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Yili Group

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yili.com
Food And Beverage Services6,600+ employeesFounded 1993🇨🇳 China

As the largest dairy producer and the dairy producer with the fullest product-lines in China, Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co., Ltd has been providing healthy and nutritional dairy products for years. And Yili is the only dairy producer that has served both the Olympic Games and the World Expo in China. In 2015, Yili’s annual revenue reached 60 billion yuan for the first time and the net profit was 4.654 billion yuan, both continued to rise and ranked No.1 in the industry. So far, Yili has invested in New Zealand, cooperated with Italian dairy giant Sterilgarda Alimenti S.p.A., launched the highest standard overseas R&D Center in the Netherlands and developed a broad cooperation with companies and research institutes in USA. On September 2015, thanks to the strong push by both Chinese and American leaders, Sino-American Food Wisdom Valley was born amid active agricultural cooperation between the two countries and the project is mainly executed by Yili Group. Yili’s partners include top Ivy League schools in America, world top 10 universities, and world’s best universities, colleges, and research institutes specialized in agriculture, management and life science. It has set an example for creative forms of Sino-American cooperation, injecting new momentum into further cooperation, and promoting reciprocal growth so as to bring more benefits to the people of both sides. Yili ranked the 8th position in the list of “Global Dairy Top 20”, which was released by RABO BANK NEDERL-ANDS on July 25, 2016. This position is not only the best result achieved by Chinese dairy companies, but also the highest ranking for Asian dairy industry up to now. It is regarded as an important symbol for Chinese dairy industry becoming powerful and being ready to rewrite the global dairy pattern.

Founded
1993
Employees
6,600+
Industry
Food And Beverage Services
Company type
Public Company
Stock
sse: 600887
Headquarters
🇨🇳Hohhot, Inner Mongolia
Specialties
Food And Beverage Services
2 / 14
Active markets
Thailand · Indonesia · New Zealand
0
New markets
Medium
Confidence
mostly early signals
0%
Momentum
vs prior period
61 / 100
Expansion Score
Strong
Stages1Investing13Landing
4 signals · Last 90 days

Global expansion

Live
ThailandIndonesiaNew Zealand
Stages
ExploringInvestingLandingOperating
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Activity pulse

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Last 90 days
Hiring
0
No activity
Marketing & PR
0
No activity
Product & Tech
2Ended
Product launch
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Market entry timeline

The order this company entered each market — oldest to newest

1
🇮🇩Indonesia1st market entered · 2019Advancing
Landing
14 signalsLanding stage
2
🇹🇭Thailand2nd market entered · 2024Advancing
Landing
16 signalsLanding stage
3
🇳🇿New Zealand3rd market entered · 2025Advancing
Landing
13 signalsLanding stage
+11more marketsLocked
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Current stageLandingSetting up on the ground
Confidence52%Medium
Tracking since2019first signal

Recent signals

Partnership🇮🇩 Indonesia3w ago

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As the largest dairy producer and the dairy producer with the fullest product-lines in China, Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co., Ltd has been providing healthy and nutritional dairy products for years. And Yili is the only dairy producer that has served both the Olympic Games and the World Expo in China. In 2015, Yili’s annual revenue reached 60 billion yuan for the first time and the net profit was 4.654 billion yuan, both continued to rise and ranked No.1 in the industry. So far, Yili has invested in New Zealand, cooperated with Italian dairy giant Sterilgarda Alimenti S.p.A., launched the highest standard overseas R&D Center in the Netherlands and developed a broad cooperation with companies and research institutes in USA. On September 2015, thanks to the strong push by both Chinese and American leaders, Sino-American Food Wisdom Valley was born amid active agricultural cooperation between the two countries and the project is mainly executed by Yili Group. Yili’s partners include top Ivy League schools in America, world top 10 universities, and world’s best universities, colleges, and research institutes specialized in agriculture, management and life science. It has set an example for creative forms of Sino-American cooperation, injecting new momentum into further cooperation, and promoting reciprocal growth so as to bring more benefits to the people of both sides. Yili ranked the 8th position in the list of “Global Dairy Top 20”, which was released by RABO BANK NEDERL-ANDS on July 25, 2016. This position is not only the best result achieved by Chinese dairy companies, but also the highest ranking for Asian dairy industry up to now. It is regarded as an important symbol for Chinese dairy industry becoming powerful and being ready to rewrite the global dairy pattern.

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