CJ Cheil Jedang will go full throttle with the production of ready-to-eat grilled fish packages to cope with the growing popularity of home meal replacements, which are a convenient meal package requiring no comprehensive cooking processes. CJ Cheil Jedang said in a statement on March 11 that it would expand the production of “Bibigo Grilled Fish,” an HMR grilled fish product line, to increase output by more than 200 percent.

CJCJ Food, Americas is announcing its commitment to leading growth in the frozen Asian food category, which represents an estimated $3.2 billion opportunity for food retailers in the United States. Among its U.S.-based affiliates, recent activities include launching a new merchandising model in the frozen aisle, establishing one portfolio of leading Asian food brands for retailers, introducing new products, and investing in long-term manufacturing capacity and capabilities.

CJ CheilJedang, a 68-year old food company, has created a dumpling renaissance with its flagship Bibigo Mandu. While dumplings are widely known to be from China, they are actually shared staples in many countries, including Korea, and recipes differ by region. With Korean dumplings, called mandu and generally with thin dough wrapping, CJ CheilJedang has taken the “localization” strategy to present tasty, yet authentic Korean mandu to consumers in other countries.

CJ Foods USA Inc. (CJ Foods), the US-based affiliate of CJ CheilJedang (CJCJ), has unveiled plans to invest several hundred million dollars to build a 700,000-square-foot Asian food production facility in Sioux Falls, SD. The new facility will include automated food production lines, a warehouse and distribution center, shipping and receiving docks, and office space. By 2025, the new plant will accommodate more than 600 new jobs.

CJ CheilJedang announced on Dec. 22 that its Bibigo Dumpling sales at home and abroad surpassed one trillion won in 2020. The milestone is quite meaningful as it has been achieved by a single food item. CJ CheilJedang designed Bibigo Dumplings for both the domestic and overseas markets from the start. In Korea, the company broke the negative image of frozen foods with the product’s high quality.

South Korea’s CJ Foods has revamped its factories for the coronavirus age, providing a glimpse of what the future of manufacturing might look like.

South Korean genome sequencing firm Eone Diagnomics Genome Center (EDGC) and one of the country’s largest food manufacturers, CJ CheilJedang, will co-produce “genetically proven” health foods. EDGC’s co-CEO Lee Min-seob and Hwang Yoon-il from CJ’s research and development planning division signed the deal on Nov. 12 to produce foods that can be personally customized based on EDGC’s genetic big data.

This April marked five decades of Schwan’s Company making pizza at our manufacturing facility in Salina, Kansas. And this August, company leaders visited Salina to deliver an exciting announcement about plans to build a new 400,000-square-foot expansion at the pizza facility. The announcement was made at a special event, where company leaders were joined by government and civic officials at the Tony’s Pizza and Events Center to share details of the expansion and thank the Salina and greater Kansas community.

South Korea’s biggest food maker, CJ CheilJedang, is pushing overseas sales of frozen dumplings as part of its aggressive expansion drive. The company has gone on an acquisition spree in the U.S. and Asia, aiming to secure long-term growth by expanding beyond its domestic market of a little more than 50 million people.

Global employees of CJ Logistics are making educational videos for children. The videos are part of “The New Normal Talent Donation Volunteer Program” called “Book-Reading Language Village,” a volunteer activity in which CJ Logistics employees and senior volunteers from Yak-su Senior Welfare Center read foreign language fairy tales to local children.