Lake Ikebaya has been damaged by typhoons in Hokkaido last year and the effects of poor potatoes have been disrupted, and we are currently unsuspending sales of five products of potato chips.

About this, Takashi Koike, Chairman of Takashimaya store, said on Tuesday a new product release, in addition to the fact that the crop yield of potatoes produced in Kyushu exceeded expectations, Hokkaido The planting of the product was going smoothly, and I mentioned that only raw materials could be secured steadily.

In addition, the company can restore four products in the next month among the five paused products at present, and can almost restore the production and sales system of potato chips We revealed our outlook.

In addition, based on the lesson learned at Lake Ikebaya, we are promoting efforts to increase the number of farmers growing potatoes in the Kyushu district to disperse the production areas.

In relation to potato chips, "Calbee" also stopped selling 15 items in April, but we have resumed selling 13 items so far, and by the beginning of next month, Except for 1 product, we are going to resume everything.