鎌田 敏行

No.1 Noodle Restaurant Company ２
社長メッセージ
President’s Message
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Since foundation of the company in 1970 we have been serving
Soba (buckwheat noodle) and Udon (wheat noodle), based on
our mottoes of “Serving the community through food culture”
and “Serving customers through our business”.
This year, a well-known Udon restaurant company,
Ajino-Mingei Food Service Co., Ltd. has joined Sagami Group.
While Sagami is headquartered in Nagoya, Central Japan,
Ajino-Mingei is from Tokyo. The cities are the centers of the 2
strongest regions leading Japan’s economy and the new Sagami
Group has now wide-spread network in the growing areas.
Besides our No.1 position of serving Soba in Japan’s food
service industry, Sagami’s “Misonikomi Udon (traditional
noodle in soup with red miso, fermented soybean paste, featured
in Nagoya region)” enjoys the greatest number of sales in Japan
according to our survey. Ajino-Mingei is serving the biggest
number of “Hand-Stretch-Type Udon” in Japan.
While it gives us great joy we feel even happier to see smiles of customers and hear their warm words like
“Thank you. We enjoyed the meal” or “We’ll come back for sure”. Therefore, everyone in the Sagami
Group has been doing his/her best in cooking and serving by sharing the spirit of “Glad for ‘Thank you’ ”.
Fortunately, we have been receiving growing number of “Thanks” from our customers. It encourages us
and we are committed to serve customers at even higher level.
Since the concept of “healthy life expectancy (HALE)” has been introduced by World Health Organization
(WHO), Japanese have been No.1 in both men and women (only recently men become No.3). HALE is
defined as life expectancy in “full health”, namely deducting nursing care period from actual life
expectancy. Japanese diet is known for its healthiness, featured by less meat and more fish (EPA and
DHA) but we strongly believe that “Nagoya-Meshi” and “rutin” intake contributes in large, too. Inside
Japan, the HALE of Aichi Prefecture is No.1 in men and No.3 in women among 47 prefectures.
Buckwheat is the most known plant containing rutin, flavonoid, that strengthens capillary and its rich and
well-balanced essential amino acid contents has enormously high value. As the world’s largest No.1 Soba
restaurant operator, we are committed to introduce the benefit of buckwheat to the world.
Outside of Japan, we have currently 3 restaurants in Shanghai, China, 1 in Bangkok, Thailand and 1 in
Jakarta, Indonesia. We are planning to open 20 outlets in ASEAN countries in 5 years. Sagami, the only
Japanese food service company at Japan Pavilion in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on the occasion of soccer
World Cup in June 2014, has served soba noodles to VIPs from the world.
We will again serve soba in Japan Pavilion in Milan, Italy during the Milan Expo (May - Oct, 2015).
We are aiming at seeing smiles of soba enjoying customers as many as possible in the world.
鎌田 敏行
Yours faithfully,
Toshiyuki KAMADA
CEO, Sagami Group
Sep 2014