Development of New Services Leveraging Know-How

「Under these circumstances, the group used its experience and expertise to strengthen its initiatives with players across the industries and worked to commercialize them as services.」

「Meanwhile, the group is using its experience and expertise to work with players across the various industries and is striving to commercialize these initiatives as services.」

「Although the group's sales remain under pressure due to COVID-19, it has continued efforts to resolve issues in each business, develop systems for the intermediate distribution industry and systems connecting producers with retailers, and work with players in each industry.」

「The company conducted demonstration tests with various companies to apply its expertise and knowledge concerning the distribution operations for imported produce to the distribution of domestically produced produce. …Through these initiatives, it achieved commercialization as a service.」

「Although some delays from the plan have occurred due to the impact of COVID-19 and other factors, the company will continue advancing multiple new businesses, including building a domestic produce platform, expanding system implementation for group companies of major chain stores through additional Fresh MD system functions, and supporting the development of fresh-produce sections at drugstores.」

「We will pursue several new businesses, including building a domestic produce platform, adding functions to the fresh MD system, introducing the system to group companies of major chain stores where it had not yet been adopted, and supporting the development of fresh-produce sections at drugstores.」

「For the domestic produce distribution platform currently under development, the company is advancing specific tasks with major retailers and intermediary wholesalers, including narrowing down the functions required for the system and proposing new services.」

「The company is preparing to launch multiple new businesses and is working to release, during the current fiscal year, an initiative that uses its supply chain infrastructure to support the implementation of SPA operations in retail. It is also developing a next-generation distribution platform for domestically produced produce to support the company's full-scale entry into the domestic produce market.」

「The company is building a new service model from the retail operator's point of view and plans to launch it during the current fiscal year as an initiative to support the implementation of SPA operations in retail. It is also developing a next-generation distribution platform for domestically produced produce to support the company's full-scale entry into the domestic produce market.」

「As the next new business pillar, the company is working on a business capable of supporting SPA operations on the retail side and building a fresh-produce platform for domestically produced produce, while also preparing to provide the associated contracted services.」

「The company has continued its demonstration tests of a new-format service for drugstores, launched in the previous fiscal year, and the number of stores adopting the service has increased as planned.」

「There have been no material changes in the issues that the Group must address during the cumulative third quarter of the fiscal year.」

「There have been no material changes in the issues that the Group must address during the cumulative second quarter of the fiscal year.」

「There have been no material changes in the issues that the Group must address during the cumulative first quarter of the fiscal year.」

「We will analyze customer issues and the value of our service assets and work to develop new services that contribute to further sales growth.」