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Ezaki Glico

 
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Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd.
4-6-5, Utajima, Nishi-Yodogawaku
Osaka 555-8502, Japan
Tel. +81-6-6477-8424
Fax +81-6-6477-8271

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.glico.co.jp
 Employees: 4,448

Japanese enthusiasm for sweets has put Ezaki Glico in a sweet situation. The company manufactures candy, cookies, ice cream treats, sherbet, and puddings for those sweet of tooth. It also produces value-added curries, stews, and convenience foods such as rice-based meals, processed meat, and snack foods. Its other products include baby formula, baby food, health foods and health supplements, and food ingredients for other manufacturers. Ezaki Glico's confections, for which it is best known, include its flagship Pocky and Pretz chocolate-covered pretzel sticks and biscuits and its Giant Cone ice cream snack.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending March, 2008:
Sales: $1,265.1M

Officers:
President and CEO: Katsuhisa Ezaki
Managing Director and CFO: Tadao Anaho
Managing Director: Munekazu Nakagawa

Competitors:
Meiji Holdings
Morinaga & Co
Nestlé

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Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd.
江崎グリコ株式会社
Type public kabushiki kaisha (TYO: 2206, OSE: 2206)
Founded Nishi-ku, Osaka, Japan (February 22, 1929 (1929-02-22))
Founder(s) Toshikazu Ezaki
Headquarters 6-5, Utajima Yonchome, Nishiyodogawa-ku, Osaka,
Industry food manufacturing
Products Glico
Pretz
Pocky
Collon
Bisco
Kiss mint
POs-Ca
Giant Corn
Papico
and others
Famous advertisement by Glico in Osaka (middle-left)

Ezaki Glico Co., Ltd. (江崎グリコ株式会社 Ezaki Guriko Kabushiki-gaisha?) is a Japanese confectionery company headquartered in Osaka. The company manufactures the traditional Glico caramel candy, as well as Pocky (also known as Mikado in Europe), and many others. The company name, Glico, is derived from a shortening of the word glycogen. The first candy produced by the company was known as Glico-Caramel. The Glico 300 meter running man trademark is also derived from the original caramel candy: the candy is 15.4 kcal, which is enough energy to run exactly 300 meters. (Calculated from the formula that for a person 165 centimeters in height, weighing 55 kilograms, an 160 meter run over the period of one minute will burn 8.21 kcal. Over the period of 1.88 minutes they should be able to run 300 meters and burn 15.4kcal).

The company's large neon sign located above Dotonbori in Osaka has been a famous landmark of the city since its initial construction in 1919. It bears the Glico running man on a blue race track as well as some of Osaka's other famous landmarks in the background. The giant neon sign has been revised on several occasions in order to celebrate events such as the World Cup and to bolster team spirit for Osaka's baseball team, the Hanshin Tigers. As the sign is quite well known, it has long been a popular photo stop for tourists as well as locals.

The company was also the main sponsor of the anime series Tetsujin 28 (the original Japanese version of Gigantor).

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