Fuji Sangyo

What Fuji Sangyo does

Fuji Sangyo Co., Ltd. (富士産業株式会社), founded on January 8, 1972 and headquartered in Tokyo's Minato ward, is one of Japan's largest meal outsourcing companies. It provides contracted meal services across four core verticals: hospitals (病院給食), elderly care and welfare facilities (介護・福祉施設), nurseries and schools (保育園・学校給食), and corporate cafeterias (社員食堂). Service scope spans general meals, therapeutic diets for conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, kidney disease, and dysphagia-adjusted foods in soft, minced, pureed, mousse, and liquid textures, with experienced nutritionists coordinating with hospital physicians and nurses on patient dietary plans.

The underlying operating model is facility-based on-site kitchen catering supported by a national footprint of 23 business divisions and 14 sales offices. Fuji Sangyo employs 17,349 people (May 2025), delivers to 1,932 contracted service sites (July 2025), and reported FY2024 revenue of 900.9 billion yen (90.09 billion yen). The company's core technology is HACCP- and ISO9001/ISO14001-certified large-scale cooking operations, complemented by a proprietary disaster-response capability: three mobile kitchen vehicles that can prepare and serve 50-3,000 meals when infrastructure is disrupted, supported by the first Resilience Certification in Japan's catering industry (2019) and BCAO Excellence awards (2020, 2022). Group operations extend through five wholly-owned subsidiaries covering food distribution, food services, and an agricultural-welfare collaboration farm; additional surface area includes a consumer restaurant brand and a university outreach program.

Revenue is generated almost entirely through managed-services contracts negotiated per facility on the basis of meal volume, service scope, dietary complexity, and facility type. Pricing is not publicly disclosed. Fuji Sangyo markets primarily through B2B direct sales supplemented by content marketing (blog, PR in Zaikai, coki, Hito Sara Magazine), event sponsorships (MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN 2026), and is privately held with no outside equity ownership signals in the source material. The company is led by Representative Director Nakamura Hitoshi, who received the Blue Ribbon Medal in April 2026 for contributions to public welfare.

Name

Fuji Sangyo

Legal name

富士産業株式会社

Website

https://fuji-i.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1972

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Short description

Fuji Sangyo is a 1972-founded Japanese meal service provider catering to hospitals, nursing and welfare facilities, schools, nurseries, and corporate cafeterias. With 17,349 employees serving roughly 1,932 contracted sites across 23 business divisions, it generates approximately 90 billion yen in annual revenue.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Institutional Meal Catering / Contract Food Services

NAICS

Food Service Contractors (72231), Special Food Services (7223)

SIC

Retail-Eating Places (5812), Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Institutional Catering (Schools, Hospitals, Government) (THAFAIAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Specialty & Dietary Catering (Vegan, Kosher, Halal, Allergy-Friendly) (HSACAGAH), Food Services & Catering (On-site/Corporate Dining/Vending) (IMAIAAAE), Food Service & Dining Operations Management (Managed Cafeterias) (EDAEALAG), Menu Planning, Nutrition & Dietary Accommodation Services (Allergens, Special Diets) (EDAEAEAD)

Keywords

• Contract food services
• Institutional meal catering
• Hospital meal services
• Therapeutic diet catering
• Elderly care meal services

Headquarters

HQ city

Tokyo

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices24 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. 医療・介護福祉施設 学校 保育園 社員食堂への食事提供委託事業: Core revenue stream from contracted meal catering services. Fuji Sangyo provides meal services to hospitals, medical facilities, nursing/welfare facilities, schools, nurseries, and corporate cafeterias nationwide. Services include therapeutic diets, general meals, dysphagia-adjusted meals, and event meals. Revenue is generated through long-term service contracts with approximately 1,932 contracted sites.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Fuji Sangyo provides contracted institutional meal catering services to approximately 1,932 sites across Japan, covering hospitals, nursing care and welfare facilities, nurseries and schools, and corporate cafeterias. Its offering includes therapeutic diets coordinated with physicians, dysphagia-adjusted meals, allergy-controlled menus, food education programs, and disaster-response meal services supported by proprietary mobile kitchen vehicles. Revenue is earned primarily through long-term managed service agreements with healthcare, welfare, educational, and corporate clients.

Product overview

Fuji Sangyo provides comprehensive meal outsourcing services (給食委託サービス) for medical, nursing care, welfare, educational, and corporate facilities. The company operates a multi-service platform comprising four core service lines: hospital meal services, elderly care/welfare facility services, nursery/school meal services, and company cafeteria services. Specialized food products include therapeutic diets (治療食), allergy-friendly meals (アレルギー対応食), and texture-modified foods for patients with swallowing difficulties such as soft food (ソフト食), liquid food (流動食), mixer food (ミキサー食), and soft vegetable food (軟菜食). The company also offers disaster response capabilities through mobile kitchen cars (キッチンカー) and business continuity planning (BCP) services. With approximately 1,932 contracted facilities and operations across 23 business divisions nationwide, Fuji Sangyo is one of Japan's largest meal service providers with annual revenue of 90.09 billion yen (2024).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Hospital Meal Outsourcing Service (病院給食委託サービス) Contracted meal catering service for hospitals, providing nutritional management and therapeutic diets coordinated with physicians and nurses to support patient treatment and recovery.
• Elderly Care / Welfare Facility Meal Outsourcing Service (介護・福祉施設給食委託サービス)
• Nursery / School Meal Outsourcing Service (保育園・学校給食委託サービス)
• Corporate Cafeteria Outsourcing Service (社員食堂委託サービス)
• Therapeutic Diet Service (治療食)
• Allergy-Friendly Meal Service (アレルギー対応食)
• Soft Food Service (ソフト食)
• Liquid Food Service (流動食)
• Mixer Food Service (ミキサー食)
• Soft Vegetable Food Service (軟菜食)
• Mobile Kitchen Vehicle Service (キッチンカー)
• Business Continuity Planning (BCP) Meal Service
• Jinkai no Ka Akasaka Restaurant (仁饗の香 赤坂)

Quantifiable outcome

• Annual revenue of 900.9 billion yen (FY2024)
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• 関東学院大学 認定栄養ケア・ステーションminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 7 June 2026Collaboration with Kanto Gakuin University's certified nutrition care station for a campus festival booth focused on health awareness. Activities included bone density measurement, nutritional counseling by registered dietitians, and body composition analysis.
• 株式会社ニッショクcoreOthersGroup company specializing in food distribution and supply, part of the Fuji Sangyo group.
• 真栄総業株式会社coreOthersGroup company, part of the Fuji Sangyo corporate group.
• 株式会社ベストcoreOthersGroup company specializing in food services, part of the Fuji Sangyo group.
• 株式会社信濃屋coreOthersGroup company, part of the Fuji Sangyo corporate group.
• 株式会社ふじ愛菜農園coreOthersGroup company operating Fuji Aoi Na En (ふじ愛菜農園) in Shiga Prefecture - a farm for food education, agricultural-welfare collaboration, and employment of persons with disabilities.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Watami Co., Ltd. Diversified Japanese food service company operating institutional meal services for senior care facilities alongside its izakaya restaurant chain and home meal delivery business, providing comparable contracted meal services to elderly care clients.
• Green House Co., Ltd. Japanese institutional catering company serving hospitals, welfare facilities, schools, and corporate cafeterias. Closely matches Fuji Sangyo's four-vertical model and contracted site-based B2B catering approach.
• Nisshin Healthcare Foods Co., Ltd. Japan's leading medical and welfare meal service contractor with significantly larger market share. Directly competes with Fuji Sangyo in hospital, nursing care, and welfare facility meal outsourcing, serving similar therapeutic diet and dysphagia food markets.

Others

• Plenus Co., Ltd. Japanese food service company operating restaurant chains (Honke Kamado, Marugame Seimen) and meal kits. Adjacent rather than direct competitor, but operates in Japanese food services with institutional exposure and provides industry benchmarking.
• Skylark Holdings Co., Ltd. Japan's largest family restaurant chain operator (Gusto, Jonathan's, etc.). While operating in food service broadly, it serves a different customer (consumer dining) and is not a direct competitor, but provides read-across on Japanese food service industry dynamics.
• JR East Cross Station Co., Ltd.

Broad incumbents

• Sodexo Group: Global facility management and food services company operating in Japan. Offers comparable institutional meal services across healthcare, senior care, education, and corporate segments as part of a broader integrated FM portfolio.
• Aramark Corporation: Global food service and facility services provider with presence in Japan, serving healthcare, education, and corporate clients with institutional meal services. Comparable as a broad incumbent competitor in the contracted institutional catering space.
• Compass Group plc: World's largest contract food service company with operations in Japan, offering institutional catering across healthcare, education, and corporate sectors. Provides comparable contract meal services at global scale to similar institutional client segments.
• Aeon Delight Co., Ltd. Japanese facility management services company offering integrated building management including on-site corporate dining and food service operations. Operates as a broader incumbent in the on-site corporate food services space where Fuji Sangyo also competes.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/fujisangyo-co.-ltd.

Compliance7 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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