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
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 web archive holds a page at this address from 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)
Relationships
1 relationship(s) on file. Each line names the other party, the relationship as its source records it, and the source. A record of a relationship is not a finding about control beyond what it literally says.
Candidates, not confirmed
- cj.co.kr: Website of this business. Source record
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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