As an important new business to be enhanced under QUALITY 300, we are promoting the expansion of our sales capabilities in the agricultural products category. Recognizing agricultural products as a a category where we pursue significant growth, we are thus striving to expand and improve this business by collaborating with Naturalart Inc., an agriculture venture, and TOKYO SEIKA Co., Ltd., the biggest wholesaler of fruits and vegetables in Japan. These partnerships will allow us to better manage the procurement, planning and sales of agricultural products.

We will strive to enhance our procurement and sales capabilities in the agricultural products category and establish a unique agricultural products business. In response to customers who need us to deliver a full lineup, we will enhance our supply chain consolidation capability with the aim of achieving the overall optimization of distribution systems for agricultural products.