Revenue growth, operating profit decline, ordinary profit decline, and sharp decline in profit attributable to owners of parent for the cumulative second quarter of the 71st fiscal year

「Against this backdrop, amid higher costs for materials such as raw materials and auxiliary materials, electricity and fuel, and logistics freight, as well as the impact of foreign exchange rates, both in Japan and at overseas subsidiaries, consolidated net sales for the first half of the current fiscal year were ¥33,003 million, up 4.2% year on year. Operating profit was ¥880 million, down 8.5%, ordinary profit was ¥327 million, down 53.8%, due mainly to an increase in foreign exchange losses compared with the same period of the previous year, and quarterly net income attributable to owners of the parent was ¥73 million, down 84.7%.」