In the Living Essentials Group, we provide solutions for creating affluent lives in fields related to food, clothing and housing. We develop businesses that support the daily lives of consumers.

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Directly Managed by Group CEO

• Next Generation Business Development

The Living Essentials Group focuses its activities in the fields of clothing, food and home-oriented living, including the medical field and use of media, and anticipates the demands of consumers and works to provide the goods and services that consumers wish for promptly and whenever needed. In areas from material procurement to the consumer market, we trade in products including foods, clothing, paper, packaging materials, cement, construction materials, and medical materials and provide various services.
Our strength as a group is that we conduct well-balanced business throughout our value chains, extending from the upstream sourcing of materials to the downstream retail and foodservice businesses. By further reinforcing the Living Essentials Group's comprehensive abilities through business investments and affiliates in Japan and overseas, we provide consumers with the kinds of solutions that can further enrich their lives, and in this fashion make a significant contribution to society. Our business group deals in products and services that consumers frequently come into contact with during their daily lives, and as such we place the utmost consideration on environmental issues and the provision of "safe and reliable" food products.

With the economic growth and expanding population of the emerging countries and biofuel demand on the rise, the global supply-demand balance for primary commodities such as agricultural resources and plantation resources is undergoing a major change and competition in the area of resource procurement is intensifying. Contrastingly, the global economy is rapidly deteriorating and uncertainty abounds in the consumer markets that the Living Essentials Group participates in.
Although the business fields in which the Living Essentials Group operates are caught up in this stringent business environment, its strengths lie in developing operations so as to ensure a proper balance throughout the value chain from upstream to downstream. Through measures such as the further expansion of its primary commodity procurement capabilities and further strengthening of its earnings base by improving logistics and services, the Living Essentials Group aims to achieve sustainable growth by aggressively promoting its business in promising growth markets overseas.