Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co Ltd

Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co Ltd [Photo/Yili Group]

Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co Ltd (内蒙古伊利实业集团股份有限公司) is China's largest dairy producer with the most complete production lines, and the only dairy product sponsor of Beijing Olympic Games and Expo 2010 Shanghai. It has also become the official supplier of dairy products for the 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Beijing.

The Yili Group is engaged in processing and manufacturing milk products, including ice cream, milk powder, milk tea powder, sterilized milk, and fresh milk under the Yili brand.It has at least 130 branches and subsidiaries across China, with hundreds of products that include popsicles, ice cream, milk tea, and cheese.

With the motto of "Develop the domestic market with global resources," Yili has been devoted to improving technologies and stimulating innovations. It helped found China's first professional Dairy Research Institute and developed Yili Shuhua Milk as China's first milk specifically designed for Asians, who often cannot digest lactose. It also set up the first human milk database with samples from Chinese mothers with various agencies and helped establish the Secretariat of National Cold and Frozen Drink Standardization.

So far, Yili has opened its first major overseas dairy factory in New Zealand, set up the European R&D Center in the Netherlands, the first overseas R&D center of Chinese dairy sector, and carried out comprehensive cooperation with companies, universities and research institutes in the United States in multiple fields.

Yili made it onto a 2017 list of the 500 most valuable brands in the world as published by Brand Finance, a British brands valuation consultancy.

And it is now ranked among the top eight global dairy producers, with a gross income of over 60 billion yuan ($8.73 billion). 

Global sample factory of Yili milk powder [Photo/hhhtnews.com]

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