Nutrition to be top focus for Wahaha

Rising demand from consumers drives move toward health products industry

Hangzhou Wahaha Group, one of China's largest beverage companies, is seeking an industrial upgrade by shifting its focus to its nutrition and health products and investing in high-tech industries, founder and chairman Zong Qinghou said on Wednesday.

"Wahaha will ramp up efforts on health products for the increasing number of Chinese customers with metabolic disorder such as diabetes," Zong said. "And as more Chinese, especially the younger generation, are facing health problems such as insomnia, we are planning more products to help improve the situation."