CJ CheilJedang Corporation
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Korea's largest food company and global exporter of Bibigo dumplings, fermented sauces, and B2B food ingredients.
CJ CheilJedang is South Korea's largest food and food-ingredient manufacturer, operating the Bibigo, Haechandle, and Beksul brands alongside a massive B2B ingredients division supplying amino acids, sweeteners, and feed additives to the global food industry. Founded in 1953, the company now operates over 100 manufacturing sites in 30+ countries and exports Korean food products, from frozen mandu dumplings to gochujang paste, to supermarkets and foodservice operators in 90 markets. Its international sales teams offer trade-pack pricing for wholesale buyers in retail, foodservice, and food manufacturing sectors. CJ CheilJedang's biotechnology division is also a major global supplier of lysine, tryptophan, and other amino acid ingredients, giving wholesale distributors a dual access point in consumer food and industrial ingredient categories.
- Type
- Not established by any record (our catalog import lists it as manufacturer; that is not evidence of the role)
- Role
- Role not established by any record
- Location
- Seoul, South Korea
- Founded
- 1953 (from our catalogue record; not confirmed by the company or by a state register)
- Website
- cj.co.kr
- Categories
- Pantry & Dry Goods, Specialty & Gourmet Food, Frozen & Chilled Food, Beverages
- Markets
- United States, China, Japan, Australia, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia
What is established and what is not
No researcher review has been written for this company yet. No official record is on file. 3 other entries are not official records: our own technical checks and searches, open directory listings, our inferences or the company's own statements. Everything is listed below with its evidence type: each entry confirms only what it literally says; none of them is a review. Nothing here confirms manufacturing, ownership or trading status beyond what each record literally says.
Facts on file, each with its evidence type
- No match found in the debarment registers we checked (record type: debarment-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public debarment datasets and found no matching candidate. Absence from these lists is a search result, not a certificate. Screened by name only: no legal entity is established for this record, so this is not a clearance. checked 2026-08-08. OpenSanctions
- No match found on the sanctions lists we checked (record type: sanctions-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public sanctions datasets and found no matching candidate. A name search is not full compliance screening. Screened by name only: no legal entity is established for this record, so this is not a clearance. checked 2026-08-08. OpenSanctions
- First recorded on the web archive (record type: web-presence-since) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] The company website was already online in 1998. Shows a web archive saw a page at this address on that date. It does not show who ran the site then. checked 2026-08-03. Internet Archive (Wayback)
Claimed certifications, not confirmed by us
- HACCP
- ISO 22000, Food Safety IAF CertSearch
- ISO 9001, Quality Management IAF CertSearch
Import rules for these goods
- EU imports of food of animal origin and many other food categories must be pre-notified in TRACES and enter through border control posts. European Commission (TRACES)
- US imports require the foreign facility to be FDA-registered and the importer to run a Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP). US FDA
Goods family established: Specialty & Gourmet Food (the company's own text), Frozen & Chilled Food (the company's own text), Food Ingredients & Raw Materials (the company's own text). The exact product, operation and trade route needed to determine a product-specific requirement are not established here. Product-specific import rules not established for the catalog categories Pantry & Dry Goods, Beverages: no record or company text names goods of this kind. A catalog category alone is our classification, not proof of what the company makes or sells.
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