“California made my dreams come true.” – Eiji Honda

Our Vision Is to Be Ichiban (#1)

ShoEi Foods USA is a subsidiary of ShoEi Foods Corporation, a Japan-based food ingredient company listed on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. ShoEi (pronounced SHOW-ay) is Japan’s largest importer of dried fruits and nuts. ShoEi operates eight processing plants in Japan, two in China, and the ShoEi Foods USA facility in California.

ShoEi grows both prunes and walnuts on about 1,000 acres in the Sacramento Valley and contracts with some of the best walnut growers in the Sacramento Valley and San Joaquin Valley. ShoEi is the world’s first British Retail Consortium (BRC)-certified walnut processor.

Our History

ShoEi Foods began in 1904 when Tasuke Honda opened the Seikosha Milk Shop and dairy cattle farm in Tokyo, Japan. In 1947 two brothers, Shoichi and Eiji Honda, established ShoEi Foods Corporation in Tokyo.

ShoEi Foods USA was established in Oregon in 1985 as a food ingredient company and relocated in 1990 to California, where it started growing and processing prunes.

In 2008 ShoEi Foods USA entered into a working partnership in the prune industry with Sunsweet Growers. The following year in 2009 ShoEi founded a walnut processing operation in Olivehurst in Yuba County, California, in the heart of the fertile Sacramento Valley.

ShoEi Foods core values

ShoEi Foods USA respects its Japanese heritage through its guiding principle to be Ichiban (#1) in the California walnut industry and Ichiban to our customers, growers, suppliers, and employees.

Ichiro Honda, President & Representative Director,ShoEi Foods Corporation — Ichiro Honda, Chairman & Representative Director,
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Hidemitsu Honda, Vice President & Representative Director,ShoEi Foods Corporation — Hidemitsu Honda, President & Representative Director,
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environmental and social responsibility

ShoEi Foods USA takes great pride in being a good neighbor — locally and globally. We are actively engaged in community activities, lending support to worthy causes and civic programs, and supporting research in food science, agriculture and food safety.Our company is a member of Sedex, the Supplier Ethical Data Exchange, a London-based global nonprofit organization through which businesses publicly demonstrate their commitment to high standards in ethical human resources, business, and environmental practices — their own as well as those of their supply chains.

Sedex operates one of the world’s largest collaborative platforms for buyers and suppliers to store, share, and report on ethical information about their business and identify risk in supply chains. Participation in Sedex documents ShoEi’s pledge to conduct trade only with businesses that disavow discrimination, forced labor and child labor, and that uphold standards in working hours, wages, working conditions, occupational safety and ethical business and environmental practices.

We have dedicated ourselves to maintaining a work environment that is safe for our employees and encourages productivity and enthusiasm for growing and processing walnuts of the highest quality for our customers.

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