Medium-Term Business Plan Value UpX
2025-2028
Four-year plan of preparation to become a global top provider of oils & fats solutions
2021-2024
Value Up+
2025-2028
Value UpX
(Final year of the plan)
7.0%
8.0% or more
(Final year of the plan)
4.6%
6.0% or more
(Final year of the plan)
¥19.2
billion
¥28.0
billion
(Final year of the plan)
3.6%
5.0% or more
(4-year cumulative total)
¥31.6
billion
¥100.0
billion
(4-year cumulative total)
¥48.4
billion
¥90.0
billion
Key pillars of Value UpX
1.
Three-tiered strategy
Growth strategy
Core strategy
Fundamental strategy
2.
ROIC management
Achieve a virtuous cycle toward growth by improving return on capital
3.
Investments to enhance functions to support strategies
R&D, Supply chain,
Digital & IT, Sustainability
4.
Human resource management
Build a strong and resilient human resources base (driving force for business continuity and growth)
Three-tiered strategy that drives growth
Core strategy
A growth driver of Value UpX
Maximize our ability to create oils & fats solutions and expand our operational areas and domains
Confectionery fats
Create and expand the value chain of traceable and high-functional confectionery fats
- Develop and expand sales channels to capture changing demand for confectionery fats resulting from declining cacao yields
- Proactively make capital investments and develop technologies to expand sales of CBEs and other products
Global market share of CBEs (volume)
FY2024
6%
FY2028
15% or more
Fine chemicals
Achieve profit growth through expansion of global market share
- Expand sales of specialty oils at a rate that exceeds market growth, particularly in the growth market of Asia
- Establish bases, enhance technical support systems, and strengthen relationships with local partners in target regions to expand sales globally
Global market share of cosmetic oils (value)
FY2024
6%
FY2028
10% or more
Functional oils & fats and functional oil-based materials
Expand our operational domains and create diverse values
- Expand sales of functional oils & fats through the pursuit of user benefits
- Expand operational domains of functional oil-based materials
Sales of functional oils & fats and functional oil-based materials
FY2024
¥3.0 billion
FY2028
¥7.0 billion
or more
Create value primarily through a lipid-nutrition-based approach to health issues
Edible oils for household use
Increase sales and steadily accumulate profits from products that help consumers improve their quality of life
- Increase the sales composition of marketing-based functional products that satisfy latent consumer demand
- Highlight the product value related to physical condition
- Provide good flavor, convenience, and ease of use
- Reduce environmental impact
Domestic market size of edible oils for household use
FY2024
¥181.2 billion
FY2028
¥190.0 billion or more
ROIC management
Achieve a virtuous cycle toward growth through ROIC management
Investments to enhance functions to support strategies
- Create value by advancing and exploring technologies
- Further advance the core business by capitalizing on existing markets and capabilities, and explore new opportunities by acquiring new capabilities and developing new markets
- Build and strengthen supply chains
- Build and increase the strength of supply chains capable of traceable and highly sustainable raw material procurement
- Restructure highly efficient and sustainable production and logistics networks
- Achieve digital innovation to accelerate growth
- Strengthen the value chains that drive business growth
- Develop infrastructure for strengthening supply chains
- Create a mechanism to support sustainability and growth
- Protect global environment and resources, and respect human rights
- Protect global environment, recycle resources, and respect human rights―the very core of the Group’s business
- Build a business model to achieve a decarbonized and recycling-oriented society
Human resource management
- Build a strong and resilient human resources base (driving force for business continuity and growth)
- Build a human resources base as a driving force for business continuity and growth, premised on addressing social issues such as labor shortages and changes in the younger generation’s views on employment
- Build and manage a talent portfolio for creating markets, and executing global and digital innovation strategies
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