (as ABC Mickey Mouse sweets)) | See guide | See guide |
| Wing Wah | Yuen Long, Hong Kong (1950 (as a restaurant)) | See guide | See guide |
| Wong Lo Kat | Guangzhou, Guangdong, China (c. 1828 (company date)) | See guide | See guide |
| Yakult | Fukuoka, Japan (1935 (strain cultured 1930)) | See guide | See guide |
| Yamasa | Choshi, Shimosa Province (now Chiba), Japan (1645) | See guide | See guide |
| Yamazaki Baking | Ichikawa, Chiba, Japan (1948 (incorporated June 1948)) | See guide | See guide |
| Yanjing | Shunyi County, Beijing, China (1980 (as the Shunyi County Brewery)) | See guide | See guide |
| Yeo’s | Zhangzhou, Fujian, China (1901 (re-established in Singapore, 1938)) | See guide | See guide |
| Yili | Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China (1956 (cooperative); 1993 (joint-stock company)) | See guide | See guide |
| Zest-O | Philippines (1980 (as SEMEXCO Marketing)) | See guide | See guide |
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