March 07, 2008 Corporate strategy conference

We have raised our financial targets for the final year of Phase III to 6 trillion yen for net sales (up from 5.5 trillion yen) and to over 600 billion yen for net income (up from over 550 billion yen). These revisions are based on the higher than anticipated growth we achieved both for sales and profits from 2005 to last year, as well as a feeling that we needed to set our targets higher to enter the ranks of the top 100 global corporations for 2010 based on primary management indicators.