Gov. Tony Evers announced April 24 that the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) Board of Directors approved awarding up to $15.5 million in performance-based tax credits to assist Walworth-based Kikkoman Foods Inc. in expanding its Wisconsin operations. The company, a subsidiary of Noda, Chiba, Japan-based Kikkoman Corp., the world's leading manufacturer of naturally-brewed soy sauce, plans to invest at least $800 million in expanding its headquarters Walworth County production facility at N1365 Six Corners Rd. in the Town of Walworth (pictured), and building a companion production facility at county seat Jefferson in neighboring Jefferson County, moves which it expects will create 83 new high-paying jobs over 12 years.
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The company's iconic 5-ounce bottles of soy sauce travel along the bottling line at Kikkoman Foods' flagship headquarters food production plant in the Town of Walworth.
Although its facilities use state-of-the-art technology, Kikkoman Foods, Inc. still uses a centuries-old traditional brewing process at its Town of Walworth heaquarters manufacturing plant, transforming local water and North American-sourced soybeans, wheat and salt into soy sauce over the period of several months. The natural brewing process creates a complex soy sauce rich in umani and more than 300 identifiable flavors and aromas. Today employing 7,755 worldwide, including more than 200 in Walworth County, Kikkoman Corp. currently operates nine overseas soy sauce production facilities worldwide.
With U.S. demand for its soy sauce at an all-time high, Walworth-based Kikkoman Foods, Inc. was established in March 1972 as a subsidiary of Noda, Chiba, Japan-based Kikkoman Corp. to produce a wide range of soy sauces, as well as soy sauce blends and high-viscosity sauces like teriyake marinades, sauces and glazes for the North American retail, foodservice and food manufacturing channels. Kikkoman Foods opened its flagship headquarters production facility in June 1973 on a 188-acre site at N1365 Six Corners Rd. in the Town of Walworth. Today more than 200 area residents, working alongside team members from Japan, are employed at Kikkoman's Walworth plant, which operates seven days a week.
Town of Walworth-based Kikkoman Foods, Inc. produces a wide range of soy sauces, as well as soy sauce blends and high-viscosity sauces like teriyake marinades, sauces and glazes, for the North American retail, foodservice and food manufacturing channels. A selection of Kikkoman-branded consumer products is displayed in the company's flagship headquarters plant.
Plastic five gallon pails of Kikkoman-branded soy sauce are readied for shipment at the flagship headquarters Kikkoman Foods, Inc. plant in the Town of Walworth. Among the first Japanese companies to set up a business base in the U.S., Noda, Chiba, Japan-based Kikkoman Corp. established Walworth-based subsidiart Kikkoman Foods, Inc. in March 1972. Opened in June 1973, Kikkoman's Walworth County plant produces a wide range of soy sauces, as well as soy sauce blends and high-viscosity sauces like teriyake marinades, sauces and glazes, for the North American retail, foodservice and food manufacturing channels.
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Marking the celebratory 50th anniversary of Wisconsin soy sauce brewing operations in Walworth by Kikkoman Foods, Inc., Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (left) on June 9, 2023 presented an official proclamation of “Kikkoman Day” in Wisconsin to Yuzaburo Mogi, honorary chair and chief executive officer of Noda, Chiba, Japan-based Kikkoman Corp. and Walworth-based Kikkoman Foods, Inc. Kikkoman’s Walworth plant, which began operations in June 1973, is the highest-producing soy sauce production facility in the world, shipping its products in containers ranging from its iconic red-capped, teardrop-shaped 5 ounce dispenser bottles to 20,000-gallon rail tankers. The Walworth plant employs more than 200, operating seven days a week. The proclamation presentation at the Grand Geneva Resort Conference Center in Lake Geneva came during the 2023 Wisconsin-U.S.-Japan Economic Development Conference, sponsored by Kikkoman Foods, Inc., the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. The theme of the 2023 conference was “Achieving Sustainable Global Economic Growth in an Era of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Volatility.”
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Walworth-based Kikkoman Foods, Inc. recently announced plans to build a 240,000 square-foot food manufacturing facility for the production of soy sauce and soy sauce–related seasonings, including teriyaki sauce, on a 100-acre site at county seat Jefferson in neighboring Jefferson County. Ground-breaking will take place in June 2024, with the first shipments of soy sauce from the new facility planned for Fall 2026. Gov. Tony Evers announced April 23 that the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) Board of Directors approved awarding up to $15.5 million in performance-based tax credits to assist Kikkoman Foods Inc. in expanding its Wisconsin operations. The company plans to invest at least $800 million in expanding its flagship headquarters soy sauce facility in the Town of Walworth and its planned new new production facility in 7,793-resident Jefferson, moves which it expects will create 83 new high-paying jobs over 12 years.
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Quality control sampling at Kikkoman Foods' flagship headquarters plant in the Town of Walworth. Although its facilities use state-of-the-art technology, Kikkoman still uses a centuries-old traditional brewing process, which transforms local water and North American-sources soybeans, wheat and salt into soy sauce over the period of several months. The natural brewing process creates a complex soy sauce rich in umani and more than 300 identifiable flavors and aromas.
Jefferson County is using 171.4 acres of county-owned land in the City of Jefferson to create an industrial park specifically for food and beverage manufacturers (blue shaded area). The park, known as the Food and Beverage (FaB) Innovation Campus, promises to bolster the local economy and further establish Jefferson County as a hub for food and beverage manufacturing. Walworth-based Kikkoman Foods, Inc. is the FaB Innovation Campus's first tennant, set to occupy a 100.5-acre site served by the Union Pacific Railway. The Food and Beverage Innovation Campus is divided into four lots of 110.5, 25.9, 20.7 and 18.7 acres, bordering State Hwy. 26 Jefferson Bypass and accessed off Business State Hwy. 26.
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