About Us
Corporate Profile
Company Name
Taste & Aroma Strategic Research Institute Co., Ltd.
Founded
September 17, 2004
Representative
Michihiro Koyanagi , President & CEO
Members of the Board
COO Consulting Business Manager
Hirofumi Hayasaka
Public Relations/Customer Strategy Officer
Junko Fujimaru
Outside Director/President of Sogo Shoken Co., Ltd.
Naohiro Kobayashi
Outside Director/Managing Director, Sogo Shoken Co., Ltd. Honshu General Manager
Toshiyuki Takeda
Outside Director/Hidekazu Intelligent Sensor Technology Co., Ltd. President and Representative Director
Hidekazu Ikezaki
Audit
Tamaki Kondo
Participating organizations
・General Incorporated Association Retail AI Research Association, Full Member
・General Incorporated Association National Supermarket Association, Supporting Member
・General Incorporated Foundation Marine Open Innovation Organization, General Member
・Agri Open Innovation Organization General Member
・Japanese Society of Taste and Smell Corporate Member
Major shareholder
・Sogo Shoken Co., Ltd.
・Taste & Aroma Strategic Research Institute Trading Partner Shareholding Association
・Taste & Aroma Strategic Research Institute Employee Shareholding Association,
among others
Tokyo Headquarters
NMF Kayabacho Building 8F, 1-17-24 Shinkawa, Chuo-ku,
Tokyo 104-0033, Japan
West Japan Branch
151 Matsubaracho, Hamada City,
Shimane Prefecture 697-0021
History
2004.09
Establishment of Taste & Aroma Strategic Research Institute Co., Ltd.
2004.10
Taste data collection, taste database construction started,
cooperation with Kyushu University USI started
2004.11
Head office relocated to Yokohama City
2005.04
Taste database service started
2010.08
Becomes a consolidated subsidiary of Sogo Shoken Co., Ltd.
2011.11
Head office relocated to Kayabacho (Chuo-ku, Tokyo)
2015.04
West Japan branch opened (Hamada City, Shimane Prefecture)
2018.04
Opened Hokkaido branch (Higashi Ward, Sapporo) , closed in March 2024
2020.07
ITOCHU Corporation forms a business alliance with WingArc 1st Corporation,
Food platform FOODATA service launched
2023.07
Started service of preference diagnosis program “CORESUKI”
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