Ebara Foods Industry, Inc. authorizes a Buyback Plan.

EBARA Foods Industry, Inc. is a food manufacturing company. The Food segment is engaged in the manufacture and sale of sauce for various meat, such as barbecued meat sauce and chicken sauce; sauce for stew, such as Korean pickled cabbage hot pot sauce, and sauce for vegetables, such as pickle sauce, as well as the manufacture and sale of other food, including curry flakes, konjac and seaweed salads. The segment also involves in the manufacture and sale of soup, such chicken-bone soup and noodle soup. The others business is engaged in the advertising business, temporary staffing business, the operation of warehousing and cargo transportation businesses.