January 17, 2005

Construction of Nippon Cookery Shimada Plant

Nippon Cookery Co., Ltd. (President: Toshihiko Nonaka), a fully-owned subsidiary of Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd. (President & CEO: Naoya Kakizoe), has newly constructed the Nippon Cookery Shimada Plant in Shimada-Shi, Shizuoka Prefecture.
As a plant dedicated to and in compliance with the vendor reorganization plan of Lawson, Inc., Shimada Plant will supply packed lunches, rice balls, sushi, prepared foods and salads to about 200 shops of Lawson throughout Shizuoka Prefecture and in some parts of Mikawa region in Aichi Prefecture.
Shimada Plant is a cutting-edge plant in this field, equipped with integrated air conditioning and process management systems, spanning from raw materials to products, and it can be expanded to flexibly adapt to the evolution of cooking techniques in the years to come. The Plant was designed with the following concepts in mind:

(1)	HACCP-compliant plant which can provide safe products;
(2)	Environmentally-friendly plant (reduction of CO2, recycling of resources, active adoption of IH equipment);
(3)	Energy-saving plant (durability, introduction of energy-saving equipment, process management system);
(4)	Plant designed to serve as a food supply base in the event of an earthquake disaster (adoption of quake-absorbing
	structure especially as an anti-earthquake measure, reinforcement of lifeline backup functions); and
(5)	Expansible plant that allows for future expansion of functions.

Having completed Shimada Plant, Nippon Cookery Co., Ltd. now has nine plants, including the existing two plants in the Kanto region, one plant in the Chukyo region, two plants in the Kansai region, two plants in the Kyushu region and one joint-venture plant in the Hokuriku region.
Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd. ("Nissui") is aggressively expanding its chilled foods business as one of its core businesses under its medium-term management plan dubbed the Toward Global Links (TGL) plan. The TGL plan is aimed at creating value and fulfilling customers' diverse needs by reinforcing and enhancing its global production and procurement functions, as well as its locally-oriented processing and selling functions focusing on Japan, the United States and Europe.
In particular, the enhancement of Nissui's locally-oriented chilled foods business through convenience store (CVS) vendor operations will improve its ability to adapt to changes in the domestic market and build a strong management structure.
Nissui is committed to developing its vendor operations to win customers' strong support and fulfill their diverse needs, through its advanced quality assurance, technical capabilities and product development.