Nippon Flour Mills Co., Ltd. (NFM) was founded in Tokyo on September 26, 1896. Being the first industrial flour milling company in Japan to introduce western-style machinery, NFM states with pride that the tradition and the achievements of NFM over a period of more than one hundred years represent the history of the flour milling industry in Japan.

NFM and its group companies engage in a wide range of food businesses that include i) flour milling, the core business of NFM, ii) food business consisting of manufacture and sale of food ingredients, processed foods, Nakashoku (meal solutions), frozen foods, etc. iii) manufacture and sale of health foods, cosmetics and pet foods and iv) other businesses including management of sports facilities and bioscience business.
NFM's diversified operations extend even to overseas businesses which include interests in foreign enterprises such as production and marketing companies of premix and pasta in the United States, a premix marketing company and a flour milling company in Thailand and a premix plant in China