The Bigtree Group was found in 2001, and has formed a coordinated development pattern of the first, second and third industries. The first industry is new characteristics agricultural planting, the second industry is nutritional health products processing, and the third industry is catering and health care service. The total assets of the group reach more than 1 billion yuan, with more than 200,000 square meters of standardized plants. The group owns Shandong Bigtree Dreyfus Special Meals Food Co., LTD., Shandong Bigtree Oya Natural Flavoring Co., LTD., Shandong Bigtree Health Technology Co., LTD. Shandong Bigtree Dreyfus Special Meals Food Co., LTD. was established in November 2016, with a registered capital of 467.53 million yuan. In November 2020, through mixed ownership reform, it became the holding enterprise of Heze City Investment Holding Group. It is a national high-tech enterprise, a leading enterprise of agricultural industrialization in Shandong Province, a demonstration enterprise of Rural revitalization in Shandong Province, a leading demonstration enterprise of "Food Safety Shandong" brand, and a "Gazelle" enterprise in Shandong Province. In July 2020, it was listed into the list of the first batch of science and technology enterprises listed in the Cultivation database of Shandong Science and Technology Innovation Board by Shandong Provincial Department of Science and Technology. The company's main business is functional food and nutrition food research and development, production and sales.
The company has been committed to vigorously promoting the construction of scientific and technological innovation system in production, learning, research and service and the construction of laboratory. It has established Bigtree Life Technology Research Institute, and built experimental buildings of "Bigtree Incubation Base" of more than 8,000 square meters in Heze headquarters. Jointly with Superiorsource (Suzhou) Health Technology Co., Ltd. established more than 4300 square meters of "Heze medical care and health industry (Suzhou) offshore research and development center" in Tongli town, Suzhou city. According to the requirements of the enterprise's innovation-driven development strategy, R&D special funds are arranged every year to reach more than 3% of the sales revenue of the year, and the investment in scientific research funds has maintained an annual growth of 40-50%. In 2021, the company invested more than 20 million yuan in key R&D projects of “homology of medicine and food” and industry-university-research cooperation projects in Shandong Province. Up to now, the company has obtained more than 100 authorized patents, including more than 85 invention patents, relying on quality and core technology to triple the speed of development.
Heze Health Food Valley is a key food industry cluster project built in Heze High-tech Zone. The project will take the Bigtree Group 167 acres industrial zone as the core, radiating 4 square kilometers around, and strive to build a integrating health food industry zone with distinctive scientific research, production, sales, innovation and entrepreneurship, and industrial incubation, so as to realize the transformation from traditional food processing industry to technology-led health industry. To build the largest and most distinctive Chinese health food industrial zone at the junction of Shandong, Jiangsu, Henan and Anhui provinces, and take 5 to 15 years to create a health food industry of over 100 billion.
