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Jeanie Chen
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Functional food demand driven by Asia's aging population leads to healthy long-term growth.

Narrow-moat Meiji’s third-quarter results came in below our estimates and seem to fall short of the firm’s internal targets. Given some positive progress of the probiotic yogurt and new drug sales in the fourth quarter, the company has maintained its full-year guidance. While we are encouraged by the sales recovery of the high-margin probiotic yogurt, a category vital to our thesis of margin expansion, we are concerned that a halt in drug demand prior to the National Health Insurance, or NHI, pr...
Underlying
Meiji Holdings Co. Ltd.

Meiji Holdings is a holding company based in Japan. Co. and its affiliates are mainly engaged in the manufacture and sale of confectionery, dairy products and pharmaceuticals. Co., through its subsidiaries and affiliates, has two business segments: food and medicinal drug. The Food segment provides confectionery, ice cream, sugar, market milk, milk powder, condensed milk, butter, cheese, beverage, health food and drug store-oriented pharmaceutical products. The Medicinal Drug segment provides ethical pharmaceuticals, as well as agricultural chemicals and veterinary drugs.

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Jeanie Chen

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