Message from CEO

Minoru Kadokura, CEO
Core Company of the Astena Group
IWAKI & Co., Ltd. handles foods, functional foods, and ingredients for cosmetics, which is the original business of the Astena Group over 100 years, and also provides products and services in the fields of drug discovery and medical devices.
The group also has affiliates that handle planning and sales of health foods and cosmetics and mail-order cosmetics.
The group also has affiliates that handle planning and sales of health foods and cosmetics and mail-order cosmetics.
We work on “enhancing” existing businesses and “evolving” new businesses, and will be "always chosen" through solutions to customers' problems.
We aim to solve our all customers' problems by "providing various solutions" and to increase the sustainability of the industry by reducing structural problems in all related industries and creating an eco-system.