Kimlan Foods

Kimlan Foods Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 金蘭食品股份有限公司) is a Taiwanese food products company headquartered in Daxi District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan.^[2][3] As of 2008 it is the largest soy sauce manufacturer in Taiwan.^[4] The Chinese-language Reader's Digest ranked Kimlan as a winner of the gold awards in 2008.^[5]

Kimlan Foods Co., Ltd.

Trade name	Kimlan
Native name	金蘭食品股份有限公司
Formerly	Datung Company
Company type	Private
Industry	Food
Founded	8 May 1936; 89 years ago (1936-05-08)
Founder	Han Chung
Headquarters	Daxi, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Key people	Zhong Chunming 鍾淳名 (Chairman)[1]
Products	Soy sauce
Website	www.kimlan.com
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	金蘭食品股份有限公司
Simplified Chinese	金兰食品股份有限公司
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Jīn Lán Shí Pǐn Gǔ Fèn Yǒu Xiàn Gōng Sī Southern Min Hokkien POJ Kimlân si̍tphín kó͘hūniúhān kongsi

History

The company was originally founded as "Datung Company" on 8 May 1936 by Mr. Han Chung. In 1970, the company was renamed as Kimlan Soy Sauce. In 1987, it was renamed again to "Kimlan Foods Co., Ltd".^[6]

In 1985, reports indicated that several high-level employees who were members of the founding Han Chung family fell seriously ill after consuming raw giant African land snails, leading to multiple fatalities. The cause of death was later identified as infection by the parasitic nematode Angiostrongylus cantonensis, commonly known as the rat lungworm.^[7][8]