Maxvalu Hokkaido Co., Ltd. Reports Unaudited Earnings Results for the Half Year Ended August 31, 2019

MAXVALU HOKKAIDO Co., Ltd. is a Japan-based company mainly engaged in supermarket business, which mainly sells groceries and daily necessities, and related business. The Company is engaged in the supply of products including private brand (PB) products, the outsourcing of credit collection services such as AEON cards and WAON cards, the rental of store real estate, the leasing, store maintenance and supply of store materials with the installation of an automatic teller machine (ATM) in the store, the outsourcing of vending machines, as well as logistics and outsourcing business. The stores are broadly divided into two business categories: food supermarkets such as Maxvalu and discount stores such as The Big.