{"id":134583,"date":"2020-08-08T08:23:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T23:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=134583&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-08-08T08:23:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T23:23:42","slug":"marutai-to-build-new-noodle-factory-in-karatsu","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/marutai-to-build-new-noodle-factory-in-karatsu\/","title":{"rendered":"Marutai to Build New Noodle Factory in Karatsu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marutai Co., Ltd., a Fukuoka-based noodle maker, announced plans to build a new factory in Karatsu City, Saga Prefecture. The company will invest \u00a54.3 billion to construct a 7,300 m\u00b2 factory, capable of producing 200,000 portions of noodles per day. The company announced increased net sales (+28.4%, \u00a52.52 billion) for its business term between Apr. ~ Jun. 2020. Marutai analyzes that the increased opportunity to cook and eat at home under the impact of the new coronavirus spread had pushed up the noodle consumption internationally. <\/span><b>Sources:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asahi.com\/articles\/ASN865R21N86TIPE01Y.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asahi<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marutai.co.jp\/company\/ir\/pdf\/20200806_2.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marutai<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-134584\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/MARUTAI.png?resize=1024%2C573&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/MARUTAI.png?resize=1024%2C573&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/MARUTAI.png?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/MARUTAI.png?resize=768%2C430&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/MARUTAI.png?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Disclaimer<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. These are mostly summaries of publicly posted news from the Japanese media. Errors might occur during translation, those are ours. Images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Use<\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this form<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to send feedback. Please share links to this page, it helps us.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More Kyushu news on<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FukuokaNow\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fukuokanews\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instagram<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fukuokanow\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marutai Co., Ltd., a Fukuoka-based noodle maker, announced plans to build a new factory in Karatsu City, Saga Prefecture. The company will invest \u00a54.3 billion to construct a 7,300 m\u00b2 factory, capable of producing 200,000 portions of noodles per day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":134584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-134583","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-nagasaki-prefecture","news-category-business","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/134583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}