Over the past 30 days, its share price has jumped 41.2% from RM9.40.The FBM KLCI was up 1.45 points or 0.09% to 1,630.24. Ajinomoto is a food and seasoning manufacturer which is well-known for its Ajinomoto Umami Seasoning, a world-renowned brand of monosodium glutamate (MSG). Umami is described as savoury, and is the fifth basic taste apart from sweet, sour, bitter and salty. Other brands under its belt are seasoning products Tumix, Seri-Aji, Aji-Shio, Aji-Mix, and sweetener PalSweet. There were 260 gainers, 387 losers and 346 counters unchanged.Bursa Securities had also advised investors to take note of Ajinomoto's reply to the UMW query when making their investment decisions.

Source: thestar May 22, 2016 23:33 UTC