In 1904, Kaiun Mishima, the founder of our company, visited Inner Mongolia on his business trip and encountered a drink that was creamy and thick and had a sour taste.It was an important drink for the people in Inner Mongolia to maintain their health as they are living in severe natural environment.Eventually, he found out that it was cultured milk made from milk of cows or horses by fermenting it with lactobacilli.
Kaiun felt his body and mind were refreshed by drinking it constantly, and was convinced that the secret of the tastiness and health lies in the milk and lactobacilli that are the blessing of the nature.After coming back to Japan, he started to develop a drink that is tasty and healthy with cultured milk as the base of his idea.
“I want to produce something that can contribute to people’s life” - Kaiun devoted to the studies solely byfocusing on lactobacilli.CALPIS, the first lactic acid drink in Japan, was developed as its fruit in 1919.

CALPIS produced naturally from our own lactobacilli

CALPIS has been enjoyed down through the generations since it first went on sale. The enduring popularity of CALPIS with people of all ages must be the testament to its attributes of good taste, healthfulness, safety, affordability, freedom to make it suitable for anyone’s taste, and versatility that can be used for general cooking and making confectionaries.
We are offering new items of CALPIS that has exciting new tastes and features suitable for every season and drinking scene by wishing it can always serves the customers well.

CALPIS brand that keep on expanding in line with the ages

Ready-to-drink CALPIS beverage offers convenience to drink it anytime and anywhere along with the trend at all times while maintaining the original attraction of CALPIS, symbolized by a sense of health and reliability.

Pursuing new and genuine taste by our own technologies

We are striving to produce merchandise that has new attraction and extra value by utilizing our many years of studies and fermentation technologies in relation to lactobacilli.
Milk-based beverages such as ‘THE PREMIUM CALPIS’ were developed targeting adult consumers, and have attracted many people as they have rich and mellow tastes produced by our unique lactobacilli.
They have exploited new market of “value-added milk-based beverage”.Also, we are offering quality items with professional tastes such as ”Royal Milk CALPIS’ in the chilled drink sector.

Low alcohol beverage to offer relaxing time

CALPIS also goes especially well with liquor. We are utilizing its tastiness in the field of low alcohol beverage.
We provide low-alcohol drinks that are made from our unique ingredients and technologies, ‘Milk Spirits’(distilled spirit) made of CALPIS is one of such example.

Our keyword when producing an item is “Karada ni Peace”*

We are offering many products in addition to CALPIS branded beverages. The element common to all of our merchandise is “;Karada ni Peace”.You want to start your morning full of energy and smiles; while in the afternoon you want to just relax. Our basic stance towards producing the merchandise is to deliver “Karada ni Peace” to the customers by offering drinks that are good for both body and mind at various scenes of their lives.

* “ Karada ni Peace”: our corporate slogan. Please see “Philosophy”.

Our focus on manufacturing superior products leads us to produce quality dairy products

We use the same advanced technology to process milk and the stringent quality control that is applied to CALPIS to produce high-quality butter and fresh cream by using quality milk fat of fresh milk.
These milk products offer beautiful whiteness and genuine taste of milk, and became the choice of renowned chefs immediately after its launch.
The products are distributed mainly to the restaurant channel and department stores by Calpis Foods Service Co., Ltd., and widely used in leading restaurants, hotels and pastry shops.