Capital and Business Alliance with Spice Code Inc.

SB Foods Co., Ltd. has entered into a capital and business alliance with Spice Code Inc. (Headquarters: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Hirofumi Nakagawa).

Through this alliance, we aim to combine the knowledge we have cultivated over many years in food development with Spice Code's AI agent technology to achieve more advanced food development.

■Background

In the field of food development, research and knowledge accumulated over many years have supported product quality and uniqueness. At the same time, we face challenges such as diversifying consumer needs, shortening development cycles, and passing on knowledge.

To address these challenges and achieve sustainable corporate value improvement, we are promoting the deepening of our core competence in spices and herbs and initiatives for new value creation under the Management Strategy 2033 and the 4th Medium-Term Management Plan.

As part of this, we have focused on the potential of AI technology as a means to utilize and further develop the product development know-how and knowledge we have cultivated over many years in the future.

■Purpose

In this alliance, both companies will work to advance the understanding and expression of taste in food development. Specifically, we will scientifically elucidate the structure of the sense of "deliciousness" based on human emotions and jointly promote basic research to expand the knowledge we have cultivated using AI technology.

By fusing the knowledge accumulated over many years with AI technology, we aim to pass it on to the next generation while further enhancing its value and building a mechanism to deeply understand and utilize the deliciousness of food.

■About Spice Code Inc.

Spice Code Inc. is a company that develops AI agent technology while operating its own food distribution business, thoroughly familiar with on-site operational challenges. Its greatest strength lies in combining technology with deep domain knowledge. It provides highly practical AI products that are grounded in actual operations, such as its in-house developed ERP/business AI agent platform "Rocalme Order."

■"Management Strategy 2033 and 4th Medium-Term Management Plan"

Our company has set forth the Management Strategy 2033 and the 4th Medium-Term Management Plan as a policy to achieve sustainable growth and improvement of corporate value based on the value of spices and herbs.

▼News Release (Published May 13, 2026)

https://www.sbfoods.co.jp/company/newsrelease/2026/seet8f0000007f37-att/260513_mtmp.pdf