Yamazaki Baking Co., Ltd. provides baked goods in Japanese market. The Company engages in the manufacture, and sale of bread, sweet buns, Japanese- and Western-style confectionery, processed bread and prepared rice and side dishes; as well as sale of other products procured from other companies, including jam, desserts and prepared foods in retort pouches. The companies of the Yamazaki Baking Group manufacture various products, including biscuits, crackers and sembei (rice crackers). These products are sold nationwide through supermarkets, convenience stores and other sales channels. The company has also developed its own licensed stores convenience stores and bakeshops, the latter of which sells products made both on-and off-site enabling the company to respond to increasingly diverse consumer needs and changing market conditions. The Company's business development focused in United States, and Southeast Asia. Breads The Company has been making bread for approximately half a century. The Company is designed to provide customers with a range of bread, including loaf bread, sweet buns, donuts, hard rolls and Danish pastries. The Company develops approximately 1,000 new bread products, keeping pace with a market characterized by short product lifespan. Japanese-style confectionery The Company makes Japanese-style confectionery beginning with kirian (sweet bean paste), castella (sponge cake) and yokan (sweet bean jelly). The delicious and delicate taste of the company's Japanese-style confectionery is achieved by skillfully incorporating seasonal ingredients and traditional techniques. It has also applied revolutions in technology to these traditional methods to build mass-production lines for Japanese confectionery. The Company produces such confectionery as dango (skewered rice dumplings), daifuku (filled rice cakes), as well as yaki-gashi (pancake style sweets), mushipan (steamed cakes), castella, and yokan. Western-style confectionery The Company's produces Western-style confectionery products on cutting-edge production lines, including fresh cake products such as Swiss rolls, cream puffs, and pound cakes. Processed Bread and Prepared Rice The Company's business in processed bread and prepared rice for items such as sandwiches, assisted by the company's proprietary Cool Delica. It has developed special sandwich bread by utilizing its strengths as a bread producer. Other Business The Company Baking delivers an abundant variety of other food product lines to its customers' tables. Various retail products are made at the Isezaki plant, including strawberry and blueberry jams, marmalade, and other kinds of preserves and spreads for bread, as well as dessert products, and ready-to-eat curry in retort pouches. In addition, the plant also produces ingredients for other Yamazaki foods including cream fillings, curry fillings, stuffing for Chinese filled buns, and croquettes. History Yamazaki Baking Co., Ltd. was founded in 1948 by Tojuro Iijima.