July 27, 2026
Teway Food Reaches 100% Compliance Accuracy and Cuts Formula Updates to Minutes with Centric PLM
Centric PLM stood out thanks to its deep understanding of the consumer products industry, proven implementation experience and exceptional flexibility.
— R&D and Innovation Center team at Teway Food
Chinese compound condiment maker achieves faster formula reviews through phased R&D digitalization
CAMPBELL, Calif., July 28, 2026—Centric Software® is pleased to announce that Sichuan Teway Food Group Co., Ltd. (Teway Food) has deployed Centric PLM™ to digitalize R&D, automate compliance and strengthen cost management across its compound condiment business. Centric Software delivers innovative, integrated, end-to-end AI-powered enterprise solutions to take products from concept to commercialization. Food & beverage, cosmetics & personal care, grocery and multi-category retail teams can plan, design, develop, formulate, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, assort, sell and replenish products to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.
Founded in 2008, Teway Food is a nationally recognized specialist in compound condiments. Its seven brands, among them Haorenjia, Dahongpao and Tianche, reach consumers across China and more than 50 export markets, spanning recipe-based seasonings, hotpot bases and sauces.
Teway Food invests heavily in R&D and treats its innovation teams as one of its most valuable assets. The brand portfolio and export footprint grew faster than the company's ways of working could keep up. R&D data sat scattered across teams, formula updates ran slow and error-prone, compliance reviews dragged through manual cycles and both costs and project progress were hard to see. The answer had to fit an industry where recipes and regulations shift constantly and material costs never sit still.
“Because we place such importance on R&D, we conducted extensive research and multiple rounds of evaluation when selecting a PLM provider,” explains the R&D and Innovation Center team at Teway Food. “Centric PLM stood out thanks to its deep understanding of the consumer products industry, proven implementation experience and exceptional flexibility.”
The company went live with the PLM project in two phases, the first in April 2023 for foundational data and project management, the second in May 2025 for risk control, automation and cost management. The results land in the numbers. Work that once took four person-days, adjusting 44 formulas, now finishes in minutes, while automated checks for food safety, export, halal and additive rules run the moment a team enters a formula. Formula review and product specification creation are each 80% faster. Compliance calculation accuracy reaches 100%, with the system verifying food safety, export, halal and additive rules automatically the moment a team enters a formula.
The digital R&D foundation now in place, Teway Food sets its sights on data-driven product development as its next frontier.
“Food & beverage innovators are under pressure to move faster without ever bending on safety or compliance,” says Fabrice Canonge, CEO of Centric Software. “Teway Food proves the two advance together. We are proud to back their pace of innovation and the standard they are setting for digital R&D in consumer goods.”
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With “Creating a Better Life with Delicacy” as its mission, Sichuan Teway Food Group Co., Ltd. (“Teway Food”) has been focusing on the R&D, production, and sales of compound seasoning since its establishment in 2008. Today, the company has developed into a large-scale compound seasoning production enterprise focusing on seasonings for hot pot and Chinese dishes. In 2019, Teway Food was successfully listed on the A-share market and was recognized as the 89th most valuable private brands by Hurun.
Teway Food offers five major brands—Hao Ren jia, Da Hong pao, Tian Che, Teway Cantonese High-end Customisation and Shi Cui Fang. Teway Food’s products are sold across all 31 provinces in China and exported to countries including the US, UK, Canada, and Australia.
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