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Company Outline

Company Name: NIPPON SUPPLEMENT , INC.
Location: Applause Tower 18F, Chayamachi 19-19, Kita-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka
Laboratory: Bioenvironmental Department, Industry-University cooperation laboratory, Kyoto Gakuen University, Nanjo-otani 1-1, Sogabe, Kameoka-shi, Kyoto
Established Date: 1999/12/3
Board member: President Tomohide Yamagami,
Business Activity: Mail order service for FOSHU and dietary supplement,
export functional food ingredient, research and development

Corporation History

November 1997 Peptide Soup was accredited as our first FOSHU. (No. 157)
January 1999 Nippon Supplement Inc. was established.
(Independent from Functional Food Division, Nippon Gohsei Chemicals)
January 2000 Business activity started as Nippon Supplement Inc.
November 2001 Peptide Soup EX (improved on Peptide Soup) was accredited as FOSHU.(No.397)
Peptide Tea was accredited as FOSHU.(No.395)
Peptide Straight was accredited as FOSHU.(No.396)
Peptide Ace 3000 was accredited as the first tablet type FOSHU in Japan.(No.398)
December 2001 Shokuzen-cha was accredited as tablet-type FOSHU for blood sugar level control. (No.402)
October 2003 Touchi Extract Tablet Type was accredited as tablet-type FOSHU (No.547)
May 2004 Head Quarter moved to the present address.
July 2005 Peptide Ace Tablet Type (improved on Peptide Ace 3000) was accredited as FOSHU. (No.674)
March 2006 TG Balance Tablet type was accredited as the first FOSHU in Japan for control neutral fat. (No.770)
July 2006 Lab moved to the present address.

Nippon Supplement., Inc.

♦Management Principle
Contribute to elimination of lifestyle diseases by appealing “Nippon Supplement specialized in FOSHU” to the world and inspiring consumers with products and services.

♦Corporate Vision
*Offer integrated corporate activities from researches to discover functional ingredients through services for customer use.
*Provide authentically beneficial Foods for Specified Health Uses to truly satisfy our customers based on their points of view.
*Perseverance leads to success. Always improve qualities of our products and services so Nippon Supplement will be the favorite of our customers.
*Continue developing products that are competent not only in Japan but also in the world.

Metabolic syndrome and the new health examination system focused on the syndrome in Japan are frequently discussed topics in the society today. Hypertension, hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia (hypertriglyceridemia and hypercholesteremia), obesity due to high body fat, etc... Even if one has light symptoms of each disorder, complication can lead to arteriosclerosis and increase the risk of cardiac and cervical infarctions, so the new system was built in order to encourage people to act as early as possible. Since our foundation, we have been committed to produce products that help reduce lifestyle-related diseases, with close cooperation of research and sales units under the theme of “research, development and sales of Foods for Specified Health Uses (FOSHU). Screened and approved by Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, our FOSHU products so far include “Dried Bonito Peptide Series” potentially effective for blood pressure, “Touchi Extract Series” for blood sugar and “TG Balance” for triglyceride. Now we also steadily advance research in the field of “cholesterol and body fat” by focusing on the newly developed ingredient “Puerh-lun.”

We manufacture and offer exclusively researched and developed products to our customers by mail order service. Even after selling, we do care to know customers’ responses because we develop those products.

For example, we monitored the large number of over 400 subjects among our customers to know their responses on “Touchi Extract Series.” The outcome was quite similar to a number of clinical tests conducted before the launch, demonstrating the fact that our product actually helped health management of our customers.
Nippon Supplement will continue to support customers from their standpoint to lead a fulfilled, healthy life with Foods for Specified Health Uses.

Our Business

♦Food for Specified Health Uses (FOSHU) Business
Foods for Specified Health Uses: the reliable supplements approved by the government.
Tablet type is easy to continue and convenient as one can take anytime, anywhere.
We support a fulfilled, healthy life of each customer with FOSHU.
Health foods came to be known in the society about 20 years ago. As they instantly created booms, troubles on selling methods and pricing simultaneously became social problems in Japan. In this social environment, the national government initiated a program to issue special approval on safe and effective products that passed their screening process among other so-called health foods. Such food products are called “Foods for Specified Health Uses.”
We have been committed to appease people’s concerns with by developing Foods for Specified Health Uses on our own. Our conclusion was that the tablet was the easiest delivery form for customers to continuously use. We want our customers to enjoy a vigorous life by adding FOSHU to their diet. We constantly study health science to ensure benefits that the customers can realize.

♦Global Business
From Japan to the world. The raw ingredients we develop are used worldwide.
Even though each country set different regulations, we clear many international safety standards.
We want to offer our great products not only in Japan but also in the world. We planned globalization in this concept, and our functional ingredients of “Touchi Extract” and “Dried Bonito Peptide” are widely used in North America, Europe, South America, Australia and Asia.
The concept of “functional foods” was originated in Japan, but supplements, fortified cereals and bread, sport drinks, bars, snacks and other processed health foods are widely spread in the U.S., the leading country in the field of supplements, under the notion that those foods are “improved to deliver more health benefits than nutrients derived from conventional foods.” In Europe, on the other hand, the unique health-caring culture has been created urged by both people and media, as the governments demand the food industry to make more health-oriented foods.
Based on increasing health trends in many countries, we are now committed to meet the safety standards including GRAS in the U.S. and Novel Foods in Europe. We submitted data on Touchi Extract and Black Tea Extract to obtain GRAS approval, and they completed the local screening process and confirmed their safety by approving them as “the products generally recognized as being safe to use as food and drink.”
While the new supplements cultures are often imported from the U.S., we developed those ingredients in Japan. We wish to export unique supplement cultures from Japan to the world in reverse.

♦Quality Control
Our customers should be always able to trust and be satisfied tocontinuously use our products.
We believe in manufacturing with such “devotion to products.”
“Devotion to products” is our spirit of manufacturing to imagine the entire process until customers finish the products they purchased, instead of manufacturing simply by following to the predetermined methods. Although it may be conceptual, we believe the most important point is to carefully complete our products one after another with our soul of a responsible manufacturer.
Our quality control division regularly audits our manufacturing plants according to an annual plan: inspecting details on the site, finding out possible problems, and addressing solutions while making improvements. We remain faithful to this basic management cycle called PDCA.
We have a wide range of activities to maintain high quality of our products. A variety of activities support our corporate business, including general prep rallies and small group activities in each section to improve quality by increasing awareness among operating staff.
The voices from customers are always shared with manufacturing staff so we can make further efforts to improve customer satisfaction.

♦Research and Development
Commitment to be the first in the world
We exclusively developed the FOSHU products including “Touchi Extract tablet type,” “Peptide Ace tablet type,” and “TG Balance tablet type,” and no technology was used or granted from another company for those products. It was always our challenge how a company can leverage its technology to attract social attention and be favored by many people in Japan without having any history or brands like multinational companies. We found the answer in development of Foods for Specified Health Uses (FOSHU). FOSHU system is exclusive to Japan simply described as: among enormous number of health foods, safety and efficacy proved products are approved by Ministry of Health,
Labor and Welfare as FOSHU, and as long as the benefits are confirmed, those products are allowed to use commercial claims such as “being suitable for those who have higher blood pressure” and “for those who started to be concerned about blood sugar level.” We started from the ground, studying in a research institute of a university and working hard to collect data necessary for FOSHU approval. We made many first discoveries in the world, which were leveraged in marketing of FOSHU products.

Widely appealed technology
Our first discoveries were applied for and have been registered as patents. We gained 34 domestic and international patents on the use of peptides for blood pressure and 23 domestic and international patents regarding to blood sugar level.
By participating in a variety of academic conferences including Japanese Society of Hypertension and Japan Diabetes Society, we present our research studies to demonstrate our achievements. Our achievements are also posted in academic journals.
Because we wish to appeal the first technology in Japan not only to Japanese but also to international scientists, most of our articles are posted in international journals. Naturally, they do not publish them unless they meet the criteria of “being unique and including new, important findings or conclusions” when examined in the official academic screening. We still continue such activities and receive many inquiries from researchers around the world through internet.

Future actions
We will continue development of Foods for Specified Health Uses and offer beneficial products that will satisfy many customers. Enormous potential may still lie in effective use of foods including unexplored resources. We will continue development by studying product needs among consumers while cooperating with the third party research institutions.

Selling Policies
1. We sell our products only for personal use.
　Don't purchase in order to resell in foreign countries as well as in Japan for profit.
2. We ship only to Japan.
　 Our mail order and a variety of service are only available to people who live in Japan.
3. If you register as a member of our service with false information, we may have to decline your order.
4. Due to quality assurance or stock management of products, we may have to limit the order quantity.
5. If we decide to be inappropriate for our membership, we may have to decline to your order.