Marubeni on mission to win hearts and taste buds across the world

From coffee to beef, trading house doubles down on pandemic-proof foods

20200902N marubeni coffee tasting

Marubeni employs about 30 certified coffee tasters in Japan and abroad.

KANOKO SAKAMOTO, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- About 60 km southeast of Ho Chi Minh City, workers and machines are busy building a massive new instant-coffee factory for Iguacu, a Brazilian unit of trading house Marubeni.

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