Calbee
Sign in to saveis a Japanese snack food maker. It was founded on 30 April 1949, and its headquarters are located in the Marunouchi Trust Tower Main in Marunouchi, Chiyoda, Tokyo. It launched operations at a new plant in the United States for making its mainstay products "Kappa Ebisen" shrimp chips and "Saya-endo" snow pea crisps on 18 September 2007. Another popular snack they sell are potato fries, called "Jagabee". Its snacks are hugely popular in Asia and are well known in the United States.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Calbee, Inc.
- Company.type
- Public (KK)
- Company.native_name
- カルビー株式会社
- Company.native_name_lang
- ja
- Company.romanized_name
- Karubī Kabushiki-gaisha
- Company.logo
- Calbee logo.svg
- Company.image
- File:丸の内トラストタワー本館.JPG
- Company.image_caption
- Calbee headquarters
- Company.location_city
- Marunouchi Trust Tower MainMarunouchi, Chiyoda, Tokyo
- Company.location_country
- Japan
- Company.revenue
- (March 2019)
- Company.key_people
- Makoto Ehara, Chairman and CEO
- Company.num_employees
- 3,860
- Company.industry
- Food
- Company.products
- Snacks and other foods
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is a Japanese snack food maker. It was founded on 30 April 1949, and its headquarters are located in the Marunouchi Trust Tower Main in Marunouchi, Chiyoda, Tokyo. It launched operations at a new plant in the United States for making its mainstay products "Kappa Ebisen" shrimp chips and "Saya-endo" snow pea crisps on 18 September 2007. Another popular snack they sell are potato fries, called "Jagabee". Its snacks are hugely popular in Asia and are well known in the United States.
==History== The company was founded in devastated post-war Hiroshima by Takashi Matsuo in 1949. His first product was the Calbee Caramel, named after the word "calcium" and vitamin B1. Due to the product's popularity, the company name was changed to Calbee in 1955.