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Prima Meat Packers
Group
Since our foundation,
we have always striven to deliver
great taste and excitement.
The endeavors of Prima Meat Packers Group
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Contributing to Abundant Lives
"We sell what we make."
Prima Meat Packers was the first company in the Japanese meat industry to sell standard Japanese primary cuts of pork, and it developed innovative solutions in distribution channels to strengthen sales as well as manufacturing. The internal company slogan chosen at the time was "We sell what we make. We will sell our Prima brand by ourselves."
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Global-level Food Safety
Ensuring safety and reliability
Prima Meat Packers worked with an overseas quality expert to build a proprietary system of quality management. Under this system, the Company launched a succession of winning products that excelled in quality. The Company then launched a hog farming business, laying the foundation for an integrated system of domestic pork production.
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Products That Evolve with Lifestyles
Building a new management platform
To expand business, Prima Meat Packers built dedicated plants for supplying convenience stores, as well as those for food processing. It also established overseas production sites. The plants in Japan obtained quality assurance certification.
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Bouncing back
Tight cost management
In the early years of this century, we experienced tough business conditions and had to make hard decisions, such as closing down some business locations. Aiming to turn performance around, we tightened cost management. Through such efforts, we have bounced back stronger than ever.
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Toward Further Growth
Making the mission a reality
As consumer needs continue to diversify, Prima Meat Packers continues to expand its lineup and invest in initiatives to unlock further growth. These initiatives include building a new food processing plant, expanding the hog farming business, penetrating overseas markets, and transforming workflows.
Know by Numbers Prima Meat Packers Group
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Year founded
1931 -
Number of group companies
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Consolidated number of employees
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Japan
14,542 -
Overseas
1,419
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※Number of Group Companies as of December 2, 2025
※Consolidated employee numbers as of March 31, 2025
Business Strategy
Processed Foods Business
Using our market dominance to navigate a time of transition
Using retail partnerships to leverage our market dominance
In fiscal 2023, Koukun Sausage topped the pork sausage category in number of units sold, according to point-of-sale data by KSP-SP.*1 Then, in fiscal 2024, it became number 1 in the market category for ham, sausage, and bacon products, according to an SCI consumer panel by Intage.*2
These successive number-1 results prove that the Prima Meat Packers brand has attracted greater awareness and confidence. Volume sellers are increasingly nominating us as a category captain, meaning that they give us a big role in determining where the products appear in the store and in designing in-store promotions. We will continue to build on the momentum generated by our number-1 position and work all the more earnestly with retailers to build win-win partnerships.
*1 Source: Point-of-sale data by KSP-SP (number of units sold in the pork sausage category between April 2023 and March 2024)
*2 Source: Results of SCI consumer panel (a national consumer panel survey provided by Intage) on the amount consumers spend on ham, sausage, and bacon products between April 2024 and March 2025.
Full automation and streamlining in view of future labor shortages
On the production side, a challenge we have faced is Japan's shrinking workforce. We are addressing this problem by using AI and other technological innovations to automate production technology and increasing efficiency over the medium- and long-term. This strategy involves installing automated machinery that makes decisions by itself. It also involves using digital data to improve the quality of management processes. These actions will make our production systems more sustainable. Alongside this, we are bolstering our organizational clout by enhancing training, upskilling employees, and improving employee retention.
The Japanese market is dwindling as the population shrinks. To offset this risk, we are turning to overseas markets. That is, we are stepping up global expansion by founding overseas subsidiaries and exporting products. While doing so, we are also studying country-level standards for product compositions and quality and laying the organizational groundwork for selling our products in more overseas markets.
Fresh Meat Business
Growing the fresh meat business by strengthening the business foundations and improving profitability
Backcasting from our centenary six years ahead with a view to achieving sustained growth
For some years now, the fresh meat business has contended with high prices in overseas meat markets and exchange rate fluctuation with the weak yen. Conditions remain tough as ever, with record summer temperatures impeding productivity and with pork prices in Japan fluctuating dramatically. Consumer preferences have shifted from beef to pork and from pork to poultry, prompting a shakeup of sales locations and products in the distribution sector. It is therefore more important than ever to adapt to the many market changes.
Despite these headwinds, Prima Meat Packers's fresh meat business performed well. We increased sales volume such that net sales reached \144.2 billion, a 6.3% increase from the previous year's level. We also achieved \1.2 billion in operating profit, 42.8% up from the previous year's level.
Committing to even greater growth and profitability, we have set the following targets for fiscal 2025: \145 billion in net sales, \2.4 billion in operating profit, and 1.7% in operating margin. We are now underway with structural reform and strategic investment in order to achieve these targets.
In 2031, we will celebrate our centenary. Having envisaged the kind of organization we want to be in that year and backcasted from that future vision to the present, we now commit to putting the fresh meat business on the path of sustained growth.