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Japanese brand Kikkoman plans to turn the Indian palate to soy sauce

World's largest soy sauce maker enters India through fully-owned subsidiary

Harry Hakuei Ko­sato
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Harry Hakuei Ko­sato, India director, Kikk­oman

Surajeet Das Gupta New Delhi
Fancy having jalebi with a dash of naturally brewed soy sauce as a dessert? If that seems like an unpalatable idea, just check with Harry Hakuei Ko­sato, the India director of Kikk­oman, the world’s largest soy sauce ma­ker. Kosato says many chefs in the country have lap­ped up their experiment of com­bining a salty sauce with an Indian sweet — having alre­ady tried it out with ice-cream.

Kikkoman has big plans for India. The Japanese soya sauce firm, with revenue of about $4.4 billion, has made an agg­ressive entry into the country through a fully owned subsidiary, determined to replicate the

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