We, the Meiji Seika Group, have established a joint-holding company -Meiji Holdings Co., Ltd.- with Meiji Dairies Corporation. Further, we and our partner have successfully integrated our businesses in the new phase and believe that this managerial integration is the best course of action for both companies, as it allows for the optimum utilization of the available management resources and joint-development of a growth strategy and a differentiation strategy by furthering our partnership under the spirit of equality.

Both the companies, Meiji Seika Kaisha, Ltd. (established in 1916) and Meiji Dairies Corporation (established in 1917), are trusted, reliable, and popular brand names that are more than ninety years old. The two companies are among Japan's leading food manufacturers, and trace their origins to the former Meiji Sugar Co., Ltd.. In recent years, we have had many satisfactory partnership ventures including some that involved joint-development. We aim to grow and outdo our global competitors by laying a solid foundation via portfolio expansion and by further improving our competencies and strengths based on the value of the Meiji brand.

At the Meiji Seika Group, we provide "delicious and enjoyable" experiences through our confectionery and food products, and help people lead healthy and enriching lives through our pharmaceuticals and healthcare foods on the basis of our motto, "offering customers delicious, enjoyable, healthy, and reliable food products."

As a leading company, we have striven to produce mouth-watering and enjoyable products in our confectionery business.
We aim to enhance our mainline branded products and develop aggressive marketing strategies to create new value and stimulate demand.

In the healthcare business, we concentrate primarily on five areas - "beauty care and health," "sports and health," "delicious taste and health," "prevention of lifestyle-related illness," and "pasteurization and disinfection" while considering customers' changing life-styles and living environment as well as various needs.

Furthermore, we have promoted various operations with POKKA CORPORATION, with whom we entered into capital and business partnership in January 2008. Some of these operations have been the sale and promotion of beverages through vending machines and the sale of confectionaries. We have taken advantage of the brands of both the companies and will redouble our efforts to create a synergy with each of us in the fields of merchandising, sales, production, and distribution.

In the area of pharmaceuticals, we have been supplying various pharmaceuticals to the world for more than sixty years. Currently, we are making steady progress toward becoming a specialty and generic pharmaceutical company. We will mainly concentrate on developing generic pharmaceuticals as well as new drugs for infectious diseases and the central nervous system. In addition, we will focus on developing agrochemicals and veterinary drugs. In the field of confectionaries and pharmaceuticals, we will aim to actively and aggressively develop our export operations and local production in the overseas markets of America, Asia, and China.

The Meiji Seika Group will spare no efforts to ensure that people view it as a reliable and trustworthy company. We will ensure that we fulfill our corporate social responsibility (CSR) through various means such as ensuring quality assurance and respecting the environment and that we develop a relationship with all stakeholders. In addition, we will endeavor to be a "more competitive and dynamic company" and will challenge ourselves continuously to provide new and valuable products that make our customers happy and enhance their lives further.