Ajinomoto Co Inc (AJINF) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Good evening, everyone. Thank you very much for taking a precious time to attend Ajinomoto's fiscal 2025 first half earnings call. We thank you very much for your time this afternoon. I am Kaji of the IR office. I'll be serving as moderator. Let me first introduce the participants from the company. We have representative executive officer, president and CEO, Mr. Nakamura. Representative executive officer and executive vice president, Mr. Shiragami. Executive Officer and Senior Vice President, General Manager, Corporate Division, Mr. Sasaki. Executive Officer, Senior Vice President, General Manager, Food Products Division, Mr. Masai. Executive Officer, Senior Vice President, General Manager, Bio and Fine Chemicals Division, Mr. Maeda. Executive Officer and Vice President, in charge of Finance and Investor Relations, Mr. Mizutani. Executive Officer, Vice President of Supervision of Frozen Foods, Mr. Kawano. Executive Officer in Charge of Diversity in IHR, Ms. Kayahara. Corporate Executive General Manager, Biopharma Services Department, Bio and Fine Chemicals Division, Mr. Otake. Nine members from the company are present today. For today, at the outset, Mr. Nakamura will explain the overview of the first half results for the year ending March 26, and also the corporate value enhancement initiatives, after which we would like to move on to the Q&A session. We expect to finish the entire meeting in about one hour and 30 minutes. The materials to be used for today's presentation is already posted on the IR information site of our corporate homepage. Please look at them as adequate. Please be advised that this session will be recorded, including all the way to the Q&A session, to be posted on the company's IR site later. Now, without further ado, we would like to begin the ...