FY2018 Q1 Trading Segment Product Trends

「By product category, food sales increased as processed foods, sugar, frozen and chilled products, confectionery and alcoholic beverages all performed steadily. In food-service products, flour sales declined because lower selling prices outweighed an increase in sales volume, while sales of starch, fats and oils, and food-service ingredients all increased, leaving sales broadly unchanged from the year-earlier period. In feed and livestock, sales declined as sales volumes of feed to pig and poultry producers remained sluggish, while both the number of hogs collected and meat sales remained weak in the livestock business. Rice sales increased because sales volumes of both household and food-service milled rice rose, and selling prices also remained firm.」