Ajinomoto Co., the Japanese seasonings maker that first sold monosodium glutamate, may spend 300 billion yen ($3.7 billion) on acquisitions in the next three years as the company expands overseas.
“We want to beef up our strong areas like Brazil and Southeast Asian countries as well as expand in new markets such as the Middle East and Africa,” President Masatoshi Ito, 63, said in an interview at the company’s Tokyo headquarters yesterday. In July, a team directly reporting to Ito will be set up to study potential purchases and alliances, he said. ...http://www.bloomberg.com/news
Although traditional East Asian cuisine had often used seaweed extract, which contains high concentrations of glutamic acid, it was not until 1907 that MSG was isolated by Kikunae Ikeda. MSG was subsequently patented by Ajinomoto Corporation of Japan in 1909. In its pure form, it appears as a white crystalline powder that, as a salt, dissociates into sodium cations and glutamate anions while dissolving (glutamate is the anionic form of glutamic acid).
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