Sales business: lower revenue and profit (strong domestic delivery and focus on high-value-added products overseas)

「Against this backdrop, the domestic sales subsidiaries reported slightly lower revenue and profit. Although sales to consumer cooperatives and other home-delivery customers remained strong, sales to industrial catering customers failed to grow. The overseas sales subsidiaries reported lower revenue but higher profit, as low-margin overseas export sales declined and the subsidiaries focused on selling high-value-added products to supermarkets and other retailers. As a result, sales to external customers were ¥5,570.769 million, down 2.6% year on year, and segment profit was ¥285.043 million, down 7.4%.」