Bull-Dog Sauce 110 Year Anniversary

Bull-Dog Sauce started business in 1902 under the name Misawaya and started making sauce in 1905. Bull-Dog was in the international news in 2007 when it successfully fought off a takeover bid from Steel Partners (US).

http://www.bulldog.co.jp/news/archives_html/news192.html

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nb20070710a1.html

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Meiji Cheese Pepper Karl‏

Meiji has introduced a new Cheese and Pepper flavor Karl which contains 35% less oil.

http://www.meiji.co.jp/sweets/snack/karl/

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Coke Aquarius Zero‏

Coca Cola has introduced Aquarius Zero with support to avoid overheating. Aquarius is Coca Cola's line of sports drinks in Japan. With the temperatures expected to soar during August, Coca Cola is marketing this as the best way to rehydrate and avoid overheating. As such this drink has zero calories (thus the zero in the name), contains carnitine (which is said to help the body fight the effects of heat), and contains an electrolyte balance (40 mg of sodium/100 ml).

http://c.cocacola.co.jp/aquarius/zero/product/

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Ito Ham Fresh Morning‏

Ito Ham has part of its site devoted to promoting balanced meals called Fresh Morning (朝のフレッシュ）, which uses the Japanese figure skater Mao Asada (浅田真央) to explain how food balance is important. This balance obviously includes meat, but they emphasize vegetables very strongly. There is a play on words going on here - even though she uses a different Chinese character in her name, the sound of the first character in Asada's family name sounds like the word "morning".

http://www.itoham.co.jp/product/brand/asafresh/index.html

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