Company Profile
AJINOMOTO EUROPE S.A.S. is the European and African Headquarters of the Ajinomoto Group, covering Europe, Russia and the African continent. The Ajinomoto Group, in this wide area, counts twelve companies and employs more than 2000 people.
The Ajinomoto Group was founded in Japan in 1909 when the company's first product, AJI-NO-MOTO®, was launched. AJI-NO-MOTO®, which literally means "the essence of taste" in Japanese, is a long-lived seasoning product now sold in more than 111 countries and which is very popular in Asia and on the American Continents.
Thanks to our advanced skills in amino acid technologies, we have diversified our activities from foods to fine chemicals and health care products. Today, the Ajinomoto Group is considered as a world leader in the amino-acid industry with 121 subsidiaries in 21 countries and 27,000 collaborators.
