Pulmuone
Pulmuone Co., Ltd. () () is a South Korean company that produces perishable foods such as tofu and soybean sprouts. It was founded in 1981, is based in Seoul, South Korea and sells its products both within Korea as well as internationally. The company provided major funding for the establishment of the Kimchi Field Museum in Seoul in 1986. History. The company was founded by Won Kyung Sun as a small vegetable store. There is a subsidiary in the United States, called Pulmuone Wildwood, Inc., with offices in Fullerton, California, Watsonville, California, San Rafael, California, Grinnell, Iowa, and Tappan, New York . In 2016, the company acquired Vitasoy USA, which included Nasoya Foods, Inc. Nasoya was founded in Leominster, Massachusetts in 1977 and produces Nayonaise. In 2019, Pulmuone is also producing pet food for Amio Organic Senior, Organic Farmer's Dut, Skin & Beauty, Slim Up, Organic Farmer's Puff, Supermilk, Legacy Chicken, and Calcium Chicken Chest. In 2021, Pulmuone declared a "specialized vegetable food company". It plans to minimize the use of meat for the global environment and provide food that uses only vegetable ingredients. Pulmuone has been running the PPM division since 2020, a research division dedicated to plant proteins. Based  on this, it will establish a three-stage mid- to long-term road map by 2023 to introduce  plant-oriented new products sequentially. In addition, Pulmuone's overseas subsidiaries have established roadmaps to release vegetable-oriented products. Pulmuone USA, a U.S. corporation, is the market leader with the largest market share in the U.S. tofu market (75%). Following Pulmuone LOHAS Market Olga Hall Food's Bangi branch, a total of four stores, including Olga Banpo Branch, Violga Ahyeon New Town Branch, Jeju English Village Branch and Jeju Island Branch, have been newly designated as "green specialty stores." Green specialty stores  are green stores designated by the Korean government's Ministry of Environment that minimize the use of plastic containers and plastic bags. In 2021, it won the 15th Korea Packaging Contest, an eco-friendly salad container. Pulmuone signed a business agreement with the preparatory planning team for the 2021 P4G summit in South Korea to promote mutual public relations cooperation. Product. The company sells products under the brand names Pulmuone, Chan-ma-ru, Saeng-ga-deuck, and Soga. In addition to soybean products, it also sells fresh noodles, dumplings, eggs, kimchi, mushrooms, laver, pastes and sauces, desserts, frozen foods , soups, and juices. Tofu-myeon KIT (packaged product with sauce that can be mixed with tofu noodles), cube tofu, and tofu bar, which are home-style snacks that replace flour, are released. The cumulative sales of tofu noodles surpassed 5 million in just one year since its launch. It has become popular with consumers who want to cut down on carbohydrates. Pulmuone is expanding its tofu noodle production line. And it has more than doubled its sales target this year. Pulmuone introduced a vegetable meat product that emphasized the texture of meat for the first time. New alternative meat products  include tofu tender, which replaces chicken, and tofu crumble rice sauce. It quickly jumped to second place in terms of sales by introducing the thinnest dumpling. Pulmuone Foods challenged the ramen market with 'Nature is Delicious' in 2011 and failed. However, Pulmuone, which challenged the ramen market again, released unfried ramen and sold more than 10 million bags in March 2020. It released a new product with Barilla, an Italian pasta brand. It's Protein, a protein drink released, sold more than 1 million bottles in just three months. The product contains 15g of protein based on a bottle  of 260ml product and 400 mg of calcium, or 57% of the daily nutrients. Pulmuone has entered the baby food market by releasing 12 types of baby food that can be stored at room temperature. Vegetable activia is a vegan-certified alternative yogurt made from coconut instead of milk. Pulmuone has introduced a high-protein tofu product that makes it easy to enjoy representative vegetable protein food tofu. Sales. It recorded 2.31 trillion KRW in sales and 45.9 billion KRW in operating profit in 2020. Although its sales decreased by 2.9%, its operating profit grew by 50% at 45.9 billion  KRW. Net profit was 14.3 billion KRW of deficit in 2019 but it shifted to $7.5 billion to surplus in 2020.