Amoy Food



Amoy Food Limited (Chinese:淘化大同 Pinyin:táo huà dà tóng, abbr. 淘大) is a cooking sauce and condiments manufacturer in Hong Kong. Its products, which now includes foodstuff such as frozen foods and instant foods for heating with microwave oven, are sold around the world. It is owned by Ajinomoto of Japan.

Its former factory ground in Ngau Tau Kok was sold in the 1970s and has since been turned into an apartment complex called the Amoy Gardens. It was one of the hotzones of infection during the 2003 SARS Epidemic in Hong Kong.

Name
Amoy is the old translation, likewise the Min Nan (Taiwanese) pronunciation, of a Chinese city, Xiamen (廈門), in Fujian Province. It is where the company was founded.

History
In 1908, Tao Fa, predecessor of the company, was founded in Xiamen for producing soy sauce and milk. In 1928, Amoy was set up in Hong Kong. In a 1947 advertisement, the company was named as Amoy Canning Corporation, Ltd. (香港淘化大同公司 Pinyin: Xiānggǎng Táohuà Dàtóng Gōngsī) with his factory in Ngau Tau Kok and the head office at Bonham Strand in Sheung Wan.

In 1987, a manufacturing plant was set up in Tai Po Industrial Estate in Tai Po. It was later acquired by the French dairy products company Danone.

Danone sold the company on January 12, 2006 to Ajinomoto of Japan.

External Reference

 * Amoy Food
 * Source: Pinyin translated with CozyChinese.COM

Amoy Food Limited 淘大食品