We will firmly implement a New Five-year Long-term Management Plan to evolve from being a natural seasonings specialist to a comprehensive seasonings manufacturer in pursuit of adding greater value to the Company.
Representative Director and Chairman of the Board Kineo Okada	Representative Director and President Tomoki Tagawa

As natural food innovations proliferate, healthy, safe, natural, and convenient are the key words describing the latest food trends. The same describe the area where we can offer the best of the strengths of Ariake Japan, a leading supplier of natural seasonings derived primarily from chicken and pork.

Ariake Japan has developed, produced, and delivered natural seasonings that are healthy and tasty with natural flavors, holding true to its founding motto of extracting chef-quality tastes from quality ingredients and supplying them to customers at low cost . The Company specializes in offering products for commercial use. We provide the restaurant industry, particularly hotel restaurants, which accounted for 41% of our sales revenues in FY2006, with soup bases and stocks, traditional Japanese broth, and the like for the preparation of Western, Chinese, and Japanese cuisines. We supply the processed food industry, which accounted for 39% of the same, for the production of curries, hams and sausages, and retort foods, as well as boxed meals, ready-to-eat side dishes, and other take-out home-meal replacements. We supply instant noodle producers, who accounted for 19%, with soup bases.

The food industry is considered a market that has matured and is increasingly likely to shrink with a declining birth rate as the population ages. With a view to ensuring its continuous sustainable growth over the years ahead amid intensifying competition, Ariake Japan has initiated its New Five-year Long-term Management Plan to expand operations beyond the specialized production of natural seasonings to become a comprehensive seasonings manufacturer. The challenge we are tackling is to stimulate the domestic market in Japan and to aggressively develop markets worldwide. We have also stepped up capital investments in the construction of new and additional production facilities both in Japan and overseas. Our goal when the Long-term Management Plan has completed its final year in FY2009 is to achieve consolidated net sales of 38.8 billion yen (192% of the result in FY2004) and consolidated ordinary income of 11.4 billion yen (213% of the result in FY2004).