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However, the domestic living environment remains challenging, marked by soaring rice prices caused by last summer’s rice shortage, which drew significant public attention, as well as continued increases in the prices of meat and other ingredients. Meanwhile, there has yet to be a substantial rise in income to offset these cost increases.

In addition, there is as of yet no end in sight to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, launched on February 24, 2022, and although the conflict in the Middle East has temporarily entered a state of ceasefire, the embers have not completely died out and the tragic situation continues.

Also, while new leaders have been elected both in Japan and abroad, the future remains unclear.

Amid these circumstances, we have adopted the management policy of “working toward a bright future,” and we have remained committed to various measures aimed at “becoming a company chosen by the future,” our vision for our 60th anniversary in 2025. We intend to further accelerate this trend in 2025 as well.

By “the future,” we mean “our future customers,” “our future colleagues,” and “society in the future.”

For “our future customers,” we have continued to improve our existing business formats in various ways. One Dining opened ABURIYA arata KITTE OSAKA in July 2024 under a new business format, and in March 2025, we will open Wabi, a Japanese beef kaiseki-style restaurant, in Grand Green. In December 2024, we opened the One Calbi Hikari no Mori branch in Kumamoto, a new area for us, and we plan to open our first overseas all-you-can-eat yakiniku restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on July 1, 2025. In April, we will also be exhibiting at the Osaka Restaurant Management Association Pavilion at the Kansai Osaka Expo. Dairiki opened the Dairiki IY Kuki branch on November 15, 2024, the first branch opened in the Kanto region in the last 30 years. We plan to launch a new “Yakiniku for one + bento” format at the same branch around May this year, as we continue to flexibly combine business formats.

In these new business formats and areas, we are committed to gaining the support of future customers.

For “our future colleagues,” we launched a personnel compensation system capable of adapting to diverse values while simultaneously ensuring both job satisfaction and work comfort. We will continue to create a diverse range of career path options.

For “society in the future,” we work to develop and promote the type of SDG management that will be essential in business activities worldwide moving forward, and we have applied for the SDGs Award. We have also been certified as an Excellent Corporation for Health Management for five consecutive years, and we are aiming to be certified as a White 500 company in the future.

To further refine how we engage in these initiatives and become a “company that is chosen by the future,” we have decided to merge three companies and started afresh as 1&D Co., Ltd. on March 1 of this year.

Our mission to realize our vision

We aim to redefine the unique values of Japan and bring happiness to people in Japan and around the world, and through a variety of measures under our new organizational structure, we hope to make this a truly dazzling year for everyone involved with 1&D.

We have no means of predicting the business environment that will surround us in the future. Nevertheless, it is still possible to create the future that we want.

Gratitude: A dazzling past that we can look back upon with gratitude for the connections that we have formed up to this point.

Awareness: A dazzling present moment in which we are able to give recognition, receive praise, and realize how wonderful our everyday lives are, thanks to chance encounters in our routine lives.

Excitement: A future in which we can encounter dazzling wonders that will bring us joy.

2025 will be an extremely important year for us in creating a bright future.

This year, we will remain as committed as ever to achieving our goals. We look forward to and greatly appreciate your unwavering support.