Bite a real apple! Taiwan’s Foxconn delves into fresh food e-commerce

The Taiwanese business giant to expand ventures from the farm to your table, developing fruit and vegetable farms, e-commerce, and smart cooking appliances

Taiwan News 
Date: 2018/01/16
By: Sophia Yang, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou is expanding its fresh produce business and is pushing a one-stop food solution service, from farm to table, out of his ever-expanding business empire.

Gou’s empire ranges from contract electronics manufacturing, farming and e-commerce to smart home appliances, healthcare and smart logistics.

Best known as a major supplier to Cupertino-based Apple Inc., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., which trades on the Nasdaq as Foxconn, launched an online marketplace for fresh produce on Monday. The new platform Mr. Yong Lin and Ms. Sharp is named after the partnership between Hon Hai’s Yong Lin Farm, and Sharp Home Appliances and is planning to create a synergistic business relationship.

The platform also sources fresh produce outside Yong Lin Farm and works with health-minded brands including Home Fragrance Pig, mamafisch, DR. Beef, Brother Chiu’s drug-free aquatic products, and Kawa Life’s drug-free chicken.    [FULL  STORY]