Itthecompany (CEO Bong-geun Kim and Yu-kyung Lee) announced on the 21st that it was selected as one of the '2025 Asia Pacific 500 High-Growth Companies' by the Financial Times of the UK.
Itthecompany achieved a sales growth rate of 502% during the evaluation period, ranking 109th overall and 2nd in the F&B sector among the 500 selected companies.
The Financial Times, in collaboration with global research firm Statista, annually selects the top 500 companies with the highest sales growth in 13 Asia-Pacific countries. This evaluation, now in its 7th year, was based on sales growth rates from 2020 to 2023.
Itthecompany aims to solve customers' food-related stress based on the brand philosophy that contains the meaning of 'eating together'. In particular, it suggests a direction to comprehensively solve various factors related to food (▲environmental issues ▲health ▲convenience).
Initially, it led the gift market for mothers by launching the 'Momma Recipe' brand, a food curation service for mothers targeting families with children. Afterwards, it expanded into the healthy food market by adding concepts and stories to food. It the Company provides healthy and convenient food with 'Kkini Kit', a meal kit that can be stored at room temperature, and 'Cup Cook Everyday', an instant soup in block form.
The Kkini Kit product is the world's first meal kit that can be stored at room temperature, and has achieved differentiation by registering domestic and international patents. It has developed a microwave-compatible rice cooker to maximize convenience, and has won domestic and international innovation awards for its innovation by presenting a solution that can drastically reduce the waste rate by solving the biggest problems in the existing meal kit market, such as the refrigerated and frozen distribution storage and expiration date issues.
In addition, the company was recently selected as a participating company in the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs' strategic crop product development support project, and is leading the way in promoting the consumption of domestic wheat as a healthy snack by expanding the range of healthy Mampyeonhan Jjoltdeuk products.
Kim Bong-geun and Lee Yu-kyung, co-CEOs of Itthecompany, said, “At a time when global competitiveness is becoming increasingly important, we believe that being selected as one of the Asia-Pacific’s 500 High-Growth Companies demonstrates that Itthecompany’s global competitiveness has been highly evaluated.” They added, “In the future, as a representative K-content food company that spreads Korean food culture combining content and food to the world, we will advance our products and accelerate our entry into the global market to leap forward as a leading K-food company.”
He continued, “In the future, Itthe Company will not be a simple convenience food manufacturer, but a company that innovates the consumer’s dining experience and grows in harmony with the local community.”
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