First, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to our shareholders and investors, for your continued support.
This is to inform you of our Company’s Consolidated Business Result for the 46th fiscal year (the period from October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024). On this occasion, we would like to say a few words.
As for this period, the global economy remained unstable due to prolonged geopolitical issues in Europe and the Middle East. On the other hand, we implemented strategic measures aimed at expanding our business scale, and business activities progressed favorably.
In particular, on the sales front, we strengthened our proposal abilities by linking sales information from each country, and endeavored to increase and strengthen contact with customers by proactively exhibiting at major exhibitions. Furthermore, in order to surely capture market needs, we focused on developments, such as new machine models for the beverage container field, which is our strategic area, and rolling out "Vision 1," a molding machine control and monitoring system that helps customers improve their productivity.
As a result, orders received, order backlog and sales for the fiscal year all reached record highs, and operating profit also significantly exceeded that of the previous fiscal year. Following such a situation, the dividend for this fiscal year has been decided to be 150 yen per share, increased by 30 yen from the previous fiscal year, and paid from 2nd December. We hope our shareholders and investors will look forward to our Company’s further growth, and we would greatly appreciate your continued support and encouragement.
Going forward, the demand for our products based on the living necessities is prospected to show steady growth, and we will strive to further expand our business scale with our outstanding technology and sales strategy.
We also recognize that responding to social issues such as climate change is an important responsibility for us. We will continue to promote environmental initiatives throughout our value chain, and aim to realize a sustainable society through our products, which have strengths in environment-conscious technologies.
We hope our shareholders and investors will look forward to our Company’s further growth, and we would greatly appreciate your continued support and encouragement.