Hengshun Vinegar Industry

Hengshun Vinegar Industry (恒顺醋业), formally Jiangsu Hengshun Vinegar Industry Co., Ltd., is a Chinese condiment company and one of the country's most recognizable vinegar brands. It is based in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, the city whose aromatic black vinegar (Zhenjiang xiangcu) is one of China's celebrated regional vinegar styles. The Hengshun name traces back to a workshop founded in Zhenjiang in 1840 during the Qing dynasty, and the business has since grown into a modern listed manufacturer whose brand is closely associated with that local vinegar tradition. The company's core offering is Zhenjiang aromatic vinegar, sold under the Hengshun brand in bottled and packaged formats for household cooking and food-service use. Around this flagship it markets a broader condiment range that includes other vinegars, soy sauce and related sauces and seasonings. Hengshun products are distributed across China through supermarkets, grocery channels and food-service customers, and the brand is a familiar name on Chinese kitchen shelves. Hengshun Vinegar Industry is a publicly listed company on the Shanghai Stock Exchange under the ticker 600305, and it sits within the Jiangsu Hengshun Group corporate structure. Its home region, Zhenjiang, is strongly identified with vinegar production, and the company has long presented itself as a standard-bearer of the traditional Zhenjiang craft while operating modern, scaled production. As a brand, Hengshun occupies a heritage position in Chinese condiments: it combines a long historical pedigree with mass-market retail distribution, competing in the vinegar and soy-sauce categories against both regional producers and national condiment groups. Its identity rests on the Zhenjiang origin story, traditional aromatic vinegar, and everyday Chinese home cooking.

The Hengshun name originates in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, where a condiment workshop bearing the Hengshun name was established in 1840, during the late Qing dynasty. Zhenjiang had long been a center of vinegar making, and its aromatic black vinegar — produced by a process involving fermentation of glutinous rice and other grains — became one of China's most celebrated regional vinegar styles. Hengshun grew out of that local craft tradition and became one of the best-known names associated with it. Over the twentieth century the business evolved from a traditional workshop into an industrial producer. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the enterprise was reorganized within the state-owned industrial system, and vinegar making in Zhenjiang was consolidated into larger production units. Hengshun became the flagship condiment enterprise of the Zhenjiang area, and its brand became synonymous with Zhenjiang aromatic vinegar for consumers across China. In the reform era the company was restructured into a modern corporate entity, Jiangsu Hengshun Vinegar Industry Co., Ltd., and it was listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange under the ticker 600305, giving it access to public capital for expanding production capacity and distribution. It operates within the Jiangsu Hengshun Group corporate structure. As the Chinese condiment market modernized, Hengshun invested in scaled, standardized production while marketing its heritage and origin as core brand assets. The company extended beyond vinegar into soy sauce and other sauces and seasonings, competing with regional vinegar makers and national condiment groups. Its products are sold through supermarkets, grocery channels and food-service customers throughout China. Today Hengshun is positioned as a heritage brand in Chinese condiments: a long-established Zhenjiang vinegar house that has become a modern listed manufacturer, with the Hengshun name carrying the story of Zhenjiang aromatic vinegar into mass-market retail.

• 1840

  A condiment workshop bearing the Hengshun name is founded in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu.

• The business is reorganized as a modern corporate entity, Jiangsu Hengshun Vinegar Industry Co., Ltd.

• Hengshun Vinegar Industry is listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange under ticker 600305.

Heritage Chinese condiment brand built on the Zhenjiang aromatic vinegar tradition, sold through mass retail and food service across China.

• Hengshun Zhenjiang aromatic vinegar

  Flagship aromatic black vinegar produced in the Zhenjiang style, sold in bottled formats for home cooking and food service.

• Hengshun soy sauce and sauces

  Soy sauce and related sauces and seasonings extending the brand beyond vinegar.

• 2021.11.03

  Reported2021.11.04

  Hengshun announces price increases for selected products[1]恒顺醋业宣布部分产品涨价epochtimes.com

  Hengshun Vinegar Industry announced a 5%–15% price adjustment for selected products, scheduled to take effect on November 20, 2021. The company cited substantial increases in raw material, auxiliary material, and transportation costs.

• 2019.12.25

  Reported2019.12.25

  Hengshun Vinegar Industry chairman Zhang Yuhong resigns[2]恒顺醋业董事长张玉宏辞职finance.sina.com.cn

  Hengshun Vinegar Industry said it received chairman Zhang Yuhong’s written resignation on 25 December 2019. He also resigned from his director and board committee positions; he will continue performing his duties until a successor takes over.

• 2019.12.25

  Reported2019.12.25

  Hengshun Vinegar proposes adding Hang Zhuhong to its board[2]恒顺醋业董事长张玉宏辞职finance.sina.com.cn

  Hengshun Vinegar's board approved a proposal to add Hang Zhuhong to its seventh board, subject to shareholder approval. The proposed term would run until the end of the seventh board's term.

• 2019.10.09

  Reported2019.10.09

  Hengshun Vinegar Industry announces proposed acquisition of Zhenjiang Hengshun Shopping Mall[3]恒顺醋业公告拟收购镇江恒顺商场finance.sina.com.cn

  Hengshun Vinegar Industry announced that it proposed to spend RMB 44.2449 million to acquire 100% of Zhenjiang Hengshun Shopping Mall from its controlling shareholder, Jiangsu Hengshun Group. The proposed transaction was identified as a related-party transaction.

• 2019.09.25

  Reported2019.09.25

  Hengshun Vinegar announces acquisition of Zhenjiang Hengshun Mall[4]恒顺醋业宣布收购镇江恒顺商场股权finance.sina.com.cn

  Hengshun Vinegar announced a proposed purchase for RMB 44.2449 million of the 100% equity in Zhenjiang Hengshun Mall, a wholly owned subsidiary of its controlling shareholder, Jiangsu Hengshun Group. The article described the transaction as a related-party transaction.

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