UMAMI Development Service
About UMAMI Development Service
Japan offers outstanding opportunities for global food and beverage suppliers to enter its lucrative market. Japan is a gateway for worldwide food and beverage suppliers to expand their business to the APAC market. However, the Japanese food and beverage market is complex to break into.
We at Driven Global Consulting offer an exclusive food and beverage consulting service called UMAMI Development to support our global clients by providing expertise in Japanese market entry strategy, develop their business and expand it to the rest of the APAC market.
UMAMI Mission
UMAMI means Essence of Deliciousness in Japanese, and it is the texture of the core fifth taste. Our mission is to become the essence of success for our clients and bridge global food and beverage suppliers to the Japanese and Asia markets.
UMAMI Goal
Market Analysis
- Analyze your industry environment
- Identify your audience insights
- Assess suitable sales channel for your product
- Plan your market entry strategy
Product and Market Development
- Product adaptation and localization
- Marketing solution
- Labeling and regulation
- Test marketing
Business Representation
- Represent your products and brands to local buyers
- Ensure the business interaction
- Contract and deal negotiation
- Monitor the product launch
Identify the Target Market:
We help our clients to identify their target market, understand their audiences’ needs, and connect with them through their products unique messaging.
Match with local Buyers:
We work with a variety of Japanese food and beverage importers and distributors and represent our clients’ products to best-fit buyers to ensure the business correlation.
Monitor Client’s Progress:
We provide tools for our clients’ companies to monitor their local business development and progress.
Follow up client’s Business:
After dealing with buyers, we navigate our client’s sales channel to ensure it is in the right direction. Also, we study different channels to identify new opportunities in aiming for business development.
Become Agile in the Market:
We consult our clients to fine-tune their business operating systems to be competitive in the Japanese and Asia markets by adding value to their offering products.