AMSTERDAM, June 16, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Since June 8, the management team headed by Pan Gang, Chairman of Yili Group - the global Top 10 diary companies and leading diary enterprise in China - visited to Europe for an investigation and exchange as 'world's benchmarking tour'.

During the tour, Yili visited Unilever, Royal DSM, Robobank, Philips, Friesland and other transnational enterprises and looked over Food Valley, Wageningen University and Holland Research and Development Center for further learning and exchanging on innovation, corporate culture, precision management and food safety and. In the opinions of analysts, the communication will further intensify Yili's innovation capacities and comprehensive competence and contribute to boosting Yili's all-around innovation and international process.

Mr. Pan Gang stated that China is on its way to build a 'learning-oriented society' and Yili is aiming at creating a 'learning-oriented corporation'. Yili, as an enterprise with an open mentality and a learning spirit, always taking a gradual progressive learning spirit as the power to boost its sustainable and innovative growth. The international exchange event is a significant step for Yili. In the recent years, Yili has firmly clinched key sectors of international diary R&D, integrated its overseas and domestic R&D resources and laid a globalized innovation network covering leading R&D institutions worldwide from a globalized view. Currently, Yili's global innovation network has extended to Asia, Europe, Oceania and America.

This leg of international exchange and learning constitutes an important measure for Yili's internationalization going both in scope and in depth. In the past year, through implementing 'globalized wavering' strategy, Yili has woven a big network encompassing globalized resource systems, innovation systems and marketing systems that its global strategic pattern is initially finished.

As the largest dairy producer with the fullest product-lines in China, Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co., Ltd has been providing the healthy and nutritional dairy products for years. And Yili is the unique dairy producer that has served both the Olympic Games and the World Expo in China. In 2014, Yili realized the total revenue of RMB 54.436 billion Yuan with net profit amounting to RMB 4.167 billion Yuan, ranking No. 1 in Chinese diary industry. Yili ranked among the Top 10 companies in Rabobank's 2014 global dairy Top 20 Report, it is the only Asian dairy enterprise that listed on the global Top 10.

SOURCE Yili Group