How MÜNZING, Meiji and DSV are harnessing Singapore’s connectivity to scale across the region

Global companies across industries are choosing Singapore for its strong physical, digital and trade links to global markets. Coupled with world-class logistics infrastructure across air, sea, and land, our connectivity gives businesses the confidence to expand their operations using Singapore as a regional hub and control tower managing cross-border flows.

Strategic location with outsized physical, digital and trade connectivity

Sited at the intersection of major trade hubs, Singapore offers easy access to Southeast Asia and Asia-Pacific, which is home to 60 per cent of the world’s population¹ today. It has one of the world’s busiest airports for international air cargo, and the world’s leading container port, connecting major shipping lines to more than 600 ports worldwide. Developments such as the upcoming Changi Airport Terminal 5, capacity expansions at Tuas Port, and cross-border initiatives like the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone will provide more options for companies seeking to strengthen their supply chains in Asia.

Singapore’s Digital Economy Agreements facilitate secure and seamless digital trade, and MNCs also benefit from Singapore’s extensive network of 29 Free Trade Agreements that cover over 85% of global GDP. This increased market access enables businesses to build resilience, diversify customer bases and supply chains, and reduce trade barriers.

MÜNZING’s Asia-Pacific HQ for specialty chemicals

In 2025, German specialty chemicals company MÜNZING established its first office in Singapore – an Asia-Pacific headquarters supported by a nearby warehouse to tap on the country’s world-class logistics and financial hub services.

Singapore was chosen for its strong intellectual property protection, pro-innovation ecosystem, and connectivity to Southeast Asia, Greater China, India, Japan and Australia. Shorter lead times and more reliable supply chains enable MÜNZING to offer faster delivery and technical support to customers in Asia for its specialty additives, which are used to improve the performance of materials for industries from paints and coatings, construction, industrial fluids to wood and food processing.

Within its first year, MÜNZING’s Singapore headquarters expanded beyond supply chain management and customer relations functions to include sales, customer service, and strengthened regional R&D and technical support.

Proximity to customers has enabled faster troubleshooting, application-driven innovation, and quicker product development cycles, while Singapore’s deep talent pool has helped MÜNZING to attract strong technical and commercial expertise.

MÜNZING has also expanded its warehouse capacity in Singapore from 500 square metres to a larger facility housing around 1,000 pallets, enhancing inventory management, supply chain resilience and order fulfilment times for Southeast Asia, while reducing reliance on long-distance shipments from Europe.

Looking ahead, the company plans to continue scaling its operations here, including further warehouse expansions and deploying innovations developed in Singapore to global markets. With strong links to regional customers, distributors, research institutions and sustainability initiatives, Singapore remains central to MÜNZING’s strategy to deepen innovation, enhance supply-chain resilience, and support long-term growth in the region.
 

Meiji’s regional hub in Singapore for next-generation Food & Beverage (F&B) innovation

Meiji is among Japan’s leading food manufacturers with a wide range of confectionery, dairy and nutritional products. When the Meiji Group set out to strengthen its presence in Southeast Asia, Singapore emerged as the natural choice for the company to efficiently import raw materials, export finished products and reach international customers. In 2025, Meiji established its regional headquarters (RHQ) overseeing its four entities in Southeast Asia.

The Singapore RHQ builds on Meiji’s longstanding presence in Singapore. Meiji Seika Singapore was set up over 50 years ago as the company’s first overseas venture. From Singapore, popular confectionery products such as Chocorooms, Hello Panda and Yan Yan are produced and exported to more than 40 markets² worldwide.

Within months of establishing its RHQ in Singapore, Meiji began harmonising frameworks for its regional subsidiaries across functions such as human resources to improve efficiency and long-term talent management. The Singapore hub also handles regional sales and marketing activities, manufacturing, R&D and quality control competencies, including Halal certification. New products, such as the Halal-certified “Hello Panda 30% Less Sugar” product launched in April 2026, were developed in Singapore and will be launched in other markets.

Meiji is also leveraging Singapore’s Industry Transformation Map for the food manufacturing sector to grow its health and nutritional product categories across Southeast Asia. With EDB’s facilitation, Meiji is exploring collaborations with other food manufacturing players in Singapore to drive local product development and better understand consumer tastes and preferences.

DSV’s RedLion2 – Singapore’s largest and first positive energy logistics facility

Singapore’s connectivity and world-class logistics ecosystem allow goods to move quickly, reliably, and predictably across ships, planes, trucks and warehouses, translating to faster delivery and lower operating costs. This is why logistics giants like DSV, Ceva Logistics, SATS, Nippon Express and Maersk have recently established and expanded their warehouses here to serve the region’s advanced manufacturing needs, including high-value industries like semiconductors and pharmaceuticals.

In July 2025, DSV opened RedLion2, Singapore’s largest solar-powered and first positive energy logistics hub in Tampines LogisPark, located around a 10-minute drive from Changi Airport. Today, RedLion2 is fully occupied, handling both raw materials and finished goods for global export, including to major markets across Asia-Pacific.

Designed with efficiency and sustainability in mind, RedLion2 features cutting-edge systems like shuttle robots and Autonomous Mobile Robots for seamless storage, retrieval and cargo processing. This builds on DSV’s pioneering digitalisation efforts, including Singapore’s first 5G-enabled warehouse digital twin at the first Red Lion facility. In addition, RedLion2 is fitted with 4,455 solar panels, generating 15% more energy than it consumes.

RedLion2 also features an Innovation Sandbox, facilitating collaborations with local SMEs, research institutions, and technology players on emerging logistics technologies. For example, an ongoing partnership modularises key logics from DSV to help SMEs overcome common challenges such as bottleneck analysis and resource optimisation. DSV has also worked with local tech specialists to co-develop automation solutions such as AI-enabled robotic arms, which have potential to be scaled across sites.

DSV, which has its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore, serves as the first hub in the company’s global network to deploy solutions including a first-of-its-kind 0% humidity chamber for handling sensitive tech hardware, among other value-added solutions across diagnostic, repair and precision logistics for electronics and semiconductor components such as chips and wafers.

Accelerate your business expansion with Singapore’s connectivity

Companies looking to expand in Asia are turning to Singapore as a trusted trade hub that is plugged into the global economy, with robust tech and logistics infrastructure and advanced storage facilities to support the efficient flow of goods to global markets.

Brands such as Pandora, Airtrunk and Enclustra have also established their headquarters here recently to access emerging markets, cutting-edge innovation, and a skilled workforce.

Join the growing ecosystem of global leaders choosing Singapore as their business hub, to unlock new opportunities in a dynamic and growing Southeast Asia.

Footnotes: 

¹ United Nations Population Fund, Asia-Pacific 2026: https://asiapacific.unfpa.org/en/topics/population-trends-9

²  Source: メイジセイカ・シンガポール Meiji Seika（Singapore）Pte. Ltd. | グループ会社紹介 | 株式会社 明治 - Meiji Co., Ltd.