MIKI

Overview

MIKI Corporation began in 1966 as a Japanese trading company importing and wholesaling foodstuffs before developing its own line of health supplements, skincare, and household products. Its flagship item, a prune extract supplement launched in 1972, remains central to its product identity; the company later built its own Nishinomiya factory (1981) and an in-house research institute (1983) to support manufacturing and product development, and had the prune extract recognized as Japanese space food by JAXA in 2013.\n\nThe company sells through a network of independent sales persons/distributors, a direct-selling model, with domestic branch offices across Japan in addition to its Osaka head office and Tokyo headquarters. Its own company profile page states its sales agents operate across Japan, Taiwan, and Malaysia, and it maintains an agricultural sourcing link to California, USA, tied to prune cultivation.\n\nMIKI is a privately held company (no public share listing is disclosed on its own corporate materials; it lists capital of ¥60,000,000 and two commercial banking partners). Industry trade press (e.g., Direct Selling News' Global 100) has listed MIKI among ranked direct-selling companies, though the company's own site does not publish revenue or distributor-count figures, so those numbers are omitted here as unverified.