Notice Regarding Dividends of Surplus (Dividend Increase)

May 11, 2026

Company Name: House Foods Group Inc.

Representative: Hiroshi Urakami, President

(Securities Code: 2810, TSE Prime Market)

Contact: Eiki Miyake, General Manager, Public & Investors Relations Division

(Tel: +81-3-5211-6039)

House Foods Group Inc. ("the Company") hereby announces that its Board of Directors resolved at a meeting held on May 11, 2026 to submit a proposal to the 80th Annual General Meeting of Shareholders to be held on June 24, 2026, regarding the dividends of surplus with March 31, 2026 as the record date. Details are as follows.

1. Details of dividends of surplus

   	Amount decided	Most recent dividend forecast (Announced on May 8, 2025)	Results for the previous fiscal year (fiscal year ended March 31, 2025)
   Record date	March 31, 2026	Same as left	March 31, 2025
   Dividend per share	46.00 yen	24.00 yen	24.00 yen
   Total dividends	4,194 million yen	-	2,271 million yen
   Effective date	June 25, 2026	-	June 26, 2025
   Dividend source	Retained earnings	-	Retained earnings

2. Reason

The Group recognizes that one of the key management issues is the return of profits to shareholders and its basic policy of profit distribution is to set the total return ratio at 40% or higher, and to continuously pay an annual dividend of at least 46 yen as a stable dividend. Under the Eighth Medium-term Business Plan, the Group will pursue treasury share acquisitions of 15 billion yen funded by reductions in cross-shareholders, aiming to improve the total return ratio to at least 50%, and during the two-year period from the fiscal year ending March 31, 2025 to the fiscal year ending March 31, 2026, the company has already completed treasury share acquisitions worth a cumulative 16 billion yen.

Given the progress made under Eighth Medium-term Business Plan and in order to return more profits to our shareholders, we have decided to pay a year-end dividend of 46 yen per share, an increase of 22 yen from the initial year-end dividend forecast of 24 yen per share, to make a total annual dividend 70 yen per share, including an interim dividend of 24 yen per share. This matter will be officially decided at the annual general meeting of shareholders to be held in June 2026.

In addition, at the meeting of the Board of Directors held today, the Company resolved to change the basic policy for profit distribution. For details of the policy change, please refer to the "Notice of Change in Basic

Policy on Profit Distribution (Introduction of DOE Indicator)" disclosed today by the Company. Based on this policy, for the next fiscal year, the Group expects to pay an annual dividend of 100 yen (an interim dividend of 50 yen and a year-end dividend of 50 yen), representing an increase of 30 yen.