Confectionery manufacturing industry

...For the history and current state of Japanese confectionery since the Muromachi period, please refer to "Japanese confectionery," for the history of Western confectionery, and for each of them, please refer to the items under "Cakes." [Editorial Department]
[Confectionery manufacturing industry]
According to the 1980 Statistics of Industry, the confectionery and bread manufacturing industry in Japan has 18,960 establishments and a shipment value of approximately 3,065 billion yen, making it a large industry that accounts for 23% and 14% of the food manufacturing industry, respectively. The confectionery and bread manufacturing industry includes bread manufacturing (shipment value share 30%), fresh confectionery manufacturing (25%), biscuit and dried confectionery manufacturing (9%), rice confectionery manufacturing (10%), and other confectionery and bread manufacturing (chocolate, chewing gum, candy, etc.) (27%) (for information on bread, please refer to the entry for that product).

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "confectionery manufacturing industry" is listed below.

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…なお，室町期以降の日本の菓子の歴史と現状については〈和菓子〉，西欧の菓子の歴史については〈洋菓子〉，その個々については〈ケーキ〉以下の諸項目を参照されたい。【編集部】
［菓子製造業］
　《工業統計表》(1980)によると，日本の菓子･パン製造業は，事業所数が1万8960，出荷額が約3兆0650億円であり，食品製造業のおのおの23％，14％を占める大きな産業である。菓子･パン製造業には，パン製造業(出荷額シェア30％)，生菓子製造業(25％)，ビスケット類･干菓子類製造業(9％)，米菓子製造業(10％)，その他の菓子･パン(チョコレート，チューインガム，あめ菓子など)製造業(27％)がある(〈パン〉についてはその項目を参照されたい)。…

※「菓子製造業」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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