4) Meiji (Japan) $11.7 billion
One of the Japan’s largest corporations has its origins in Tokyo in 1906 when the Meiji Dairy Corporation and Meiji Sugar Company Ltd began a relationship that would lead to the development of the first condensed milk product sold in Japan.
In 1924 they changed the company name to Meiji Seika Kaisha, Ltd and then back to Meiji Dairy Corporation.
After two years they began to introduce a number of Japanese products such as candy, powdered milk, milk chocolate bars, cocoa powder, baby formula, and many others.
Today Meiji is one of the richest candy makers in the world, with its food division earning a lip smacking $11 billion this year.
