Hello everyone, this is Iori Ishikawa from the Manufacturing and Sales Department.

This time, we will be introducing you to the 29th Ark Tategamori Charity Pork Show.

Every year at the Charity Pork Show, we welcome our business partners and have them chat with all Ark Group employees while eating food made with their company's products, and enjoy entertainment and an auction.

This year's entertainment was a game of guessing what was inside a box, and both the client team and the employee team were able to guess the contents fairly easily, making it a close contest and very exciting.

And then there was the main event, the charity auction. The items on offer were our own vegetables, eggs, ham and sausages, and meat. Both our business partners and employees participated enthusiastically and with great enthusiasm, and I was pleased to think to myself, "It was worth all the preparation."

This was my first time being a member of the Charity Pork Show Executive Committee. The preparations were hard and the day itself was hectic, but I feel proud knowing that the donations raised through the charity will be used to support the Ashinaga Foundation, the Ichinoseki Social Welfare Council, and Ofunato City's forest fire recovery efforts. I hope that another fun Charity Pork Show will be held next year.

Thank you to all of you who participated.